The expertise behind UDISAS
UDISAS brings together experience across needs assessment, disability support, software engineering, organisational operations, commercial development, and communications.
The team combines different responsibilities around a shared purpose: improving the information and understanding behind support decisions.
Meet the people behind UDISAS
Robin Hodges
Chief Executive Officer & Founder
Robin conceived UDISAS and has led its design and development, drawing on 16 years of professional needs assessment experience and more than 4,500 completed assessments. He designed the original assessment framework and authored its initial content, informed by sustained work across disability support, assistive technology, and higher education. As Chief Executive Officer, Robin leads organisational strategy, product direction, governance, partnerships, and business development, while helping to keep development grounded in the practical realities of assessment and support.
William Mayor
Chief Technology Officer & Founder
William leads the engineering and technical direction of UDISAS. He holds an MSc in Computer and Information Systems Security from UCL and has extensive experience building accessible web applications, APIs, backend services, and systems designed with data protection in mind. As Chief Technology Officer and co-founder, he has built the platform's technical infrastructure and computational framework, working across architecture, security, accessibility, reliability, and product implementation. His role is to translate the assessment design into dependable technology that can evolve responsibly as the platform develops.
Pip Leaver
Chief Operations Officer
Pip leads operational delivery, governance, and organisational development. Her background spans organisational change, customer experience transformation, financial management, risk oversight, and regulatory alignment. As Chief Operations Officer, she helps coordinate priorities, strengthen operating processes, and consider decisions from delivery, compliance, and sustainability perspectives. Her work connects the organisation's strategic ambitions with the structures and oversight needed to develop UDISAS responsibly.
Antony Ruck
Chief Commercial Officer
Antony leads commercial strategy and market development. He has worked in assistive technology since 1999 and is Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Aventido and Board Co-President of DATEurope. As Chief Commercial Officer, he brings extensive knowledge of the assistive technology sector, stakeholder relationships, market development, and partnership building. His role connects UDISAS with organisations, practitioners, and opportunities where its approach may create practical value.
Jude Schweppe
Chief Marketing Officer
Jude leads the brand, marketing, and communications direction of UDISAS. Her background includes brand management, creative consultancy, and communication coaching. As Chief Marketing Officer, she shapes how the organisation explains its purpose, platform, and value to different audiences, and guides messaging, campaigns, and creative direction. Her work helps translate complex assessment and technology concepts into clear, coherent communications and supports relationships with individuals, institutions, partners, and other stakeholders.
Our collaborative approach
Grounded in practice
Assessment experience and ongoing engagement with the disability support sector help keep discussion connected to real activities, barriers, support decisions, and professional contexts.
Tested across disciplines
Assessment design, engineering, operations, commercial context, and communications each raise different questions. Bringing them together helps the team identify assumptions, dependencies, and practical consequences.
Developed responsibly
The team balances improvement and growth with attention to accessibility, security, governance, evidence, and the appropriate place for human expertise.
The strength of the UDISAS team lies not only in individual experience, but in how those perspectives are combined.
Speak with the team
Contact UDISAS if you would like to discuss an assessment, organisational use, a potential partnership, research, media, or another enquiry.