We are Pureinsights. It’s a pleasure to make your acquaintance.
Pureinsights was founded because we believe the new frontier in search is always there for companies that can combine expert consulting, best-in-class technologies, and managed services to deliver on what users always expect from search applications. “Make it Work like Google.”
Over 20+ years, we have seen every “next big thing” in search, including:
- The emergence (and consolidation) of enterprise search vendors,
- Google’s leadership and dominance in Internet search,
- The open-source revolution, and finally,
- The movement of everything IT to the cloud.
Now, with Generative AI, Natural Language Processing, Vector Search and Knowledge Graphs, search continues to evolve at a tremendous pace. We can contribute to the state of the art and help you with your search application needs.
We are Search and AI experts. It’s what we do. It’s ALL that we do.
And we cannot wait to get started working with you.
Read more about our founding in our inaugural blog.
"Your company, people, knowledge, and efficiency are 'hands-down' the BEST I have ever experienced in my 11 years in the business."
OUR CORE VALUES
Respect and value all equally. Lead and support with compassion. Every voice and every opinion counts. We support good work-life balance, and have no tolerance for politics, hidden agendas.
Act with integrity. We are honest, transparent and committed to doing what’s best for our customers and our company. Building trust builds a better company.
Deliver innovation that matters. Be what’s next. Strive to innovate and push the boundaries of search applications and technology to better meet customer needs
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Be part of something big. Something new.
Professionals at Pureinsights work with state-of-the-art search and AI technologies to help customers add the most sophisticated capabilities to their enterprise search applications.
OUR LEADERSHIP TEAM
Kamran Khan
CEO
Kamran Khan
Chief Executive Officer
As an investor and President & CEO of Pureinsights, Kamran provides the company with clear, pragmatic leadership. Pureinsights helps organizations go “beyond traditional search” by leveraging search and complementary AI technologies such as machine learning, knowledge graphs and natural language processing.
With over 25 years in the search industry, Kamran was a key executive at Convera before co-founding Search Technologies in 2005. The company helped organizations build search-based applications using commercial and open-source search platforms and grew to hundreds of customers and 200 people worldwide before its successful acquisition by Accenture in 2017. Kamran then led Accenture’s Search and Content Analytics practice for three years.
A native of Manchester, UK, but now a US citizen, Kamran graduated from the University of Manchester with an honors degree in Aeronautical Engineering.
Phil Lewis
CTO
Phil Lewis
Chief Technology Officer
Phil is a veteran with over 30 years in the “Cognitive Search” and “Question Answering” domains across multiple industry sectors, including a three-year foray into E-commerce search (B2B and B2C).
Prior to founding Pureinsights, Phil worked for Excalibur Technologies, Convera Corporation, Endeca and Search Technologies. Most recently Phil was Accenture’s Lead Architect for the Search and Content Analytics group in Europe, following its acquisition of Search Technologies in 2017.
Phil finds the art of “cognitive search” and applying leading AI technologies to search projects as exciting now as ever, especially projects that combine modern knowledge graph and NLP technologies with search engines for maximum value and powerful data driven insights. Phil studied Computer Science at Nottingham Trent University.
John Steinhauer
VP OF ENGINEERING
John Steinhauer
Vice President of Engineering
John manages all technical and customer delivery operations at Pureinsights. Known for his hands-on style and attention to detail, John is one of the most experienced project directors in the enterprise search space, having been the driving force behind hundreds of sophisticated search and analytics implementations and software development initiatives.
John has worked in the search industry for 25 years at Excalibur Technologies, Convera, Search Technologies (where he was a founder) and Accenture. John earned an MBA and a Masters in International Relations from Boston University as well as a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Chicago.
Graham Charlesworth
VP OF INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS
Graham Charlesworth
Vice President of International Operations
Graham has been working in enterprise search since 1995 when he joined Excalibur Technologies, a leading search engine vendor (later renamed Convera). By 2006, Graham had risen to Senior VP for Worldwide Sales for Convera and was also responsible for all International Operations.
In 2009, Graham joined Search Technologies, as VP of Europe, responsible for Sales and Operations for the International region. Following the sale of Search Technologies to Accenture, Graham led the Search and Content Analytics group in the International Region. He has an excellent reputation among his clients, and a strategic knowledge of the enterprise search space. Graham studied Mechanical Engineering at Nottingham Trent University.
John Back
VP OF SALES, AMERICAS
John Back
Vice President of Sales, Americas
John leads sales for the Americas at Pureinsights. He has a broad range of enterprise sales experience dating back to the 1980s when he delivered multi-million-dollar integrated systems to government and commercial users.
For the past 20 years, John has been leading national sales teams in the enterprise search industry, initially with Convera and then Fast Search & Transfer before joining Kamran, John, Graham and Phil at Search Technologies. Following the sale of Search Technologies to Accenture, John led the Accenture Search and Content Analytics sales team in the Americas and eventually world-wide. John is a graduate of Rutgers University and holds BA degrees in Computer Science and Economics.
Martin Bayton
DIRECTOR OF INTERNATIONAL MARKETING
Martin Bayton
Director of International Marketing
Martin is responsible for international marketing as Pureinsights continues its expansion into growth markets. He has more than 25 years of experience in marketing software and services and is an evangelist for search and data analytics.
Martin joined Pureinsights from Accenture where he worked for the Search & Content Analytics Group in Applied Intelligence. Prior to Accenture, he was Senior Manager Global OEM Partner Marketing at Qlik. Martin also spent close to 10 years working in business development roles for the enterprise search vendor Convera. Martin brings a valuable combination of marketing skills to Pureinsights including his extensive knowledge of enterprise search, data analytics and cloud computing.
Martin is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. He holds an MBA from Nottingham Business School and a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Nottingham Trent University.
Graham Gillen
VP OF MARKETING
Graham Gillen
Vice President of Marketing
Graham leads marketing and communications at Pureinsights. An “engineer turned marketer”, his broad experience gives him an appreciation for how companies can serve customer and market needs.
Graham worked as an IT consultant and marketing director at Netuitive, VeriSign, webMethods, and Honeywell before joining Search Technologies in 2014 as VP of Marketing. Following its successful acquisition by Accenture in 2017, Graham continued as the marketing lead for Search and Content Analytics until joining Pureinsights.
Graham studied engineering and operations research at the University of Virginia and Georgia Tech, and completed an Executive Marketing program at the UVA Darden School of Business.
Ricardo Leon
Engineering Lead
Ricardo Leon
Engineering Lead
Ricardo Leon is the Engineering Lead at Pureinsights' Development Center in Costa Rica. In this role, he leads the engineering team responsible for delivering innovative search and AI solutions to customers.
With over 15 years of expertise in the search and AI industry, Ricardo has worked as a solutions architect, leveraging his deep technical knowledge to design and implement solutions that meet the unique needs of clients. Prior to his current position, Ricardo spent several years at Search Technologies, which was later acquired by Accenture in 2017. During this time, he spent part of his tenure based in the UK, working closely with current members of Pureinsights' leadership team.
Ricardo is known for his collaborative approach, problem-solving skills, and commitment to delivering exceptional results for his team and customers. Ricardo graduated from Instituto Tecnologico de Costa Rica.
Julian Ramirez
Discovery Product Lead
Julian Ramirez
Discovery Product Lead
With over a decade of experience in data engineering and product development, Julian Ramirez specializes in designing and delivering scalable ETL solutions and data management platforms. Julian’s experience includes roles at Search Technologies, where he contributed on building an ETL framework and content source platform, and Accenture, after the Search Technologies acquisition, where he helped the Search and Content Analytics product development team in delivering high-quality software across multiple industries. Currently, he leads the development of Discovery, Pureinsights data platform that enhances search capabilities and integrates AI-driven insights. His expertise spans cloud infrastructure, search engines, and advanced data processing technologies. Julian holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the Instituto Tecnologico de Costa Rica.
Nereo Campos
DevOps Lead
Nereo Campos
DevOps Lead
Nereo is a DevOps expert with over 15 years of experience, focusing on automation and operational efficiency. Specializing in Linux and multi-cloud architecture (Azure, AWS, GCP), Nereo has extensive expertise in building CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and configuration management. His work spans hybrid and on-premise environments, with a strong emphasis on observability. As a DevOps Manager, he leads the design and delivery of customized DevOps solutions for clients, ensuring operational excellence at every stage.