Meet our founders

Richmond is an engineering and operations leader with over 25 years of hands-on experience across deepwater and onshore oilfield systems. As Chief Executive Officer at AutoSafeX, he directs the strategic vision and operational architecture of the company’s AI-powered safety and compliance ecosystem, applying decades of field experience to ensure the platform reflects real operational constraints and industrial-grade reliability.

 

His expertise spans drilling engineering, well system design, downhole technologies, production optimization, intervention methods, and the full lifecycle of high-complexity field execution. He has led large multidisciplinary engineering teams, managed multimillion-dollar programs for major operators including ExxonMobil, Shell, Total, and British Gas, and built a high-performance energy services organization from the ground up. Richmond’s work reflects deep technical mastery and execution-driven leadership, enabling AutoSafeX to bridge advanced machine intelligence with field-ready safety infrastructure built for demanding industrial environments.

David is a growth and operations leader with over a decade of experience driving strategy, financial discipline, and execution across large-scale industrial and environmental programs. As Chief Growth Officer at AutoSafeX, he leads commercial strategy, market development, and partnership design for the company’s AI-driven safety and compliance ecosystem, ensuring expansion is grounded in operational realities and measurable business outcomes.

 

His expertise spans financial modeling, valuation, and due diligence from his work at KPMG and other leading advisory environments, alongside vendor ecosystem management and end-to-end delivery of multi-stakeholder initiatives. He has overseen high-impact operational projects, guided cross-functional teams, and consistently translated analytical insights into practical growth strategies. David’s work reflects deep analytical rigor and an execution-focused approach, strengthening AutoSafeX’s ability to scale advanced safety technologies and build durable market partnerships.

Rashmi is a product systems leader with over nine years of hands-on experience in designing and scaling enterprise SaaS platforms for high-stakes industrial environments. As Chief Product Officer at AutoSafeX, she defines the product vision and system architecture of the company’s AI-powered safety and compliance ecosystem, integrating field-level operational realities into software that is secure, resilient, and operationally precise.

 

Her expertise spans product strategy, human-systems design, distributed systems architecture, and end-to-end delivery of mission-critical tools. She has built and led high-performance product teams, executed complex platform architectures, and consistently transformed ambiguous safety and compliance challenges into stable, scalable, user-validated solutions. Rashmi’s work reflects deep domain understanding and a practical, execution-driven approach to advancing industrial safety technology.