Frank Joshi, Co-founder and CEO
Frank Joshi is a successful entrepreneur and senior executive, with 23 years of experience in the technology sector.
Frank was the co-founder of Martex Communications, a highly successful B2B portal that was operating in 26 vertical sectors by the time it was sold in 2000 to Tarsus Group. Frank remained at Tarsus Group as a Board Director before going on to found Mvine with Raymond Field. Mvine was originally trialled in the B2C sector as a music-based social network, but Frank felt that the opportunity lay in the B2B market and so in 2006 the team re-engineered the platform as a social business tool.
Frank is also Chairman of ChangeBase Ltd and a founding director of Knowledge Peers and Music Balloon, amongst other non-executive roles. He is an angel investor, a Liveryman of the Information Technologists’ Company, and has been a regular speaker for the Department of Trade and Industry.
Raymond Field, CTO
Raymond Field is the original creator of the Mvine platform and its supporting business intelligence platform, InfoNow, and oversees their continuing development.
Before co-founding Mvine with Frank Joshi in 2005, Raymond was a senior technologist at blue-chip companies including National Australia Bank Group, Credit Suisse, Sportech and Fujitsu. During his career he developed specialist expertise in performance-tuning large relational databases, often achieving improvements of over 1000%. Raymond has a BSc (Hons) from the University of Glasgow, UK.
Peter Drake, Director of Business Innovation
Peter Drake is an international entrepreneur with 40 years of IT industry experience.
As well as his work at Mvine, Peter is currently the Managing Director of Intelligent Networks, a company with subsidiaries in Luxembourg, Hungary and Japan which he founded in 1985. He is also a Fellow of the British Computer Society and the Institute of Engineering and Technology; a Freeman of the City of London; and Chairman of the Technology Panel of the Information Technologists' Company, the 100th livery company of the City of London.
Peter has had a very diverse career, encompassing technical, senior management, board and advisory roles. He was on the board of KFKI (Hungarian Institute of Physics), which he helped become the largest private IT company in Hungary. Peter also set up a joint venture between Atos Origin and RTL group to create the first co-location centre in Luxembourg after founding the second Business Recovery Centre there.
Peter has been a senior advisor on IT policy and delivery to governments and corporates, including Philips Electronics, and the Hungarian, Luxembourg, and Malta governments. In the 1990s he was the official IT Auditor to the UK Houses of Parliament, publishing his recommendations as “The Drake Report” which established Parliament’s first IT department.
