About Cognitive HealthTech
Cognitive HealthTech brings together lived experience, healthcare leadership, scientific research and technology to develop a more personal way of understanding cognitive change.
Our story
Victoria Burnip, Co-Founder & CEO.
Cognitive HealthTech began with Victoria Burnip, and with a question she kept returning to across two decades of working in health, social care and dementia support.
Victoria grew up close to NHS mental-health care through her mother’s work as an NHS clinical lead. Later, supporting loved ones through a range of cognitive challenges, she saw the same pattern from the other side: fragmented pathways, long waits, and assessments that captured a single moment rather than the shape of a life. Cognitive change rarely announces itself in a clinic room. It shows up quietly, in conversation, in routine, in the things people who know you notice first.
She brought that experience together with more than twenty years of healthcare, social-care and innovation leadership, including cognitive rehabilitation delivered inside NHS referral pathways. The conviction was straightforward: understanding cognitive health should be more continuous, more personal, and closer to everyday life.
Working with Professor Christian Morgner and academic partners, that conviction became a research-led behavioural framework, designed around natural interaction and individual baselines rather than one-off testing. It is an approach intended to support people and clinicians with a clearer picture over time, developed carefully and evidenced as it goes.
“I have lived the anxiety of the waiting room, the frustration of fragmented care, and the painful gaps in standard assessment pathways.”
Our team
Cognitive HealthTech brings together expertise across healthcare, research, clinical practice, data science, software development and product delivery.
Co-Founder & CEO
Victoria brings over 20 years' leadership experience across health, social care and NHS-linked innovation. She leads CHT's strategy, partnerships and commercial growth, combining lived experience with a long-standing focus on improving how cognitive change is understood.
Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer
Christian brings more than 15 years of interdisciplinary research experience across dementia, behavioural analysis, digital health and AI-supported care. He leads CHT's scientific methodology and research architecture, helping translate academic evidence into real-world cognitive-health innovation.
Chief Technical Officer
Rob is an experienced AI and technology leader with a strong track record in secure platforms, data-driven systems and advanced software architecture. At CHT, he leads technical development, product refinement and the translation of research into operational technology.
Technical Lead & System Architect
Jon designs and delivers scalable AI-powered systems across healthcare, aerospace and smart environments. His expertise spans edge computing, computer vision, system architecture and regulatory compliance, with a focus on building secure, robust and future-ready technology.
Software Developer
Akiva is a software developer focused on building clean, practical and reliable digital solutions. He brings a hands-on approach to software engineering, problem-solving and product development, supporting the technical build and ongoing evolution of the CHT platform.
Strategic Partnerships & Growth
Helen combines frontline clinical nursing experience with senior leadership in healthy ageing and healthtech innovation. Her background spans NHS care, UKRI and Innovate UK programmes, commercial strategy and inclusive innovation, supporting CHT's partnerships and growth.
Lead Product & Implementation Manager
Rachel is an experienced occupational and psychological therapist with almost 30 years across health and social care. She brings deep clinical insight and a strong focus on translating complex healthcare needs into safe, accessible and person-centred digital solutions.
Data Scientist
Muntazir is a data scientist supporting the development and analysis of CHT's behavioural and cognitive data. His work contributes to the platform's evolving analytical capability, helping turn complex real-world information into structured and meaningful insight.
Advisors
CHT is supported by experienced advisers across neuroscience, dementia, innovation, regulation, finance and investment.
Neuroscientist; Professor of Translational Clinical / Healthcare Research
Teesside University
Dementia Lead / Head of Integrated Science
SHLS Life Sciences Centre for Biodiscovery, Teesside University
TEDI Network / Psychology & Clinical Languages
Northumbria University
CEO
Dementia Forward
Health Innovation Network
Quality, Regulation & Legal
Finance
Investor
Our journey
Literature review and early framework development shaped the questions Cognitive HealthTech set out to explore.
Peer-reviewed work and academic collaboration continue to ground the approach in research.
Behavioural indicators and cognitive-domain structure have been refined around natural interaction and personal baselines.
Real-world data collection and AI development are informing the next stage of the behavioural framework.
Engagement with PCNs, GP practices and clinical and research communities is helping test the relevance of the work in context.
Prototype, MVP and data-visualisation work are bringing the research-led approach into a practical experience.
Validation activity is in progress, with further work planned as the evidence base develops.
Governance, clinical safety and the regulatory pathway are in progress alongside product and evidence development.
Wider collaboration
Cognitive HealthTech has developed through engagement with academic, healthcare, innovation and community organisations.
Organisations shown reflect research, healthcare, innovation or ecosystem relationships. The nature of each relationship varies.
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