Meet Our Team

Meet Datambit’s core team—experts driving innovation in deepfake detection and AI security.

Dr Ashima Chopra

Dr Ashima Chopra brings three decades of international experience in technology and innovation research. She has led digital banking transformations for Open Banking, applied technology to enhance commodity markets, supervised over 140 Master’s projects in AI and digital technologies at UK universities, and contributed to innovation in both hardware and software.

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder

Sadip Wagle

Lead Solutions Architect and Co-Founder

Sadip Wagle brings 9+ years’ experience in software engineering and AI, with a Master’s from Coventry University and NVIDIA AI Professional Certification. At Datambit, he leads development of multi-modal deepfake detection systems and oversees architecture, data, model training, optimisation, and deployment.

Dr Cristina Alexandra Trifan

Dr Cristina Alexandra Trifan is a culturally agile strategist and interdisciplinary researcher with a background in digital narratives, decolonising methodologies, and over a decade of experience leading international projects and working with organisations across Europe and the Asia-Pacific. At Datambit, Alexandra leads stakeholder engagement, marketing, strategic product development, and research innovation in deepfake detection, AI governance, and compliance, overseeing the full project life cycle from bidding to delivery.

Principal Project Manager and Lead Researcher

Margaux Leblanc

Margaux Leblanc has a background in AI research and development, investigating topics at the intersection of AI safety and security, disinformation and deception for UK government partners.  She holds a Master's in Social and Geographic Data Science from UCL. At Datambit, Margaux builds and deploys robust and scalable deepfake detection solutions for stakeholders.

Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Karishma Naravane

Karishma Naravane is an experienced UK corporate lawyer offering commercial and practical legal advice to companies at all stages, including early-stage, fast-growing businesses, SMEs, and large corporates, as well as to founders and investors. Clients range from high-growth businesses to international conglomerates, spanning a variety of sectors. With over a decade of experience advising on corporate legal matters at Allen & Overy (now A&O Shearman), Karishma now independently advises companies and clients on their scale-up journeys.

General Council

Ramesh Radhakrishnan

Advisory Board

Ramesh Radhakrishnan is a graduate of IIT Madras with a Master’s in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. An entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in technology and healthcare, he co-founded four successful Silicon Valley startups - Zeitnet, Clarity Wireless, Airgo Networks, and FireEye - each acquired or publicly listed. Formerly with Hewlett Packard, he holds several patents in networking, security, and wireless technologies. Ramesh is currently a partner at Artiman Capital India, investing in early-stage technology and healthcare ventures globally.

Dr James Wallace

Advisory Board

Dr James Wallace is a Professor and member of PRIMAL, an international research network led by the University of Paris. Formerly in industry, he now works on mentoring projects in collaboration with France’s CFDT union. A Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and member of several academic associations, he has also advised a range of public and private sector organisations, including the NHS, British Gas, and Land Registry NI. Professor James Wallace is a mathematician and statistician with over 62 publications in world-leading journals, and is appointed by Datambit’s to ensure the hygiene and non-bias of Datambit’s deepfake detection models.

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