An agile platform to adapt to changing regulations. A team of R&D tax claim and sector specialist: ex-HMRC, ATT qualified, AML trained, AML registered and supervised by HMRC.
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The people behind every EmpowerRD R&D claim.
Tax specialists, claim quality experts, client success managers, product builders and commercial teams working together around one transparent claim process.
people across EmpowerRD
EmpowerRD founded
UK innovators supported
all-time HMRC enquiry rate
Leading EmpowerRD
Clear ownership across the business, from tax and claim operations to customer experience, product, technology and growth.
Harinder Sandhu
Founder & Executive Chairman
Founded EmpowerRD in 2017 after a career spanning technology strategy and government incentives.
The specialists behind the claim.
Tax treatment, technical narrative, financial review and claim quality are separated into distinct responsibilities — then brought together before submission.
Vishnu Pillai
Head of Tax and Claim Operations
Leads claim methodology and tax operations, combining a senior tax qualification with an engineering background.
Katie Pearce
Head of Claim Quality
Runs the multi-stage quality review that claims pass through before submission.
Yasmin Lakin
R&D Financial Consultant
Works on qualifying costs, apportionment and the financial compliance side of R&D claims.
Jaz Johari
R&D Tax Consultant
Brings an advanced-materials research background to the technical side of qualifying R&D activity.
Nikki Omanian
R&D Tax Consultant
Brings health & clinical drug research background to the technical side of qualifying R&D activity.
One team around the client.
Client success keeps the process moving: onboarding teams, coordinating inputs, tracking deadlines and giving clients a consistent point of contact.
Bachir Sani
Head of SMB Client Success
Leads the SMB client-success function and the day-to-day experience around claim delivery.
Ben Crawford
Senior Customer Success Manager
Supports clients through onboarding, collaboration and claim milestones.
Almira Hussain
Customer Success Manager
Works directly with clients to coordinate their claim journey and platform collaboration.
Madeleine Dawkins
Customer Success Manager
Helps clients manage claim inputs, timelines and communication across the process.
Bradley De Padey
Customer Success Manager
Supports businesses through the operational stages of building and submitting an R&D claim.
Hafsa Muftisada
Corporate Account Executive
Works with larger and more complex organisations considering EmpowerRD’s claim service.
Building the platform behind the process.
The product and engineering team turns regulatory requirements and claim workflows into a collaboration platform clients can see and use.
Ben Skingsley
Tech Lead
Leads the engineering work that keeps the platform reliable, secure and adaptable to changing claim requirements.
Anushka Parhar
Product Lead
Leads product development around the workflows, collaboration and visibility built into the EmpowerRD platform.
Helping more businesses find the right claim partner.
Commercial and marketing teams connect the market to EmpowerRD’s people, platform and evidence-led approach.
Ross Taylor
Head of Sales & Marketing
Leads commercial growth and marketing, connecting EmpowerRD’s proposition to businesses evaluating R&D support.
Freddie Christie
Sales Development Representative
Works with larger and more complex organisations considering EmpowerRD’s claim service.
Supporting the business behind the claims.
Finance and people functions support the operating model that lets client, tax and technology teams deliver consistently.
Francesco Calvente
Head of Finance
Leads financial control, planning and the internal finance function at EmpowerRD.
Sam Cushing
People Lead
Supports the people function, culture and organisational development across EmpowerRD.
Meet the people who sign the technical content.
The team page introduces the whole business. The Experts section is intentionally narrower: it is reserved for people whose qualifications, experience and review scope support public authorship or technical review.
Vishnu Pillai
Tax, claims, engineering & methodology
Katie Pearce
Claim quality & compliance
Yasmin Lakin
Costs & qualifying expenditure
Jaz Johari
Science & technical narrative
Nikki Omanlian
Health & Pharma narrative
Harinder Sandhu
Policy & senior scrutiny
Want to join the team?
We’re building a different model for R&D claims: specialist people working alongside a transparent collaboration platform. If that sounds like the kind of environment you want to work in, explore current opportunities.