The team keeping your portfolio compliant
In-house, full-time, every day.
Property licensing changes street by street, council by council, week by week. Behind every update in Kamma is a permanent team of compliance, engineering and property specialists whose only job is to stay ahead of it, so you don't have to.
Orla is CEO and Co-Founder of Kamma, the property compliance platform trusted by many of the UK's leading letting agencies, including Foxtons, Dexters and Hamptons. Under her leadership, Kamma has built the most comprehensive platform on property licensing regulation in the UK, tracking over 370 council licensing schemes across 30 million properties, and become the official licensing partner of the National Residential Landlords Association.
A recognised voice on regulation in the private rented sector, Orla speaks regularly on the Renters' Rights Act, licensing enforcement and what a tightening regulatory landscape means for agents and landlords.
Her expertise in regulation runs deep: she qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young, managed risk and stress-testing frameworks at the Central Bank of Ireland through the banking crisis, and delivered a £650m infrastructure budget for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Away from work, Orla is a competitive cyclist, ranking 34th at the 2017 UCI World Amateur Cycling Championships.
Never outsourced.
Every UK council scheme.
No disruption to your staff.
Checked by a person.
Support that sticks around, long after go-live.
Led by our Head of Customer Success, Nick, who spent 13 years running customer teams at proptech platforms including Fixflo and Switchee. The people onboarding you have worked inside this industry before, at Rightmove and at JLL and Knight Frank, so they set Kamma up around how your agency actually works, then stay close, resolving issues and keeping you getting value long after onboarding.
Nick
Nick has spent the last 13 years leading Customer Success teams for high-growth platforms, including household Proptech names like Fixflo and Switchee. He specialises in managing Onboarding, Support, and Customer Success functions to ensure clients get value from day one. Nick's focus is on transforming technology adoption into a smooth, proactive experience that cuts out operational friction and helps businesses grow. Nick lives in Surrey with his wife and kids, speaks 3 languages, loves cycling, Formula 1, and rock and metal music. Ask him how many Metallica concerts he's been to.
Mike began his career in sales and account management and has spent the last six years in Customer Success, supporting large organisations across the UK property market including Leaders Romans Group, Foxtons, JLL, Pinnacle Group and Knight Frank. His interest is in making sure customers get the full value from the software and data they already pay for, which at Kamma means the licensing picture reaching the people who have to act on it rather than sitting in a report nobody opens. Outside work Mike is a keen runner and tennis player, though he is more often found watching a film, hunting down somewhere good to eat, or with his cats, Barbara and Raven.
With over 10 years' experience across property and prop-tech, Zora has worked with industry-leading businesses including JLL, Knight Frank and HomeViews, a prop-tech startup acquired by Rightmove. She brings a wealth of experience in customer success, account management, and building long-term customer relationships, helping clients maximise the value of technology and achieve their goals. Outside of work, she enjoys a holiday by the beach, discovering new restaurants, and spending quality time with family and friends.
Josie brings a wealth of property industry expertise to Kamma, having spent over 4 years at Rightmove, the UK's number one property portal. Josie translates this heavy-hitting property-tech experience by seamlessly onboarding new clients, managing complex product accounts, and coordinating intricate data handoffs with absolute precision. Outside of work, Josie enjoys reading, spending quality time with her family, and exploring new places whenever she can.
With 9 years of frontline experience across the fintech and global travel industries, Renz is an expert at navigating fast-paced, high-stakes support environments. Renz works directly with users to troubleshoot issues, resolve platform queries, and ensure agents are squeezing maximum value out of Kamma's data, providing the rapid, reliable day-to-day assistance required to keep portfolios secure and workflows undisrupted. Outside of work, Renz is an avid gamer who loves diving into rich digital worlds, and he enjoys winding down by watching gripping true crime documentaries and suspense series.
The team that catches every scheme, and files the applications.
Led by Neil, who spent 25 years building data products at Experian and Rakuten before turning that on licensing. The unit stays in direct contact with housing and enforcement teams across 300+ UK local authorities, and every scheme is checked by a person, not by a crawler alone, then re-checked at least quarterly. The same team files licence applications end to end and in-house, including the document preparation and council paperwork that most agencies outsource.
Neil
With over 25 years' experience building sophisticated data-driven products for global powerhouses like Experian and Rakuten, Neil is a true heavyweight in data strategy and innovation. Combining a background in law with a career scaling bespoke platforms that tracked billions of complex data points, he understands exactly how to turn complex information into actionable clarity. Neil ensures letting agents stay completely ahead of shifting local regulations by overseeing our daily audits and relationships with local councils, guaranteeing your portfolio achieves 100% compliance accuracy without the operational hassle. In his spare time, he runs ultramarathons in an attempt to offset the inhuman amount of calories he consumes from eating and drinking with his family and friends at home and in restaurants.
James brings world-class statistical modelling and analytical precision to Kamma's data infrastructure. With a career that includes developing predictive risk models at top-tier institutions like Boston Consulting Group and managing strict compliance frameworks in the finance sector, he specialises in transforming massive, unpredictable datasets into rock-solid, reliable systems. As a Data Analyst within Kamma's council compliance team, James translates his advanced expertise into a compliance shield for our customers. He utilises his deep expertise in data structuring and predictive modelling to maintain, analyse, and track compliance trends and insights across the 440k+ properties in our customer's portfolios. Outside of work, James enjoys film, weightlifting, reading and op shopping.
Max brings absolute analytical precision to Kamma's data infrastructure, having spent years optimising intricate supply chains and maintaining complex database software. He is a key driver behind our multi-layered data validation strategy, ensuring your agency receives flawless, street-level licensing designations the exact moment a council adjusts a boundary line, eliminating human error, preventing missed schemes, and protecting your portfolio from costly compliance fines. Outside of work, Max is fluent in Swedish after his years spent living abroad. To relax, he likes to read and swim in the sea.
Alongside over a decade of hands-on experience managing rentals and supporting large-scale property portfolios, Jai spent 3 years working directly within government compliance. She manages the heavy lifting of the licence submission pipeline from end-to-end, handling the tedious manual administration, complex document preparation, and strict paperwork requirements entirely in-house. Outside of work, Jai is deeply passionate about social impact and is the founder of Add Peace Mindanao, a peacebuilding nonprofit in the Philippines. To wind down, she loves travelling, reading, diving into true crime documentaries, and spending quality time with her 5 dogs.
Maryjoy spent several years in property research and due diligence across the Australian real estate sector. She supported over $463 million in property transactions at Rethink Investing and strengthened her expertise at Master Strata Inspections Australia, work that rewards accuracy and a habit of asking one more question. At Kamma she prepares and files licence applications, handling the document preparation and council paperwork most agencies outsource, where getting a detail right first time is the difference between an application progressing and one coming back. Outside work she grows her own vegetables, travels with friends, and is reliably the one laughing hardest at a TikTok reel.
Biography to follow.
A living platform, built by property-data specialists.
Led by Gary, formerly CTO at what3words and a veteran of Ordnance Survey, alongside our Chief Product Officer, Vaughan. Street-level geospatial data is the hard part of licensing, and it is what this team built careers on before Kamma, from national mapping to property search at Homesearch. They ship an average of 5 live updates a week, so Kamma keeps pace with regulation automatically, without disrupting your staff.
Gary
With over 25 years' experience building world-class mapping technologies for giants like Yahoo!, Nokia, and Ordnance Survey, as well as serving as CTO at what3words, Gary is a true heavyweight in location and property data. Gary's experience brings a firm and reliable structure to Kamma's software, which maintains the most authoritative dataset on licensing schemes in the UK. He ensures customers can access key licensing insights by shipping key compliance improvements and allowing our software to flawlessly integrate into your existing CRM, ensuring 100% compliance and security robustness. Outside of work, Gary is a self-confessed "map obsessive" who runs the Mostly Maps blog. He loves spending quality time with his family and can usually be spotted working from just about anywhere, provided it serves an excellent espresso, has free Wi-Fi, and a place to plug in his MacBook.
Vaughan
With over 25 years' experience creating compelling digital experiences for global brands like HSBC, Informa Tech, and News UK, Vaughan is an elite product leader dedicated to solving complex industry problems. Vaughan is the driving force behind Kamma's exceptional operational agility, personally overseeing the framework that ships an average of 5 live improvements to our platform every single week with zero disruption to your staff, ensuring absolute portfolio security. When he's not working, Vaughan can be found in his apple orchard and berry garden, or making jams and cooking with the harvest, usually to go with his homemade sourdough. He's also a not-so-secret Shakespeare nerd.
With nearly 7 years of experience architecting Kamma's core software infrastructure, Ben is a proven engineering leader who excels at building highly scalable, rock-solid platforms. He spearheads the technical development that ensures Kamma's platform remains robust, ultra-secure, and user-friendly. By driving the technical execution behind our weekly platform updates, Ben gives agents absolute database reliability and total peace of mind for licensing compliance. Although everything computing is Ben's real passion, he'll often be found skiing down the French pistes. Ben also loves hiking, games and is a dab hand on a pub quiz.
With a degree in Computing Science and over a decade of full-stack development experience, James has a proven track record of building high-performing software for major global brands, including Barclays, Aviva, and Pret a Manger. He translates his extensive data expertise into an effortless compliance shield by ensuring Kamma plugs flawlessly into your workflows and CRMs. By masterminding the silent, data synchronization behind the scenes, James ensures letting agents receive real-time licensing updates directly inside the platforms they already use. Outside of work James enjoys long walks around Norfolk, vegetarian cooking and pushing his capabilities with various DIY projects.
Philip brings over 20 years of sophisticated web development and API architecture experience to Kamma, including a deep background in the property sector. He has previously designed core backend reporting services for prop-tech platform Homesearch. Philip designs and delivers the core APIs and lightning-fast backend services that allow Kamma to scale securely. He ensures that complex local authority updates flow instantly and securely across the platform, guaranteeing an ultra-reliable, zero-disruption system that keeps your portfolio completely protected. Outside of work, Philip is always exploring the latest web technologies through various personal side projects. To step away from the screen, he loves learning new languages, going cycling, and spending quality time with his family.
With over 13 years' experience building and scaling critical software infrastructure, Andrew is a seasoned technical leader who excels at designing robust systems. He has spent his career making major architectural decisions and managing complex platforms, including integral internal systems for large international companies. Andrew is focused on strengthening the stability, speed, security, and uptime of the company's infrastructure. He's driving improvements to the systems architecture to ensure it scales seamlessly and securely, supporting our industry-leading compliance system behind the scenes. Andrew also loves music. He's a musician who mainly plays the drums, but also guitar and bass. He enjoys going to live shows and festivals and has also previously toured around the UK and mainland Europe with bands of his own.
With nearly 20 years of specialised experience in technical delivery and Quality Assurance, including leading technical testing divisions at OpenBet and the University of Law, Liam is an expert at managing complex software release cycles and ensuring absolute platform reliability. He manages Kamma's full release cycle and acts as the primary gatekeeper for platform quality, prioritising engineering workflows to focus on high-impact features. By rigorously testing and validating every software change before it goes live, he ensures that shifting council boundaries and new licensing rules are deployed seamlessly into your system. Outside of work, Liam loves staying active by both playing and watching sports. He can also frequently be found embarking on long, scenic walks with his dog, Oreo.
With over 12 years' experience navigating and scaling fast-paced startup environments, Mat is a proven expert at turning operational complexity into smooth, user-centric experiences. Having previously managed complex local authority systems at tech-powered Childminder agency Tiney, he knows exactly how to build scalable software solutions to real-world problems. Mat ensures the tech and service behind our end-to-end licence application pipeline is efficient and smooth. His work ensures letting agents can seamlessly offload the manual administration, tedious paperwork, and council chasing to Kamma, eliminating staff friction and securing a hassle-free route to licence approval. Outside of work, Mat is a huge music geek, non-league football fan with Walthamstow FC, and dad-of-2. He can often be found listening to comedy podcasts while running, or just in the pub.
The people who connect agents with Kamma.
Headed up by our Chief Growth Officer, Joe, and Jess, who spent nearly a decade in UK property, most of it partnering with estate and letting agents at Rightmove. Between them the team knows the portal side and the agency side, and helps you adopt Kamma with minimal friction while turning what the platform does into clarity you can act on.
Joe
Joe brings a world-class pedigree in strategic growth, having cut his teeth at Kantar, the world's largest data company. There, he designed data-driven solutions for global giants like HSBC, Google, and Unilever, and spearheaded the international launch of data products that generated 9-figure revenue streams. He co-founded a global entertainment brand, building its data science and marketing functions from scratch. Joe focuses on turning complex, fluctuating, and messy local legislation into clean, high-value tools that protect your business and unlock new portfolio opportunities. By driving Kamma's commercial and market expansion, Joe ensures that your agency is backed by a financially robust, fast-moving, and future-proof compliance partner. Joe's extracurricular accolades are a triumph of enthusiasm over ability. He has an amateur boxing record of 1-1-0 and completed both the Sally Up challenge and a no-prep trail marathon, during the lockdown.
Jess
Jess has spent nearly a decade embedded in the UK property sector, most notably partnering with estate and letting agents at Rightmove. Her extensive background also includes over a decade of high-level account management for global logistics giants FedEx and DHL. She is passionate about uncovering the operational hurdles agents encounter, bringing specialised property licensing expertise to help clients navigate complex local compliance regulations. Jess focuses on nurturing long-term relationships that help clients mitigate risk, seamlessly adopt new tools, and drive business growth. When she's not supporting her clients, Jess is an avid traveller who loves discovering new places with her son. You'll usually find them planning their next big outdoor getaway, whether it involves hitting the ski slopes, hiking, or scuba diving.
Persia brings over a decade of elite marketing leadership and full-funnel demand generation expertise to Kamma. Having previously served as Head of Marketing at Wranx, she has a proven track record of scaling high-growth SaaS platforms and aligning technology with tangible business outcomes. Persia focuses on translating Kamma's complex, street-level compliance data into clear, actionable, and persona-led messaging. By bridging the gap between our powerful software upgrades and the daily commercial pressures facing modern letting agents, she ensures our clients immediately understand how to leverage Kamma to eliminate administrative hassle, protect their portfolios from costly fines, and unlock new growth opportunities. Outside of work, she loves keeping a pulse on digital culture, exploring new cities, and diving into creative projects.
Tom has spent five years in the UK property sector, most notably at Rightmove, helping estate agents get more from the technology and data available to them in a market that never stands still. At Kamma he works with agents to find where licensing creates friction in their week, then shows them how to take that work off their staff, so compliance stops being something anyone has to chase by hand. He measures the job by whether he has made life a little easier for the people he works with. Outside work, football takes up most of Tom's time. He is a lifelong Arsenal fan who gets to the Emirates whenever he can, and sits on the committee at his local club, Twigworth Green FC, which won the league and cup double in its first season. He is hoping to spend more of this one on the pitch than on the physio table. The rest goes on padel, time with his family, and 6am coffee walks with Ralph, his Cavapoo.
With a background in Philosophy from the University of Warwick and a career rooted in creative media communications and growth marketing, Sam excels at distilling complex, abstract concepts into clear, impactful messaging. He ensures that the power of our compliance technology is clearly translated into tangible value for letting agents. His focus is on delivering actionable clarity, ensuring your team is always fully equipped to maximise Kamma's compliance solution. Outside of work, Sam is a passionate creative who can frequently be found frequenting the BFI, playing classical guitar, or producing music.
Alex came to Kamma from outside property, with seven years as a personal trainer at David Lloyd and two years in physiotherapy with the NHS, work built almost entirely on reading people and holding a relationship over time. A Psychology degree from Canterbury Christ Church University sharpened the same instinct for understanding what someone actually needs before proposing anything. He brings that to first conversations with letting agents, spending them on where compliance is costing an agency time or money rather than on the product, so agents who go on to speak with the wider team already know why it matters to them. Outside work Alex is usually moving, on a golf course or up a hill, and competes regularly in fitness events for charity. He is also serious about music and film, and once he starts on a film he rates, he does not stop.
The stability underneath the software.
The wing that keeps Kamma financially resilient and running like clockwork behind the scenes.
With over a decade of high-level financial leadership experience, Shaoai thrives at the intersection of structure and speed. She spent nearly 7 years mastering financial compliance and scaling the ranks to Manager at top-tier audit firm Crowe UK, before directing global financial operations for international education bodies and fast-growing tech startups. Shaoai's data-driven financial stewardship ensures Kamma remains a heavily backed, resilient, and future-proof partner for letting agencies. By maintaining a highly secure financial framework, she enables Kamma to continuously invest in our elite engineering talent and pioneering council-auditing systems, giving your business absolute confidence that your compliance shield is built on a sustainable foundation. Outside of spreadsheets, Shaoai is likely getting her hands dirty, literally. A lifelong maker, she loves painting, ceramics, sewing and all things craft-related. Recharging for her often means long woodland walks, cozy nights camping under the stars, or running wild at outdoor family festivals with her little one.
Originally hailing from Canada, Diana spent 7 years in London's fast-paced tech scene, where she became a master of spinning plates. From handling complex operations and investor relations to keeping the C-suite organised, she learned exactly how to keep a high-growth environment running like clockwork. Today, she brings that versatility to Kamma to help plan for future growth. Diana's role is wonderfully widespread; alongside her day-to-day work as EA to the CEO, she injects vital structure into internal processes and handles everything from HR to compliance. For the past 3 years, she has been managing all these moving parts while working remotely from the gorgeous Italian seaside. When she's off the clock, she's living her absolute best life under the Mediterranean sun with her 2 favourite girls: her cats, Prosecco and Salsiccia.
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