Company
Leadership
TriOptimum is led by an Executive Committee that reports to the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and overseen by a Board of Directors, nine of whose eleven members are independent of management.
Executive Committee
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Since 2017
Augustin Treloar
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Augustin Treloar joined TriOptimum Security Products in 1994 as a contracts engineer and ran the division from 2008 to 2013, when he became President and Chief Operating Officer. He has been Chief Executive since 2017 and Chairman since 2019. He studied mechanical engineering at Imperial College London and is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
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Since 2022
Marguerite Oyelaran
President and Chief Operating Officer
Marguerite Oyelaran is responsible for the operations of all six divisions, global supply chain and manufacturing. She led Medical Systems from 2016 to 2022, a period in which the division doubled in size and introduced Arden. Before TriOptimum she spent fourteen years in hospital operations in Lagos, London and Rotterdam.
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Since 2019
Desmond Achterberg
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Desmond Achterberg is responsible for finance, treasury, tax, investor relations and corporate development. He joined TriOptimum as Group Treasurer in 2011 from a European industrial group and became Chief Financial Officer in 2019. He is a chartered accountant.
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Since 2020
Priya Raman
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Priya Raman leads the company’s legal, regulatory, compliance and company secretarial functions. She was previously a partner in the litigation practice of an international law firm in New York and London, and joined TriOptimum as Deputy General Counsel in 2015.
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Since 2018
Dr. Yusuf Brannigan
Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Yusuf Brannigan directs TriOptimum Research Laboratories and the company’s technology strategy, intellectual property and engineering standards. He joined the Laboratories in 1999 as a control-systems researcher and holds 37 patents.
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Since 2026
Helen Strand
Chief Systems Integrity Officer
Helen Strand joined the Executive Committee in October 2026 in a new role with company-wide authority over the maintenance, modification and licensing of autonomous systems. She led the systems assurance group at the Halsworth Institute of Reliability Engineering for eleven years, and began her career at TriOptimum Security Products in 1998, working on AccessNet controller firmware.
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Since 2021
Leonie Marchetti
Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Communications
Leonie Marchetti is responsible for communications, public affairs, brand and the TriOptimum Corporate Archive. She joined from a global engineering consultancy, where she led corporate communications for nine years.
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Since 2020
Anneliese Brandt
Chief People Officer
Anneliese Brandt leads human resources, health and safety, and learning for 118,400 employees. She has worked in Frankfurt, Singapore and Halsworth since joining TriOptimum in 2004.
Division presidents
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Since 2019
Sabine Kowalczyk
President, Security Products
Joined in 2002 from the automotive industry. Led the move of the AccessNet line to the K-Series platform.
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Since 2022
Dr. Kwame Asante
President, Medical Systems
An intensive-care physician by training. Joined the Arden program as clinical lead in 2015.
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Since 2020
Callum Doyle
President, Network Services
Has run networks for TriOptimum since 2001, when he joined the Toronto operations center as a shift engineer.
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Since 2026
Tobias Wendt
Interim President, Orbital & Research Systems
Chief Engineer of Orbital & Research Systems since 2023. Joined in 2004 as a structural engineer on Citadel Station.
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Since 2021
Ingrid Haldane
President, Resources & Materials
A mining engineer who has worked on four continents and, briefly, in orbit. Joined in 1997.
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Since 2018
Rafael Montserrat
President, Agrisystems
Founded a vertical-farming company acquired by TriOptimum in 2012.
Board of Directors
Corporate governance| Director | Committees | Since | Background |
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| Augustin TreloarChairman | — | 2016 | Chief Executive Officer of TriOptimum. |
| Dame Philippa AncrumLead Independent Director · Independent | Systems Safety and Licensing (Chair), Nominating and Governance | 2015 | Former Permanent Secretary of a UK government department responsible for science and infrastructure. |
| Catherine VosDirector · Independent | Audit (Chair), Compensation | 2018 | Former Chief Financial Officer of a Dutch shipping and logistics group. |
| Dr. Rohan MehtaDirector · Independent | Science and Technology (Chair), Systems Safety and Licensing | 2020 | Former Chief Executive of a semiconductor manufacturer; visiting professor of electrical engineering. |
| Ingeborg LundDirector · Independent | Compensation (Chair), Audit | 2017 | Former head of human resources at a Scandinavian telecommunications company. |
| Sir David PenhallowDirector · Independent | Nominating and Governance (Chair) | 2012 | Former Chairman of a British aerospace group. |
| Laura CastellanosDirector · Independent | Audit, Systems Safety and Licensing | 2021 | Former Chief Information Security Officer of a global bank. |
| Dr. Amara NwosuDirector · Independent | Science and Technology, Compensation | 2022 | Professor of public health; former director of a national medical devices regulator. |
| Kenji MorisakiDirector · Independent | Science and Technology, Nominating and Governance | 2019 | Former President of a Japanese industrial automation company. |
| Thomas ReinholtDirector · Independent | Audit | 2024 | Former partner of an international accounting firm. |
| Marguerite OyelaranDirector | — | 2023 | President and Chief Operating Officer of TriOptimum. |