The Founder’s Story

I’ve raised four children and had to guide each of them through subject selection at school, further education and job selection. Each time I was faced with the same problem – no real guidance in school and no single source of knowledge to find out about jobs in areas unfamiliar to me personally.

 So one day my wife said, “Stop moaning about it and do something about it. I thought that’s what you’ve been doing for the past 40 years anyway – finding solutions for problems that nobody else has thought of. Do it for careers education and help the millions of young people out there, including your own.”

So I did. I started Working Eye and built a great team of film and creative people – communication specialists. But we needed great technology to make the concept come to life – so I added AI and Deep Learning skills into the team, and we partnered with IBM.

Today we have a fully validated approach and a truly disruptive service in career discovery. Kids love it, parents love it, schools love it and industry loves it.

All we need now is investment to make it a reality and a winner for everyone.

Who is behind Working Eye?

Working Eye

Based in the UK, Working Eye skilfully brings together the mass communication arts of advertising with the cost efficiencies of broadcast media and the very latest AI and cognitive technologies. Supported by educationalists at every level, Working Eye will revolutionise the way in which school pupils, students and existing adult workforces go about career discovery in the ever changing world of work. Working Eye will become a cost effective partner to employers through periods of change, during periods of growth and during business as usual when employee engagement is vital. All driven by the huge quantities of previously unimagined data analytics collected from watsonx.

Vastly experienced and motivated team

Peter Cayless
Peter Cayless

Founder & CEO

Prof Rose Luckin

User Journey

Proven Marketer
Steve Carrigan
Lee Rossiter

Technology Lead

Helen Fospero
Helen Fospero

Industry Liaison Lead

Alan Joenn
Alan Joenn

COO

Prof Parashkev Nadev

AI Development

Eva Gross
Eva Gross

Communications

Working Eye
Chris Tholstrup

CFO

Nicola Bayntun

Education Outreach

The best advisors and evangelists

Claudette Bailey-Morrissey
Ron Argent

CEO at TES Enterprise Solutions and Cognition Foundry

Dr Claudette Bailey-Morrissey

Student Aspirations & Careers Leader at
Central Foundation Girls School

Simon Baker

Client Engineering Business Technology Leader, IBM Technology

Clive Barnett
Clive Barnett

Former Headmaster and HM Inspector, Ofsted

Phil Hussey

Former VP Industry Business Development at IBM

Piers Jackson

Head of Careers St Marylebone School and an independent careers advisor

Steve Monty

Founder, producer & film director, Creation
Company

Kate Howe

Executive Director at MSQ Partners and Fellow
of the IPA

Julie Robinson

CEO of the Independent Schools Council

David Sayer

 Former Head of Global Banking and Vice Chair at KPMG

Jeremy Shute

Co-Founder Ignition Strategy Former Global Marketing Director Fortune 500 company

As word spreads about Working Eye, there are more and more supporters and ambassadors championing our cause.

From industry, education and the world of media, we will eventually appoint an ambassador for each of our Career Choice categories to help us spread the word about the many opportunities that exist both now, and in the future, in their own industry or area of expertise.

Not forgetting, of course, the enormous contribution they can also make helping with the furtherment and funding of The Working Eye Foundation.