Tessella

Tessella Ltd

Type	Private
Industry	Software Science, Engineering
Founded	Oxfordshire, England (1980)
Key people	Kevin Gell, Founder, Chairman – Alan Gaby, Group Chief Executive
Website	tessella.com

Tessella is an international analytics, technology and consultancy firm specialising in R&D.

History

Tessella was founded in 1980^[1] by Kevin Gell. Tessella moved to its first permanent office in Abingdon, Oxfordshire in 1987. Tessella purchased Analyticon in 2005.^[2] In 2009^[3] Tessella expanded its services to include consulting. In July 2012 Tessella existing management team completed a management buy-out.^[4] Mobeus Equity Partners supported the buyout and founder Kevin Gell retained a significant minority stake plus continues to serve as a board member. Since the MBO, Tessella has expanded its consulting and technology services to explicitly include analytics^[5] as a core capability, channeling the hi-tech experience gained supporting clients in big science, space & defense and similarly data-rich industries.

Operations

Tessella has offices in US, UK and Holland.

Tessella operates in the following industries:

- Aeronautics, Space and Defence
- Consumer Goods
- Financial Services
- Life Sciences
- Oil and Gas
- Science Research
- Tessella's Preservica subsidiary provides digital preservation technology

Awards and Honours

2014 UK IT Awards Innovative Mobile App of the Year^[6]

2014 Bio-IT World Best Practices Award^[7]

2013 European Rail Congress Awards^[8]

2011 The National Archives and Tessella win the Queen’s Award for Enterprise Innovation^[9]

2009 Bio-IT World Best Practices Award^[10]

2012-15 Best Places to Work Ranks Tessella as Outstanding^[11]

References

External links

Official website