Our leadership team combines deep legal, operational and technical expertise, with first-hand experience building and running complex disputes, complaints and regulated casework functions.
Where Operational Experience,
Meets Agentic AI
Ctrl AI was founded by operational and transformation leaders from magic circle law firms, Big 4 consultancies and global enterprises. These are professionals who have spent careers building, fixing and scaling the processes that underpin disputes, complaints and complex casework.
The tools available to legal, risk and compliance teams have never matched the complexity of the work. AI has changed what is possible, but most of what the market offers is generic, uncontrolled and disconnected from how regulated teams actually operate.
Ctrl AI was created to close that gap. We have built a purpose-built platform that brings AI into legal and compliance operations with discipline at its core. Every recommendation is grounded in your evidence and your operational frameworks, every output is verified by a human and every decision is fully auditable.
We believe AI should be controlled, not hyped. Grounded in operational rigour, not general training data. Brought to the problem, not left to improvise. That is what we build and that is how we operate.
Anup Kollanethu
Co-Founder & CEO
Anup brings over 15 years of leadership across transformation, managed services and legal operations. His career spans CEO of DWF Managed Services, Head of Legal Operations at EY, and senior positions at Freshfields and Aviva.
Nicky Pearson
Co-Founder & CPO
Nicky has over a decade of operational leadership across private practice and enterprise, including senior legal operations roles at Freshfields and Director of Operations at Liberty Global. He has built and led large-scale operational teams across disputes, complaints and casework, leveraging technology to enable structured, high-volume delivery within regulated environments.
Legal & Operational Leadership
Product Manager
Emily Hopkins
Emily has held roles at Freshfields and Deloitte, leading product management and transformation programmes across legal and professional services. She works directly with clients to translate complex operational requirements into structured platform capability.
Product Manager
Marc Massey
Marc is a qualified lawyer who brings legal domain expertise directly into product design. He owns client implementations and ensures the platform delivers practical value to the case handlers and legal teams who use it every day.
Head of Engineering
Cristian Berceanu
Cristian joined from Mishcon de Reya, where he developed deep expertise in AI, software engineering and the specific requirements of building legal-ready software for regulated environments. He leads engineering delivery, platform architecture and technical quality.
Wider Team
Our commercial and strategic leadership team brings experience across enterprise growth, go-to-market strategy and scalable platform development, ensuring Ctrl AI’s solutions reach and serve the organisations that need them most.