Steve Caughey, Chief Executive Officer, co-founder

As CEO of Arjuna Technologies Ltd (ATL), Steve is responsible for strategy, corporate development and partnerships. Prior to founding ATL Steve worked as a software engineer and system's architect for a number of telecommunications companies before joining the influential Arjuna research team at Newcastle University in 1990.

His research focused on large scale distribution, object migration and fault tolerance and he was instrumental in commercializing the prototype work of this group by co-founding Arjuna Solutions in 1998. Steve led this start-up company to acquisition, by Bluestone Software, within 12 months of creation.

In 2001, following Bluestone's acquisition by Hewlett-Packard, he formed the HP-Arjuna Labs in Newcastle which gained international acclaim as a Centre of Excellence in the complex domain of transactional and messaging software. In 2002, with the news that HP were disbanding their Middleware Division, Steve co-founded Arjuna Technologies as a vehicle to continue development of Arjuna's software products under license from HP. In 2005, he forged a partnership with JBoss that led to the distribution of Arjuna's Transaction Service as an Open Source component of the JBoss Middleware stack.

Steve holds a B.Sc. in Physics from Queen's University, Belfast, and an M.Sc. in Computing Software and Systems Design from Newcastle University.

Barry Hodgson, Business Development Director

Barry is responsible for Arjuna's business operations, finance, investor relations, and information services. He worked as a manager in the commercial banking sector before joining the Computing Science research team at Newcastle University in 1994. During this period he was responsible for the coordination and management of a portfolio of large-scale, collaborative research contracts across Europe and in 1999 became Company Secretary at Arjuna. Later, he joined Hewlett-Packard and was instrumental in setting up the HP-Arjuna Labs in Newcastle where he had responsibility for the funding and delivery of business operations.

As a Director of Arjuna Technologies, Barry has secured first round VC investment, grant awards for R&D and prize funding for innovation. Barry holds a BA(Hons) in International Business Management, from the University of Newcastle and the Graduate School of Business - Ecole Supérieure de commerce Grenoble, France.

Dr. Stuart Wheater, Chief Scientist, co-founder

Within the domain of reliable distributed computing systems Stuart has an international reputation for cutting-edge research and commercial product development. He graduated with First Class Honours in Computing Science and completed his PhD in 1990. His research has focused on transactions and long-lived process support, with many publications in leading journals and conferences. Product development has included the construction of a CORBA based transactional workflow system (OPENflow) and the industry proven Transaction Service and Message Service from Arjuna.

Stuart worked for over 10 years as a senior member of the influential Arjuna research team and was a founding Director of Arjuna Solutions Ltd before company acquisition mandated his move to Bluestone Software and, in turn, Hewlett-Packard. As a Distinguished Engineer, within HP, Stuart designed and developed the HP-ORB product, to replace a third-party incumbent ORB across HP's product range. At Arjuna Technologies Stuart has overall responsibility for product development and technical vision. He continues to work on a variety of client engagements advising on all aspects of reliable distributed computing systems and maintains his research interest as a Visiting Fellow to Newcastle University.