About Us

Future Route is focused on one activity: delivering insight to business strategists in data-intensive markets.

Our core technology is a uniquely powerful combination of Inductive Logic Programming (an exciting new field in artificial intelligence) and sophisticated data analytics.

Our technology can be applied to any market that struggles to extract insight from data.

Validis, our first commercial application was launched in October 2007 and is already making a major impact on the way accountants analyse their financial data.

Validis won the 2007 Accountancy Age Award for Best Software innovation.

Future Route is actively partnering with software vendors, resellers, systems integrators and service providers to create new solutions for a wide range of markets.

Future Route is a privately owned company managed by experienced entrepreneurs, with a team of top analysts, mathematicians, accountants and developers creating the technology. Its principle financial backers are a Private Investor Group, consiting of successful City people, entrepreneurs and business people who help to identify suitable investment opportunities.

The Board

Christopher Poll, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer: Chris is the largest single shareholder and has been in the City for nearly 40 years. He is a former investment manager and investment banker turned stockbroker and then entrepreneur. Chris was founder, financier and Chairman of Micropal 1983-1997, which he built into 16 offices around the world before its sale to Standard and Poors. Since then he has advised the Chinese Government on the creation of their domestic Asset Management and Fund Industry and is a VC investor in a number of early stage companies.

Alan Morgan, Non-Executive Director: Alan Morgan was at McKinsey for 28 years and was a senior partner for the last 15 years. Alan built McKinsey's financial institutions practices in Europe and the Middle East, and was also one of a small number of senior partners supervising the McKinsey Investment Office, which manages over $3 billion of employee investments and retirement plans. Alan has served central banks and market regulators, implemented large operational improvement projects and helped create new businesses within a variety of finance-related sectors. Alan has been an investor in Future Route Ltd since 2002.

Professor Russel Griggs, non-executive Director: is an experienced international general manager and marketing professional with a proven record of leadership, achievement and innovation in the private and public sector. Between 2008 - 2011 he is serving as Chair of the CBI UK, the UK SME National Council, as well as Chair of other CBI Committees. He is a member of the UK Government Small Business Forum and the UK Government SME Advisory Group and also served on the UK Government Small Business Financial Forum, Lord Mandelson's Advisory Group on SME's and banks during the credit crisis. Other memberships include: the Berr Business Link Strategy Board, HMRC's Administrative Burdens Advisory Board, CBI Scotland, Scottish Government's Minister for Enterprise & Energy's Small Business Consultative Group, the Scottish Government's Regulatory Review Group and PHASS, Scotland's Committee of health and safety.

David Fisher, interim Operations Director: After following a career in Strategy Consulting and Corporate Finance at Deloitte & Touche and KPMG, David moved into the venture capital industry and previously represented the South East Growth Fund who have been investors in Future Route since 2003. He is currently fulfilling the role of interim Operations Director of Future Route.