Our Team

Ben Wintour
Co-founder

Ben is a Forbes 30 under 30 entrepreneur with a background in Marketing and Communications. Previously Ben worked both in the UK and in China to develop hard-hitting 360 campaigns for some of the world’s leading brands, including the likes of Amazon, Uber, Nike, General Electric, UBS, Dubai and Diageo.

Ben’s interest in wellbeing was kickstarted when he founded the anti knife crime charity, Steel Warriors. Steel Warriors melts down knives taken off the street and recycles them into free outdoor gyms. The launch of the first Steel Warriors gym reached over 800 million people and has been described by Men’s Health as the best gym in the world. The charity received a multi-million pound investment to build 20 gyms across the UK along with regular mentorship and training sessions.

Ben has led the vision with Temple since inception.

Nikolaz Foucaud
Co-founder

A tech industry veteran, Nikolaz spent 17+ years at Microsoft, building up and incubating new and/or recently acquired businesses across the EMEA region. In his last role at the company he was heading up Customer Success, Specialist / Technical Sales and Cloud Architecture resources across 30+ European countries, serving their top 1,000 customers.

Before that, Nikolaz had served as the Head of Microsoft Incubation across France, the UK and Germany, bringing together emerging teams and technologies from both internal R&D (e.g. Microsoft Azure) as well as external acquisitions (e.g. Yammer, StorSimple). Earlier on Nikolaz had held responsibility for the company's overall efforts in the EMEA Public Safety and cybercrime space.

A passionate people leader and innovator, Nikolaz left Microsoft in 2019 to dedicate his time to mentoring and supporting the growth of early stage start-ups. He joined Temple as a Co-founder in January 2020.

Dr. Becky Inkster
Neuroscientist & Advisor

Dr. Becky Inkster is a Neuroscientist with a strong passion for mental health innovation and all things research.

Dr Inkster obtained her DPhil in psychiatry at Oxford University, and is currently an Honorary research fellow at the University of Cambridge, and Visiting Researcher at the Alan Turing Institute, working on projects across health, finance, artificial intelligence, and policy. She is on the advisory board for Lancet Digital Health and advises global tech companies on their mental health and data science strategies.

In recent years, she has expanded her interests to examine how social media data, and also financial data, could be used in positive ways to help develop innovative strategies for mental health interventions and preventive measures. Dr. Inkster is also a co-founder (with Dr. Akeem Sule) of the social venture, Hip Hop Psych, which seeks to reduce stigma about mental illness through education and engagement.

Joe Wilson
Advisor

Joe is the Founder and CEO of Rise. After growing 5 startups spanning 15 years and 10+ years serving as a General Manager for Microsoft Worldwide, Joe had not only led companies to exit, but had also built and run billion-dollar businesses on the world stage. 

Working directly in Western, Central and Eastern Europe, as well as Asia and the United States, he found a similarity across cultures for what makes some companies succeed and others fail. He became fascinated by this commonality and knew he had to work in that space. Joe’s primary focus is on companies who give back to their industry or are designed around a cause.