Our Leadership
HARMONAI Founding Partners
Bill Rylance
Bill leads Harmonai’s corporate strategy. Founder of two highly successful start-ups, he has advised global CEOs and government leaders. He was also regional CEO for a leading global company and has served on the Board of several international organisations.
Marcello Fontana
Marcello is the chief architect of Delfyn, Harmonai’s AI platform for high-stakes strategy, decisioning and business execution. He leverages deep quantitative knowledge and proven innovation expertise to engineer intelligent agent ecosystems and causal AI applications.
Jo Chew
Jo works with clients to drive effective business transformation amid diverging interests and cultural differences. Her work focuses on business-critical engagement challenges, including the uncertainties of AI transformation, geopolitical uncertainty and diversity and inclusion.
Simon Pangrazio
Simon specialises in corporate reputation, investor relations, issues and crisis management and ESG. Sector experience includes financial services, agriculture, mining and resources, technology and healthcare. He has been regional CEO and Managing Partner of two other major consulting firms.
Harmonai
Catalyst Group
The Harmonai Catalyst Group is a world class team of renowned experts with deep knowledge and experience in areas and issues which can be critical and relevant to any organisation that has diverse and demanding stakeholders around the world. Bios available upon request.
Our Catalyst Group members include...
Sustainability & Climate Change
A world-renowned physicist, engineer and economist with a focus on energy, water resources, sustainable development and climate change.
He was the 2021 Blue Planet Prize Laureate, and Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice-President of the United States Al Gore.
Human Rights & Business
A business and human rights expert with wide experience of advising multinational companies on their human rights related issues and risks.
A proven track record of developing and installing human rights policies and processes, carrying-out due diligence in highly sensitive locations, developing and leading global human rights training programmes, and providing advice and stakeholder engagement recommendations, ranging from investor roadshows to negotiations with indigenous peoples’ groups.
AI & the Media Ecosystem
One of the world’s foremost experts in the ongoing effort to integrate AI responsibly and effectively into the fabric of journalism.
With a career trajectory - from software development through pivotal product management roles in major technology and media corporations like Yahoo! and the BBC, and research with the Reuters Institute, he has been at the cutting edge of addressing the most pressing and complex challenges at the news-technology interface with hands-on involvement in the building and management of systems that leverage data and AI for content understanding and news innovation.
AI, the Internet & Digital News
A senior Research Fellow in AI and Digital News at Oxford University with a Doctorate from the Oxford Internet Institute.
He has presented work at various conferences, including ICA and the International Journalism Festival and is an experienced moderator of academic and industry panels. His research and commentary has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Politico, Financial Times, Nature, New Statesman, Business Insider, WIRED,CNN, and the BBC. He has given evidence to inquiries of the UK House of Lords and House of Commons, press regulator IMPRESS, and the United Nations, and frequently advises media organisations on AI.
