Cassim Ladha
Chief Executive Officer at Griptonite
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolCassim Ladha is a founder-led CEO and movement scientist with 13 years of experience commercialising wearable sensing and analytics for human and animal movement in clinical and sport settings. He built and exited hardware-first ventures—from Axivity’s validated activity monitors to Climbax, the world’s first wearable climbing tracker acquired by MAMMUT—and now leads Griptonite, a data-driven platform for climbing gyms. With a PhD in wireless sensor networks and a background in embedded systems research, he blends deep signal-processing expertise with product and business acumen. Internationally published and a sought-after consultant, he has a track record of turning academic research into robust, market-ready devices and software. Uncommonly, his entrepreneurial path began funding a PhD by running Newcastle’s only cycle-based taxi service, reflecting practical problem-solving and a bias for hands-on execution.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Phd, Wireless Sensor Networks, Phd, Wireless Sensor Networks at Newcastle UniversityQueen Elizabeths Grammar School
Github Skills (13)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
euwen/OM_IMU_matlab
Jul 2013 - Jul 2013
Contributions:6 commits in 1 day
openmovementproject/openmovement
Jun 2013 - Jan 2014
Open Movement devices are miniature, embeddable, open source sensors developed at Newcastle University, UK. The source code for the firmware and software is available under a BSD 2-clause license, and the hardware (PCB designs, layouts and schematics), enclosure designs and documentation are available under a Creative Commons 3.0 BY Attribution License.
Contributions:6 commits, 2 issues in 7 months
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