Max Birley CEO Founding Shareholder

Originally trained as a geophysicist in the UK, he spent +30 years in technical and commercial management in the Oil and Gas business. As an explorationist, navigation was always a core competence. During his career he was always exposed to the application of cutting-edge technology to crack exploration problems. On leaving the business he decided to apply his skills to the guidance and control of autonomous vehicles. This then morphed into a mowing business.

During his time as a CEO of an independent oil company, he was involved with the raising of many 10’s of millions of dollars for the business. Having lived in 14 different countries he is very comfortable working with people from all over the world.  He now lives and works in Texas near Austin

Apart from his CEO duties within YouNoMow he also builds and tests the protoype mowers. In the early days he did some programming however he says that the code surpassed his skills about 2 years ago. So he leaves that to the experts. He is very active with the overall direction of the product and concepts that control the functionality of the mowers

Jannis Kotsis

Jannis is an Experienced IT Professional with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. He holds a M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Royal Institute of Technology(KTH), in Stockholm, Sweden. He has worked as technical leader and project manager in the software sector and is currently active in the development of software solutions in the defense sector on behalf of a Greek company based in Athens. His fields of interest include geographical systems, databases and networks. He likes to work in challenging technical environments and different business areas.Jannis wrote all the code for the Mission Planning and Visualization Software. Jannis is based in Greece and works on this project remotely

Tobie Doolaard

Most of Tobies career he worked for a major oil company in the measurement and control engineering department. He held the positions of control systems engineer, process control engineer and project instrument engineer. As a systems engineer and process control engineer he programmed the control systems (especially for batch operations) that control the chemical processes. Apart from this work, he is also involved as a freelance programmer in a multitude of projects such as weighing projects, metal roller benders, face recognition, midi, home automation,  website scraping and so on. Programming is mainly done with the programming languages C++, Python and PHP. Last but not least I have been involved in the mower project for a long time where I did some of the programming and I am still involved in further optimizing these programs to optimize the product  and ensure smooth operation. Tobie is based in Holland and works on this project remotely.