Daniel Okafor
Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer
Daniel began as a reliability engineer in pulp and paper and building materials, running maintenance on continuous-process lines where an unplanned stop meant scrapped product by the ton. That work taught him that the best maintenance program is the one operators trust, and that trust comes from alerts that are rare, explained and right. At Perflens he sets strategy, reviews every proposal and spends part of most weeks on customer sites. He writes Field Notes on microstops, pilots and pricing.
Mara Lindqvist
Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer
Mara is a computer-vision engineer who built inspection systems for high-speed packaging and pharmaceutical lines, where a missed defect can trigger a recall and every false reject throws away good product. She leads architecture for the Perflens Edge Stack and the private vision-language copilot, from how a Lensnode captures a frame to how Console explains a decision. Her test in every design review is simple. If an operator can't tell why the system decided, the design isn't finished.
Theo Ramírez
VP of Engineering, Edge Hardware
Theo is an embedded and rugged-compute specialist who has designed enclosures and power systems for equipment that lives in heat, dust and washdown. He leads the team behind Gatepoint and Lensnode, covering compute selection across NVIDIA Jetson, Hailo and Qualcomm platforms, thermal design, sealing, power and connectors. He would rather a design fail in the lab than in a cabinet beside an oven, and he owns the lifecycle plan behind our 7-year supply commitment.
Priya Venkataraman
Head of Machine Learning
Priya specializes in anomaly detection, few-shot learning and synthetic data — the methods that matter when a plant has thousands of good parts and a handful of bad ones. She owns the Perflens model cards, the drift monitor and the retraining pipeline that Perflens Care runs on. Every model her team releases carries a written baseline, its known limits and a retraining trigger. Her Field Notes cover model drift, choosing a defect model and when generated defect images help.
Jonah Whitfield
Director of Field Engineering
Jonah has spent twenty-five years commissioning automation — PLCs, drives, vibration analysis and the wiring in between. He leads installation and factory and site acceptance testing, and he set the PLC handshake patterns every Perflens inspection cell uses. On site, his first question is what the line does when the system fails; his second is who will be on shift when it does. He writes about retrofits, reject gates and the vibration spectra worth recognizing.
Alicia Brandt
Head of Security
Alicia works on OT network security and secure product development. She leads device hardening, network segmentation, SBOMs and vulnerability handling across the Edge Stack, and she reads the security questionnaires your IT team sends us. She keeps our remote-access model simple enough to draw on one page — outbound only, logged, and off when you switch it off. Her Field Notes cover hardening edge devices in line with IEC 62443 and sensing buildings without surveillance.
Samuel Achterberg
Principal Optical Engineer
Samuel designs lenses and illumination, and runs the optics lab where Feasibility Sprint samples are imaged. In his experience most inspection problems are lighting problems first, because the right geometry turns a defect that barely registers into one any model can find. He tries low-angle, dome, backlight, polarized and strobed setups on real parts before anyone trains a model, and writes about lighting geometry and hyperspectral imaging for foreign-material detection.
Grace Nakamura-Hill
Head of Customer Care
Grace runs Perflens Care — the analyst desk that verifies alerts, the monthly health reports and the training every customer team receives at handover. She judges the desk on two things, how quickly a Severity 1 call reaches a qualified engineer and how few unverified alerts land on a maintenance planner's desk. She also owns refresher training when shifts change or new lines go live, and writes about compressed-air leaks and what a minute of downtime really costs.
