103 mOrganisational
Business
- 2012the year he founded ORB Group; he has led companies ever since
- 8countries where companies he founded or leads have been registered
- 40+people on NDB’s team at once, at its peak in 2021
- 5accelerators he has mentored in, for the US Army and NASA
Companies
Founded, built and led
- Founder and CEO · Since 2019
NDB
Nuclear voltaic power sources: batteries that run on radioactive decay. He built it from nothing into a remote-first company with science, engineering, software, design, legal and compliance teams.
United States · United Kingdom · Australia · Portugal
- CEO · Since 2023
NuBatt
Takes nuclear voltaic power sources from the laboratory towards products, from Singapore.
Singapore
- Founder; CEO, then chairman · Since 2012
ORB Group
An international trading and technology group. He founded it in 2012, ran it as CEO until 2018 and has chaired it since. In 2018 its London office was in The Shard.
United Kingdom · Turkey · Kenya
Director of ORB Global Ltd since its incorporation, 30 October 2012 (Companies House)
- Founder and CEO
OrbVPN
A VPN and network-security service he designed from the product down: he specified the billing, the authentication and the apps, and directed the developers who built them. Relaunched with new iOS and Android apps.
United Kingdom · Estonia
More than 10,000 downloads on Google Play
- Co-founder · 2022
Gammanics
Green hydrogen from waste, with heat from nuclear waste driving a plasma torch. Chosen for the Techstars accelerator in Paris in 2022.
United Kingdom · Singapore
Building teams
NDB, built from nothing
He hired and led a remote-first team across the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Europe: scientists, engineers, software developers, designers, and people in legal and compliance. At its peak in mid-2021 more than 40 were working on it at once, and over five years about 235 people, staff, contractors and interns, joined it.
- 40+working at once, mid-2021
- 235people joined the team, 2019 to 2024
- 100+internships, with Erasmus+ trainees and students from UCL’s School of Management among them
Mentoring
Mentor to founders
From 2021 to 2024 he mentored start-up teams in five accelerators that FedTech runs for the US Army and NASA. At NDB he ran an internship programme that brought university students and graduates into real research and engineering work.
- 2021
xTech Energy Accelerator. Mentor to a finalist team in the US Army's xTech energy accelerator.
- 2021
Army Applied SBIR Accelerator, Cohort 2. Paired with a start-up taking its technology to the Army.
- 2022
xTechInternational. Mentor to a team in the Army's international technology accelerator.
- 2022
Army Applied SBIR Accelerator, Cohort Delta. Paired with a start-up, and thanked by FedTech for it at the close.
- 2024
NASA Startup Studio. Weekly mentor, from May to September, to a team bringing NASA-licensed technology to market.
Hands-on
The engineer, and the paperwork
Engineering, led from the inside
At OrbVPN he specified the billing, the authentication and the apps, and directed the developers who built them. At NDB, software and engineering were the two largest teams he built. He still writes the code himself: 17,341 commits under his own GitHub account.
The law his companies run on
- Patents
He writes the technical disclosures patent attorneys draft from, and works with them on strategy in the US and Singapore: restriction requirements, office actions and freedom-to-operate reviews. Named inventor on 14 US patent publications, two of them granted.
- Contracts
Non-disclosure and technology-assignment agreements drafted for his companies; contractor agreements and IP deeds reviewed and worked up for counsel's final word.
- Companies
Companies formed and their statutory filings made himself, from Companies House in London to ACRA in Singapore.
No law degree, and he doesn’t act as a lawyer: he works alongside counsel, fluent in their language.
Consulting · 2026
Kameli Law
Chicago and New York
Technology and AI for a US law firm: he rebuilt its website, carried its search-ranked pages across, and brings AI tools into the firm's daily work.
Work with Nima
Strategy sessions, advisory, software builds and speaking. Every enquiry gets a reply within two working days.