What is Kyne?
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Amy Stell
Technical Cofounder
Amy is a talented computer scientist with expertise in coding and machine learning. She is our in-house developer and can turn around iterations at the drop of a hat.
Livvy Rowe
Classroom Advisor
The Team
Livvy is a Tedd Wragg teacher of excellence. She is driven by a passion for nurturing children's futures, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds. Livvy is our eyes and ears in the classroom.
Chris Plews
Financial Cofounder
Chris Plews is a semi-retired finance director with 25 years of experience at a £10m turnover SME. He was looking for a way to use his talent for social good when he found Kyne.
Luke Lang
Business Advisor
Luke is a founder, chairman, NED, advisor and mentor. He co-founded Crowdcube, a pioneer of equity crowdfunding, which has raised over £1 billion for high growth European businesses such as Monzo, Revolut, BrewDog, Pod Point and Mindful Chef.
He was named by Debrett’s as one of Britain’s 500 most influential people, EY Entrepreneur Of The Year for London and the South and was selected as one of The Sunday Times ‘Maserati 100’ game-changing entrepreneurs.
Luke is passionate about purpose-led businesses who are on a mission to make a difference.
Ray Staines
Founder
Ray was a badly behaved underachiever at school. He left in 1973 with no qualifications, poor mental health and poor employment prospects. He drifted into drugs and alcohol and by age 21 he found himself in hospital after an acute psychotic episode. This turned out to be a reset moment that changed his life: In a moment of clarity, he recognised that from this low point, the only way was up and started to rebuild his life from scratch. Fast forward to 1998 and Ray was a professional yachtsman running a charter business in the Caribbean and an amateur pilot.
At age 39, recognising that the education system had let him down, he enrolled as a mature student. He was subsequently diagnosed with dyslexia and Language Processing Disorder. This was an epiphany for Ray and he realised that he could have been a scientist or an engineer if he hadn't been excluded due to undiagnosed dyslexia.
When he found out that as recently as 2021 80% of dyslexia goes undiagnosed in schools, he was inspired to develop a solution. The result is Kyne.