Engineering Technology Edge
About
Technology Edge is achieved when performance, scalability and technology economics combine to deliver multi-million topline growth, compounding ROI and enduring capability uplift across teams.
As your cloud and AI value partner, Capacitas gets you there faster.
Purpose
Technology has entered a hyper-accelerated era
AI, cloud consumption and rising platform complexity are fundamentally reshaping the economics of business. While unprecedented change brings boundless opportunity, it also introduces risk, disruption and spiralling cost.
But complacency remains the greatest threat.
For more than two decades, CEOs, CTOs, PE operating partners and engineering teams have turned to Capacitas as their cloud and AI value partner. We expose inefficiency, optimise technology, embed capability, and unlock agility, ensuring every unit of investment generates growth, margin expansion and long-term enterprise value.
AI is rewriting the P&L in real-time
Consumption-driven and inherently unpredictable, AI adoption is rapidly introducing cost structures that traditional capacity planning models were never designed to handle. We’ve seen these pressures early in our work with PE-backed businesses.
Across cloud strategy, cost optimisation, FinOps and platform engineering, we optimise platforms, control costs, scale technology, and upskill teams, building the foundations for scalable, high-performing systems in an AI-driven environment.
Then we go further, embedding capability and frameworks that fuse clarity, accountability and agility into every layer of technology operations.
The result: change that endures, value that compounds and advantage that evolves.
Leadership team
Sameena Hassam
Chief Executive Officer
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Pete Clarke
Chair
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Chris Woods
Chief Financial Officer
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Adrian Goodliffe
Chief Commercial Officer
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Thomas Barns
Service Design Director
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Prasham Garg
Service Delivery Director
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Danny Quilton
Co-founder
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Dr. Manzoor Mohammed
Co-founder
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A driving force behind Capacitas’ growth, scaling the business by over 200% while staying relentlessly focused on delivering client outcomes. Sameena partners with organisations across the UK and US to translate cloud and AI adoption into enhanced commercial performance by reducing cost, improving resilience and strengthening platforms at scale. She is committed to driving genuine, lasting impact for clients, not just short-term results.
A seasoned board and private equity leader with more than three decades of experience across software, technology and professional services businesses. Having worked with leadership and investors for more than 30 companies, he brings strategic and commercial discipline to Capacitas, helping ensure the business scales with clarity, resilience and sustained long-term value creation.
A commercially sharp CFO with deep experience in scaling high-growth, recurring revenue businesses. He was previously CFO at YourParkingSpace, where he helped scale the company from a £10m to £125m valuation in under three years. At Capacitas, he oversees financial strategy as the business enters its next phase of growth, with AI-driven services increasingly central to its offering.
Adrian is responsible for our global go-to-market strategy, including marketing, new business, partnerships, and account management. Adrian has held similar positions for several growth-stage technology companies, including IDX, a tech-enabled services business providing a platform-as-a-service digital communications solution, and Grayce, a leading provider of high-quality early careers talent to change and transformation programs. Adrian also previously worked for Accenture, where he was a partner in their technology division.
Adrian is passionate about using technology to improve business performance and creating environments where teams can do their best work.
A hands-on leader with 20 years’ experience designing and scaling complex, mission-critical systems and the organisations that support them. He has led strategic programmes for clients across e-commerce, banking and public infrastructure, including easyJet, Bread Financial and the NHS, scaling Covid testing capability to six million tests per day. He leads the design of services that unlock real value from cloud and AI investments—helping clients reduce cost, improve reliability and build capability in their teams.
Prasham leads client delivery and engagement design at Capacitas, applying rigorous performance thinking to organisations navigating the infrastructure demands of AI adoption. A specialist in capacity modelling and performance engineering, he brings 15+ years’ experience delivering high-impact programmes across aviation, retail and travel, for clients including easyJet, Harrods, and Greene King.
A leading authority in large-scale system performance with 30+ years in high-scale engineering with clients including easyJet, Nomura, HSBC and JD Sports. With deep expertise in performance engineering, capacity and cost modelling across every major technology cycle, Danny brings a rare depth of experience. This uniquely positions him to help organisations tackle the defining engineering challenge of our era – AI.
Manzoor co-founded Capacitas and pioneered its core principle and methodology – treating performance and cost as inseparable. His work has delivered quantifiable impact and value for clients, including Tinder, Qualtrics, Ancestry, and Cegid. He now leads the firm’s thinking on AI infrastructure, applying proven optimisation principles to a new generation of computationally demanding workloads.
The 4 dimensions of Technology Edge
Not all technology transformations create lasting advantage.
Some initiatives deliver fast but shallow gains with limited effort. Others require deeper transformation but unlock enduring, compounding advantage across cost, capability, performance and growth.
Capacitas delivers both the fast wins and the deep transformation.
We don’t just identify where to act, we stay to own the problem, build the solution, and embed the capability to sustain it. Turning recommendations into high-impact, lasting change.
At the core of this approach are the 4Cs of Technology Edge
- 1. Clarity
Clarity of technology spend, risk and value - 2. Control
Control that provides predictability of outcome
- 3. Capability
Capability transfer that strengthens skillsets and mindsets - 4. Commerciality
Commerciality that goes beyond project ROI to compounding competitive advantage
Jeff Laborde
CFO, JAGGAER
Mark Gillet
Managing Director, Silver Lake
Andre Brunetiere
CTO & CPO, Cegid
Capacitas didn’t just help us plan the transition, they helped us reframe how we think about value delivery. What stood out most was their ability to drive a mindset shift across the organisation. Capacitas helped us build a culture that celebrates curiosity, encourages engineers to question, and gives them permission to experiment intelligently. That support helped us not just migrate, but actually realise the full benefits of cloud.
Nik Sathe
CPO & CTO Blackhawk Network; ex-CTO of PayPal, AMEX, VP at Google
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