People

Operative Solutions is an engineering firm in Sydney, founded by Lachlan Douglas and Richard Heycock.

Lachlan Douglas

Partner

Lachlan leads composition and partnerships. He has spent most of his career in investment management, where firms are accountable to regulators for what they do.

He has built and re-engineered businesses and raised capital. He has invested in and owned investment management businesses. He has advised managers across asset classes, in public and private markets, in Australia and overseas.

He holds degrees in engineering and applied finance. He designed and built daedal. He set out its theory in two papers, Free Assembly and No Feedback.

Richard Heycock

Partner

Richard leads engineering and operation. He has spent his career building distributed systems that keep running through failure.

He designed and built aidion, including its durable execution, its capability tokens, its key server and its hash-chained audit trail. He records each failure mode he finds alongside its fix.

He was Technical Director at Digivizer. He holds a degree in control engineering.

Contact

Operative Solutions, Sydney · hello@operative.au