Dynamic technology company with expertise in developing information products that harness semantic technology to solve global problems

Here at Kudos we have a very strong and solid team giving us all the right skills to make Kudos Knowledge perfectly situated to provide global solutions with success. We have a very strong technical team comprising semantic experts and technical gurus with great leadership and product direction from our Product Director and Chief Technical Director. On the business side we have harnessed the extensive experience of our Managing Director for commercialisation and business strategy.

Kim Little – CEO

Kim Little, BA Hons, MSc Dist, is Kudos Knowledge’s Chief Executive Officer.

Kim is a natural leader who has great enthusiasm, personality and a deep belief in building his vision. Kim feels that it is essential to deliver powerful information products that harness the power of semantic technology to meet the needs of the next generation of internet users who expect nothing less than web 3.0 power.

Kim’s background is in leading and managing large development teams and he has extensive experience successfully achieving this with both a dynamic and agile approach to leadership. He has taken care to carefully select the right attributes in the management team to ensure that the company direction is consistent with growth, sustainability and success.

Kim’s professional experience includes working with global publishers and publishing agents to successfully deliver a pioneering worldwide royalties system to handle unprecedented royalty models for authors with global reach. Kim has also managed the delivery of projects involving a number of Australian local government councils. Kim has worked in technical leadership and project management roles for UK government agencies, including the Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) as well as Command and House Papers (C & H) as part of the UK government initiative towards the power of information review. Kim also spent almost 2 years at Netcat.biz as a project manager where he successfully delivered a range of projects.

Lee Sinclair – Product Director

Lee Sinclair, B.Bus, Grad.Dip E.Bus is Kudos Knowledge’s Product Director.

Lee is a creative visionary with a love of technology, e-business and the web. He has worked in this industry for over 15 years and is incredibly enthusiastic about embracing successful product planning, positioning and development. This enables him to continuously bring superior and differentiated products to market – ones that deliver real world benefits and superior value. Lee is also responsible for ensuring directional harmony between the technical and business teams.

In terms of professional experience, Lee has held several positions and worked for a variety of companies. Lee has worked in product development positions working with the BBC, Channel 4 (UK), ING, Telstra, and Lloyd TSB. Lee then spent almost 5 years working for Netcat.biz (web content and transformation software) as product manager. Under his product development leadership several products were successfully released.

Lee has been involved on a considerable project with Enterprise level solution providers such as Objective (content, collaboration and process management software).

Finally, under Lee’s leadership major products have been successfully released for the following agencies or companies: ING, Telstra, AANRO (Australian Agriculture and Natural Research Online); Opera Australia, Civil Aviation and Safety Authority, Brisbane City Council (BCC), Adelaide City Council, and Sullivan Nicolades.

Barry Earsman – Technical Director

Barry Earsman, Binformatics, PGDipCogSci, is Kudos Knowledge’s Technical Director.

Barry is passionate about overseeing the development of new technologies with a particular focus on the development of semantic analysis as essential to the forthcoming next generation of the internet with web 3.0.

Barry has a background in artificial intelligence and cognitive science as well as having done extensive research into neural networks, A-life and complexity theory. Barry has over 20 years experience working as a lead programmer as well as heading up numerous R&D departments.

Barry is responsible for overseeing R&D activities and formulating long term technical visions and strategies that use technology integral to products being sold to customers/clients.

Barry has worked on fraud detection and management software solutions for several of the UK’s local authorities. He has worked on content, collaboration and process management software with Objective, and web content and transformation software with Netcat.biz, where he spent over 5 years heading up the R&D department and worked as a lead programmer.

Barry has been responsible for delivering major software projects for several Australian government agencies including the Australian Agriculture and Natural Resources On-line (AANRO), the Department of Justice and Attorney General (DJAG), Civil Aviation and Safety Authority (CASA), The Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia (DAFWA) and the Disability Services Commission (DSC WA).