The team

Rob leads the commercial side of SalusBridge. With 15 years leading people strategy, including HR leadership at UK scale-ups and listed businesses such as Accenture, Thomson Reuters, Nutmeg, RateSetter and MetroBank, he has supported senior leaders through high growth, restructures, acquisitions and post-merger integration.

He is drawn to mission-led, people-centred businesses where performance and people both flourish, and he has seen how often that breaks down when someone's health affects their work. Too many absence and adjustment cases are still run on a spreadsheet, documents and goodwill.

He co-founded SalusBridge to change that: managers guided at each step, adjustments agreed and recorded, and return-to-work plans agreed, so support is better for the colleague and better for the employer.

Outside work, Rob chairs the Board of Trustees of the Pearce Coggan Foundation, which helps people who might otherwise find it hard to get outside, get active and connect with nature.

Richard leads the technical side of SalusBridge, from architecture through hands-on build. He has spent more than 15 years building and running software companies: he founded Innovasys, whose developer tools shipped alongside Microsoft Visual Studio, and led it to acquisition in 2021, then built the technology behind a self-service health platform running in over 200 GP surgeries, integrated with NHS clinical systems, exiting the business in 2023.

Most recently he has led the AI-first transformation of a specialist consultancy and built production AI systems with human review and verifiable evidence at their core. At SalusBridge he combines healthcare-grade engineering with AI-first development, backed by two exits across developer tools and healthcare.