Senior Leadership Team

Adam Greenwood-Byrne

Chief Executive Officer

Adam was appointed CEO in March 2018 after successfully building RealVNC’s intellectual property licensing (OEM) business and transforming their end-user proposition to a SaaS model. Leading the business into Livingbridge’s 2021 investment has left RealVNC poised for its next stage of growth.

With a background in Mathematics and Computer Science, and a career spent growing IT companies from the ground up, Adam bridges the technical and commercial interests of the business. Seeing his role as building a world-class team that works together in harmony to deliver an excellent service, this has been an important attribute.

Over his career, he has helped charities, non-profits, start-ups, scale-ups and corporates alike to deploy technology that maximises efficiency and effectiveness. His passion for RealVNC as a productivity solution that’s relevant in every industry sector, at every organisation size, is only amplified by its long history of reducing carbon emissions and creating workplace equity by enabling people to reduce their personal travel and work wherever works.

Adam is a dedicated lifelong learner, whether as a technologist, musician, motorcyclist or linguist.

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Kate Czeczot​

Chief Strategy Officer ​

With a background in system design and product management, combined with strong analytical skills, Kate helps RealVNC to make pragmatic strategic choices to drive business transformation and growth. Her result-oriented mindset, combined with reliable execution skills and ability to identify excellence, has proven critical in successfully delivering on numerous initiatives over the years.

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Andrew Woodhouse

Chief Information Officer​

An experienced and versatile technology professional of over 25 years, Andrew has a proven track record of operational excellence and delivering customer delight in roles spanning a range of industries including industrial control, telecommunications, fintech, online media and IT. Andrew combines commercial savvy with technical knowledge.

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Tristan Richardson

With a BA in Computer Science from Cambridge and an MPhil in Computer Speech and Language Processing, Tristan Richardson joined the AT&T Cambridge Laboratory and worked on the protocols which underlie VNC. He was the principal architect of the system, having designed the protocols and written reference implementations for UNIX and Java. He continues to work in the business today.

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Chris Yelland

Chief Finance Officer

For over 20 years Chris has driven growth, return on investment and M&A as a finance leader, VP and CFO in tech organisations. A multi award-winning chartered accountant whose passions outside of work are family, snowboarding and racing sailing dinghies.

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Irina Agafonova

Chief of Staff

Over the last 9 years, Irina was working as a founder and CEO/COO for two start-ups in EdTech/Gaming and HRTech. Prior to that she served as a VP at an international organisation – AIESEC - where she scaled her national chapter into the global Top 5.

Irina holds a PhD in Management from Potsdam University and Moscow Financial University. She has worked in 6 countries, travelled to around 30 and considers herself a global citizen.

Irina is passionate about the UN’s SDGs and social entrepreneurship. In her spare time she learns Greek, reads Dostoevsky, and discovers new hikes around England.

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Gordon Griffin

Head of Engineering

Focused on developing strong, effective technology teams, Gordon leads our teams of talented engineers to build upon RealVNC's strong engineering foundation, powering the company through its evolution. With a background in software development, management and architecture in a series of organisations, from founder-owned to public companies, Gordon creates a coordinated and motivating environment to allow the engineering team to do their best work.

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Joe Medina-Browne

Head of Sales

25 years’ experience of leading and developing customer facing teams, 13 with RealVNC. People person, problem solver, pragmatist. Calm under fire absolutely always.

Joe is an evangelist for the RealVNC project, the people, and product and a firm believer in the real and positive impact we have in the world. He is a profound follower of the Ziglar philosophy; ‘You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want’. If you are a RealVNC customer, partner or team member you have his complete attention.

Bad (but enthusiastic) runner.

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Adele Hiscoe

Head of HR

Adele has worked in HR teams for the last 10 years and knows that a company is nothing without its people! Working with the leaders and managers across the business, Adele and her team develop, refine and bring our HR strategy to life, enabling employees to be successful in their roles whilst hopefully having some fun on the way. Her goal is to ensure that the success of our people remains one of the core features of our growing business. Onboarding passionate and enthusiastic recruits, providing opportunities for development and delivering initiatives to improve employee welfare and D, E & I are key, alongside building a flexible and competitive reward and benefits package.

On a personal note, in her spare time you are likely to find her enjoying food with friends and family or walking her labrador (Willow) in the countryside or on the beach (most likely a combination of the two!).

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Simon Hogarth

Head of Customer Success

With 20+ years’ experience in customer facing and leadership roles, Simon joins RealVNC to drive customer outcomes and deliver an exceptional customer experience for RealVNC’s customers. He is charged with leading customer success, renewals, and expansion worldwide. Hogarth previously held leadership roles at McAfee and CyberArk where he led high performing teams, implementing end-to-end customer lifecycle, along with instilling a customer first mindset across the organisation.