Ian Hepworth
Founder and CEO
Ian founded LuxeLegs and leads its product and technology. He has more than 30 years in enterprise software, including 15 years as a CTO and in other senior leadership roles, building business software from scratch and taking over established products.
He has led the technology side of successful exits in maritime, automotive and compliance software, and of more than 20 acquisitions and integrations, with exits worth over $2bn in total across FTSE, private equity and venture-backed companies.
He is a board adviser and AI strategy consultant to NexaQuanta, an AI product and software delivery firm, and advises listed financial services businesses on technology, data and AI. He also holds fractional CTO roles.
He works hands on with cloud software on AWS, data and applied AI, and has run engineering teams across the UK, Europe, the US, the Far East and India.
Duncan Wallace
Chief Revenue Officer
Duncan has spent more than 30 years at board level, specialising in operations, partner management and bringing products to market around the world.
He has set up new businesses from scratch in the UK, Europe, South Africa, Japan, Australia and the USA. He has worked in both the public and private sectors, for some of the world’s largest companies in telecoms, travel, utilities, retail, banking, financial services and insurance, and medical technology.
Alongside building delivery through partners, he has worked on mergers, acquisitions and institutional funding. At LuxeLegs he leads revenue, from operator and partner relationships to commercial growth.
Duncan holds an MBA from the University of Adelaide and is an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Marketing.
Jay Mulunga
Chief Marketing Officer
Jay has more than 20 years in marketing, data and system change. He specialises in winning customers and automating marketing.
He builds and runs marketing for UK businesses in luxury retail, childcare, the trades and aesthetics, managing their paid social, search, email and CRM.
Most of his earlier career was in energy. He spent 12 years in utilities, starting as a data analyst and becoming lead trainer on the UK’s national smart metering programme, then moved into compliance on the energy trading side of one of the world’s largest energy companies.
He also designs and builds AI systems that take routine marketing and operations work off a team. At LuxeLegs he leads marketing.