Meet the team

Built by a specialist technology team alongside practising family mediators.

Mediation Hub is developed by 80Twenty, a technology firm whose founders have spent their careers building and securing systems for banks, governments and regulated institutions, working with two family mediators who still run their own practices. The mediators shaped the ten workstreams around how the work is actually done. The technology team built them to the standard that regulated financial services expects.

The mediators

Shaped by two mediators who still do the work.

Ashlie Prescott and Anna Vollans described where the time goes in a family mediation practice. The ten workstreams exist because of what they described.

Ashlie Prescott

Family Lawyer and Accredited Family Mediator

Pathway Mediation

Ashlie brings 28 years of family-law experience, has been an accredited family mediator since 2013, and still runs her own mediation practice, so she knows first hand the administrative load that comes with the work. Her work spans children and parenting matters, financial arrangements and complex financial cases involving businesses, trusts, farming assets and property portfolios.

Contribution to Mediation Hub

Ashlie helped ensure Mediation Hub reflects the practical demands of active family mediation cases, from party onboarding and financial disclosure to session records and professional review.

Ashlie’s profile at Pathway Mediation

Anna Vollans

Founder, Accredited Family Mediator and Professional Practice Consultant

Vollans Mediation

Anna founded Vollans Mediation in 2011 after ten years as a family solicitor. She is an accredited family mediator, a Professional Practice Consultant and a board member and former Co-Chair of the Family Mediators Association.

Contribution to Mediation Hub

Anna helped shape the ten connected workstreams around the operational realities of running a mediation practice, maintaining professional standards and supporting cases consistently from referral through to completion.

Anna’s profile at Vollans Mediation

The technology team

Powered by 80Twenty Technology

Built by senior technology practitioners who secure banks and government systems.

Mediation Hub is built and run by 80Twenty, a UK software company founded by Connor Reid and Mark Capaldi. Connor and Mark have worked together for eight years, building secure and compliant software for banks, government and other regulated organisations. They founded 80Twenty to bring that standard of engineering to businesses whose work depends on handling sensitive data with care. Family mediation is one of them.

Connor Reid

Co-founder, 80Twenty. Security and platform architecture

80Twenty

Connor has 14 years of experience securing business-critical platforms in regulated industries, including financial services, government and utilities. He has led the security architecture of digital banks in the UK and the Middle East through design, build and approval, has been trusted by organisations operating under close public and regulatory scrutiny, and has worked directly with financial and cyber security regulators across three continents, including the FCA and PRA in the UK. Throughout, his work has been defined by high standards of security, compliance and data protection. At Mediation Hub he is responsible for security and compliance, so that the platform meets the standards mediators are held to by their professional bodies and by law.

Mark Capaldi

Co-founder, 80Twenty. Engineering and delivery

80Twenty

Mark has 25 years of experience building and running business-critical platforms in regulated industries, including financial services, energy and utilities. He has led engineering organisations for some of the most demanding technology environments in the UK, has led the build of an enterprise cloud platform for a Tier 1 UK bank, and has set the engineering and AI strategy for a global technology company. Throughout, his work has been defined by high standards of security, compliance and delivery. He leads the engineering of Mediation Hub with the same focus, so that mediators and their clients can trust the platform with their most sensitive information.

Practitioner input shaped the workflows and the technology team built them. Every draft and record in Mediation Hub still requires mediator review and approval.

How Mediation Hub keeps data secure