Mike Hopewell brings over 25 years of experience in technology and consulting, helping businesses grow by building strong teams and delivering real results. He’s held senior roles at Gartner, Cognizant, and UST Global, where he led major growth initiatives across both the U.S. and Europe.

At UST, Mike transformed the UK business from a small operation into a major European hub, guiding it through a shift to digital-first services and two successful acquisitions. Known for his clear thinking and hands-on leadership, he focuses on aligning teams, staying customer-centric, and turning ambition into action.

At ClearRoute, Mike leads the U.S. business with energy, focus, and a strong belief in collaboration and accountability. He’s passionate about helping clients unlock value and scale with purpose.

Outside of work, Mike finds inspiration in family life—supporting his children’s interests has shaped his values around empathy, curiosity, and lifelong learning.

Supriya Rao brings a calm, quality-first mindset that helps fast-moving teams stay grounded, aligned, and focused. Her background in leading large-scale operational transformations and driving agile delivery at enterprise scale enables ClearRoute to scale faster, align innovation with business needs, and deliver smarter. She is known for spotting gaps early, connecting the dots across teams, and fostering a culture of collaboration, learning, and continuous improvement.

Outside of work, Supriya recharges by solving complex puzzles, podcasting, and spending quality time with her Gen-Z children—passions that fuel her curiosity and adaptability. She is excited to help ClearRoute revolutionise the Route to Live, championing innovation and quality at every step as the company continues to grow and evolve.

A lifelong technology enthusiast, Nikolay began his IT career in Bulgaria before the internet had even arrived. Starting with CA-Clipper and Novell networks, he quickly advanced to architecting one of the first online CRMs for GSK Bulgaria. Over two decades at GSK, he held leadership roles across both Commercial and R&D IT, delivering over 140 global innovation projects and leading cross-functional engineering teams. After a successful run in mobile development and co-founding a tech startup, he joined ClearRoute in 2023 as Managing Director for Bulgaria. He now leads the growth of ClearRoute’s nearshore delivery center in Sofia, helping clients unlock value through expert consultancy and software engineering. His career has been defined by continuous learning, technical depth, and a passion for building strong, effective teams that solve real-world challenges.

Kouros Aliabadi has throughout his career been fascinated by what’s possible when technology and business come together. He has been the driving force in some of the UKs most successful digital transformations, helping enterprise organisations move to agile operating models, adopt test first, cloud native development approaches and revolutionise the way they operate through DevOps and SRE.

With a reputation for creating innovative, highly technical engineering teams he helped to build a world class engineering team at a leading Agile Transformation consultancy, growing their capability and reputation in Continuous Testing, DevOps, Cloud & Digital Transformation until its acquisition.