Team | Regulatory depth. Engineering capability. Commercial experience.

Leadership team

The founders.

Damian Larrington

Co-Founder

Damian is a pharmaceutical quality and regulatory specialist and the architect of AAP’s regulatory rule sets. He chairs the Pharmaceutical Quality Group (PQG) and runs PQP Group, a pharmaceutical quality organisation whose work includes specialist training in areas such as advanced therapy medicinal products. At AiVACO he leads the encoding of regulatory and quality requirements into the deterministic rules AAP applies to every AI output, and guides the advisory practice’s validation and inspection readiness work.

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Jonathan Pieterse

Co-Founder

Jonathan leads AiVACO’s commercial strategy, partnerships and go to market. As Director of Global Demand and Analytics at Rockwell Automation, he led the digital transformation of the global marketing organisation. His career also includes global marketing leadership at Murata Manufacturing, serving as Secretariat for EPSMA, and co-publishing with IHS Markit.

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AI Lab

Where encoded regulatory rules meet production engineering.

The AiVACO AI Lab designs, builds and hardens AAP. It is where sovereign deployment moves from architecture diagram to running system.

Gourav Rana

AI Developer

Develops AAP’s AI capabilities: retrieval and grounding pipelines, model gateway integration, evaluation harnesses and the test datasets used to evidence performance against acceptance criteria.

Sudarshna Thakur

AI and DevOps

Works across AI engineering and DevOps, focusing on the infrastructure that makes sovereignty real: model serving behind the gateway, containerised deployment into customer environments, egress controls, monitoring and a release pipeline that keeps every build reproducible and signed.

Abhishek Thakur

Full Stack Developer

Builds the AAP application layer: reviewer workspaces, electronic signature workflows, dashboards, and integrations with customer systems and identity providers.

Nesanath Francis

AI Creative Director

Leads AiVACO’s AI creative and experience design: AI graphics and video, interface design, brand storytelling and interactive experiences such as assured AI assistants and avatars for events.

Operations

Keeping every engagement on time and on the record.

Mo Chen

Project Manager

Runs AiVACO delivery from first briefing to production: pilot plans, milestones, risk logs and the evidence pack schedule, so every engagement produces what it promised, when it promised it.

Kaylee Worthington

Business Manager and Operations

Leads AiVACO’s business operations: contracts and onboarding, supplier and partner administration, finance and the day to day running of the company, keeping the team free to focus on clients.

Regulatory depth. Engineering capability. Commercial experience.