At Aidrivers, our mission is accelerating autonomous technology to meet the needs of industry for optimisation, resiliency and safety for a sustainable future.
Our Story
At Aidrivers, AI-enabled autonomy for industrial mobility automation has been our focus. We develop AI-enabled autonomous mobility solutions tailored to meet the needs of industrial operations, particularly in the ports and logistics sector.
Founded by Dr Rafiq Swash and powered by a team of seasoned professionals and scientists who work together to deliver autonomous mobility automation for demanding industrial applications, UK-based Aidrivers has a presence in the UK (London) with subsidiaries across the world and works collaboratively with leading strategic partners.
Our bespoke autonomous mobility paired with predictive analytics capability is pushing the frontiers for efficient and effective operations with safety across industrial applications.
Aidrivers Leadership & Management Team
Michel van Roozendaal
Chairman of the Board
Michel has an impressive industrial background, most recently as President of Kalmar - a €2B global heavy equipment business, where he delivered record performance.
*Team members are arranged in alphabetical order.
Andreas Hansson
Board Member
Andreas was Managing Director of SoftBank Group. He currently is also an advisor to Axelera AI, a partner in 2^Q Ventures, Kigen and AutoStore, and Chairperson at Kahoot!
Imran Khatri
Board Member (Observer)
Imran is a proactive and influential professional Consultant with proven delivery expertise and experience possessing detailed SME knowledge of Retail & Investment operations
Jay Allardyce
Board Advisor
Jay is a founding board member of Generative AI. Before he was Google’s Managing Director, Strategic Business Development, as well as Chief Product and Marketing Officer at GE.
Jonathan Lee
Board Member (Observer)
Jonathan is currently PSA Corporation’s Assistant Vice President of Smart System Solutions, Singapore. He was also Assistant Vice President at Pasir Panjang Terminal Engineering.
Kas Sheikh
Board Advisor
Kas has worked in business and technology for more than 40 years. He previously held senior positions at Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, UBS and Deutsche Bank
Kelvin Zhou
Chief Business Development Officer
Having worked at various locations for PSA, Royal Haskoning DHV and Kalmar, Kelvin has built a solid network globally in the supply chain industry. He has also led and set up the seaports automation department at ST Engineering.
Leo Kirby
Board Advisor
Leo has spent over 20-years in the energy sector witha focus on investing, financing and managing energy infrastructure across APACand Europe.
Mohib Wallizada
Chief Technology Officer
Mohib previously worked at BAE Systems and for IBM. His areas of expertise include mapping and localisation, autonomous navigation, sensor fusion and robotics integration.
Mrugank Inamdar
Chief Financial Officer
Mrugank has 20 years experience in business development and financing with a focus on commercialisation, financing and investment.
Ooi Boon Hoe
Board Advisor
Following his stint in the Republic of Singapore Navy, Boon Hoe’s career has spanned more than 20 years in the port business with a short but meaningful stint in corporate finance.
Phyllis Han
Global Head of Business
Phyllis worked at Haines Watts, SRLV, and E&Y as a chartered accountant and advisor making meaningful contributions to the overall vision of these organisations.
Rafiq Swash
Founder & CEO
Dr. Rafiq Swash is a seasoned professional with a decade of experience in international technology-driven industries, academia and world-class research centres.
Sadaf Ghani
Chief Marketing & Communications Officer
Sadaf previously held marketing, PR and business development roles in diverse sectors, including at Europcar and at World Duty Free (Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted airports).
Tok Soon Chong
Board Member & Managing Director
Soon Chong has worked 20 years at Portek International Pte Ltd as Executive Director and Chief Technical Officer of and CEO of Portek Systems & Equipment Pte Ltd.
Tom Saunders
Investment Director
Tom worked at Investec, JP Morgan, Canaccord and Liberum. More recently, Tom moved across to industry to work for the UK’s leading space technology company Reaction Engines.
Wenbing Yao
Board Advisor
Wenbing worked at Huawei from 2008. Her roles included Director of Strategy and Marketing, Cyber Security Officer and VF Global Account for the Huawei Vodafone Global Account.
Our vision is delivering zero waste and zero downtime across industry.
Brand Values
Quality
Excellence prevails in the #quality solutions we offer
Community
We have a shared responsibility (#community) and everyone contributes to our success.
Sustainability
Sustainable development is crucially important to securing our future (#sustainability).
Change
Knowledge is our power, together we drive meaningful #change.
Clarity
Openness and #clarity of purpose are key to how we communicate.
Success
People are the integral part of our #success.
Empower
We encourage and #empower everyone to achieve individual and collective goals.
Ideas
A general spirit (#idea) of discovery is fostered in all aspects of our work.
Integrity
We act with #integrity, treat each other with dignity and respect.
Our Goals
To provide autonomous mobility solutions which meet the industry automation needed today for tomorrow’s sustainability.
To significantly augment the user experience in integration and deployment of AI-enabled autonomous mobility solutions.
To provide self-aware systems which deliver optimisation to reduce energy waste and increase efficiency.
