Tessella

Tessella

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

Tessella is an international analytics and data science consulting services company.

History

Tessella was founded in 1980^[1] by Kevin Gell. Tessella moved to its first permanent office in Abingdon, Oxfordshire in 1987. Tessella established a United States operations in 2004 in Newton MA. 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. In December 2015 Altran acquired Tessella ^[6]

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

Awards and Honours

• 2015 UK IT Awards Highly Commended in the Not for Profit category^[7]

• 2014 UK IT Awards Innovative Mobile App of the Year^[8]

• 2014 Bio-IT World Best Practices Award^[9]

• 2013 European Rail Congress Awards^[10]

• 2011 The National Archives and Tessella win the Queen’s Award for Enterprise Innovation^[11]

• 2009 Bio-IT World Best Practices Award^[12]

• 2012-15 Best Places to Work Ranks Tessella as Outstanding^[13]

References

External links

• Official website