Discover Who We Are
Our Solution
Encapsulating Trust - The immutable linking of a unique digital record, incorporating its identity, intrinsic value and all associated affinity data, Digital Cognate is a trusted, resilient and transparent solution that enables real time controlled-access to critical business insights and data.

Our Reasons Why
Our Purpose
Securing data integrity for the long term
Our Mission
To ensure absolute trust and certainty in the critical data that sits at the heart of complex multi-party processes, transactions and agreements
Our Vision
Encapsulating trust for everyone, everywhere
Our Values
Our People
Digital Cognate is driven by a strong team of genuine sector experts andworld-class technology specialists, alongside experienced and commercially astute business leaders.

Dr. David Landsman OBE
Chairman

Paul McCarthy
Chief Executive Officer

Stephen O'Donnell
Chief Technology Officer

Lesley Leone
Chief Operations Officer and Co-Fund

Simon Rendell
Legal Advisor

Jon Cooper
Chief Finance Officer and Company Secretary
Our Heritage
Digital Cognate was founded in 2018 by Philip Leone, a serial entrepreneur with a career in technology and finance. His goal was to build a new generation of software to embed real trust in operations and transactions across multiple sectors. Philip sadly passed away in September 2021 after a short illness.
The team at Digital Cognate remain determined and committed to continue Philip’s legacy and achievements.
Our Partners
Digital Cognate’s technology has been developed in close collaboration with some of the world’s leading tech companies and potential end-users, to ensure that it meets real needs head-on.
This includes a number of blue-chip key players including
AWS, CMS Law, Fujitsu, Helecloud, KPMG, PwC and TALL Group.
Digital Cognate’s business model is to license its software to channel partners who will remain the first point of contact with their customers.
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Our Commitment to Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG)
Digital Cognate is a responsible business, committed to playing our part for a better future, with our corporate values of Trust, Learning, Leadership, Responsible and Accessibility sitting at the heart of our innovation and sustainability aspirations.
Digital Cognate supports the delivery of the United Nations Global Compact and the achievement of its Sustainability Development Goals. We are contributing to the realisation of these goals through the solutions we deliver and the way in which we do business.
Trust sits at the core of our solution and is built into everything that we do. Digital Cognate’s technology ensures that complete and trustworthy data is fully accessible to all parties involved in operations or transactions. Trust Informs critical decision making and reduces both risk and cost, benefitting individuals, businesses, society and the environment as a whole.
With our solutions, data is globally accessible, immediately available anytime of day or night and without restriction for permissioned access holders. This facilitates flexible and remote working from anywhere in the world.
At Digital Cognate, we are committed to reducing waste, increasing our use of renewable and recycled / recyclable resources and maximising efficiency.
Using only green energy to power our business and a cloud-based approach to hosting our platform and solutions, we are minimising the carbon footprint of our operations. Digital Cognate solutions are broadly carbon neutral compared with legacy systems while enhancing trust as a key ESG enabler. Cloud-hosted solutions generate an estimated -88% carbon footprint versus traditional data centres (AWS Cloud Enterprise Strategy Blog: IT and ESG: How IT can and must further the company’s ESG efforts, by Mark Schwartz February 2022).
At Digital Cognate we are an equal opportunities organisation and fully embed both the actions and principles of diversity, inclusivity and belonging. We are also committed to the training, investment in and personal development of our staff, encouraging flexible working and a focus on mental health and well-being.