We are dedicated to helping our users better serve their clients by transforming the way claims are completed. Relying on decades of experience building tax software (our team are behind two market leading tax software products) we set out to build an in house solution to help improve the process of managing tax relief claims for our internal team of R&D consultants.
Our team is driven by a passion for innovation and a deep understanding of the unique needs of consultants and accountants. We believe that claim preparation should not be a tedious and cumbersome task, but rather an engaging experience that enables professionals to focus on what they do best - helping their clients claim R&D tax reliefs.
Join us on this exciting journey as we revolutionise the world of R&D tax relief claim preparation and help drive more businesses towards innovation.
Tom, a co-founder of Novel, brings over ten years of extensive industry experience and a deep understanding of R&D tax relief. His passion for supporting small businesses and fostering innovation led him and the team to create a codified solution in the form of Novel's innovative R&D tax relief software platform. Beyond Novel, Tom actively engages with industry stakeholders and hopes to drive positive change to enhance the R&D tax relief landscape.
Ben has over ten years’ experience working with SMEs across all areas of business structuring, accounting and tax. His aim is to support business consultants and their customers with educational software products that allow traditionally manual processes to be completed more accurately and much more efficiently. Through automation, he hopes that business consultants will be able to help many more businesses, and provide a better service at a lower cost. Novel is the first of these products.
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Ellis has been building technology teams for more than five years. His expertise across all software engineering domains allows him to build out of the box enterprise level solutions using a range of technologies that are effective, secure and reliable. He aims to create platforms that revolutionise the R&D and tax sector by making it more accessible through cutting edge technology and continuous automation.
Alan has been in SaaS for over ten years helping to build commercial teams from early series A to later stages of growth. Having worked with innovation teams, he’s passionate about assisting client's to help boost technology advancement. Recognising that R&D tax software can help streamline our clients processes and ensure that they are compliant with the ever-evolving legislations. His aim is to help our customers achieve this.
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As the resident creative, Sanela is in charge of translating all of the abstract ideas and legislation into friendly software design. As a visual learner herself and someone who lives the quote, 'a picture is worth a thousand words', she believes that anything and everything should be presented in a visually striking way, especially something as dry as legislation.
Andy has been into tech from the days of his N64 and as a keen problem solver, backend engineering is the perfect union. He loves the repeatability and simplicity the cloud provides, making deploying and testing new features for Novel a breeze. He is also interested in developer experience and wants to make life easier for all the developers (and himself) within the team.
Jón’s childhood fascination for toxicology lead him towards his pharmaceutical studies, and to becoming a ward-based clinical pharmacist. Although he continues to be a qualified pharmacist, specialising in innovation reliefs for companies in the biosciences, he joined our team at Novel to help accountants and tax advisers develop their own R&D tax relief service using our platform.
Sergej is passionate about writing beautiful and efficient code that translates into intuitive and user-friendly software solutions. He can often be found bickering with the UX designer over the correct shades of blue but as someone who never gives up on a problem, he is one of the most resilient and patient front end developers we’ve ever met.
Hafid joins Novel armed with more than two decades of experience across a range of industries, predominantly aviation and publishing. Applying pen to paper, Hafid has been focusing on our educational content. He believes companies can rely on Novel’s guided approach to claiming tax relief whilst knowing it’s backed by experts if things get tricky.
Brian is a software developer with a focus on web development and big data. He writes modern and maintainable code, and loves learning the latest technologies. His knowledge of Companies House and his fine attention to detail makes working on Novel a great fit. He delights in creating robust software that reduces manual tasks for users by automation.
Belle comes from a strong academic background in science which fuelled her interest in innovation across a variety of different sectors. Recognising the transformative impact a R&D tax relief software can offer in improving services to clients, she became part of the Novel team. Here, she assists consultants and accountants in preparing R&D claims through the platform.