About Us

The Care Sector Supplier Awards aim to seek out the best providers of products and services to the care sector in the UK. The judges look for evidence of innovation, enterprise and performance, including any ongoing response by a supplier company to the Covid-19 emergency.

Nigel has over 30-years’ experience in providing technology and SaaS solutions to businesses and government organisations in the TV, oil, retail, and healthcare sectors. In 2002, Nigel founded Webroster Ltd and  Webroster.net was developed as the first ever web-based home care industry specific scheduling platform to market. Nigel was also the first to bring a mobile app to market! Created to safeguard field based workers in the home care industry. As if that isn't impressive enough - Nigel was the first to bring a plugin AI solution to market. What's next? Who knows? What we do know is that Nigel will never stop pushing the boundaries of AI technology and shape the future of field based worker scheduling.

Rodrigo is responsible for creating and maintaining the software engine that makes OptifAI® work. He is also responsible for the online servers that host the technology. Rodrigo has over 15 years’ experience in computing science and computer architecture and has taught at several universities. More recently he has served the health and social care industry at Webroster where he worked in collaboration with the University of Nottingham as a KTP Research Associate to create the OptifAI® engine. Rodrigo gained his PhD with the Automated Scheduling and Planning Group at the University of Nottingham, where he also authored several peer-reviewed scientific articles. He has spoken about field-based worker scheduling solutions at several healthcare events across the country, as well as having more than ten scientific articles about the subject published. He is experienced with combinatorial optimisation, including workforce scheduling and routing and graph planarisation problems. Rodrigo prides himself on his ability to find solutions to a variety of challenges faced by field-based worker organisations. Rodrigo's many publications can be found in his LinkedIn profile.