Marc Warner holds a PhD in quantum technologies from UCL and was a Marie Curie Fellow in Physics at Harvard. In 2014 he founded the Advanced Skills Initiative in London with Angie Ma and Andy Brookes.
It was not an AI company at first. It was a fellowship that gave PhD graduates commercial experience on real client problems. Four of the five founding team members held PhDs in physics or computer science. Andy Brookes, the CTO, did not.
LocalGlobe invested £1.5 million in 2016, and Saul Klein decided to back the team after about five minutes. The company grew into ASI Data Science, then took the name Faculty in 2019. In 2018 it built a terrorist content tool for the Home Office, and in 2020 it worked on COVID projects for the NHS and the UK government.
Apax Digital put in £30 million in 2021. In January 2026 Accenture agreed to acquire Faculty, and Warner is to become Accenture's chief technology officer.