Kognitive Property Founding Team
Kevin O’Grady — CEO
Kevin is an Arup Associated Director. His experience includes management of the full suite of commercial activities, he worked on Digital passport pilot for HS2. Kevin is a Board member of FIBREE, which is the leading international network for exchanging knowledge between the real estate industry, the IT sector and blockchain technology.
Nick Robb — CFO
Nick is a senior policy advisor to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) in the UK with a background in construction finance and business strategy. Nick’s link to the finance and energy market has helped shape the platform to prove a holistic centre for retrofit knowledge.
Qizhou Xiong — CTO/Economist
An empirical economist specialising in real estate economics and data science with expertise in residential real estate, prop tech and retail real estate. Extensive experience analysing big data from the UK, Germany and the USA. Highly data-driven real estate research with a close connection to the financial market and macroeconomic condition. Qizhou used to work for Said Business School, University of Oxford, as a research fellow for the Future of Real Estate Initiative. He worked in academia for a decade before joining the industry. His research in the housing markets, energy efficiency premium in houses, PropTech and the financial market makes him the ideal co-founder to oversee the data platform building and cutting-edge technology incorporation.