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ChemAI: AI-Driven Digital Chemistry Pioneer announces Strategic Rebrand and Key Board Appointments

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LEEDS, England, Nov. 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Deepmatter, a leading innovator in digital chemistry, today unveils its rebrand to ChemAI, as part of a strategic growth plan to revolutionize the future of chemistry with artificial intelligence (AI). The rebrand reflects the company’s vision to empower scientists with advanced AI tools that redefine chemical discovery and manufacturing.

Over recent years, ChemAI has developed and commercialised a suite of AI-driven tools that enable chemists to dramatically improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of synthetic routes and formulations. These tools also uncover novel and innovative synthetic pathways. The AI is underpinned by access to proprietary data: a comprehensive and growing chemical database of over 23 million chemical reactions.

Already collaborating with leading pharmaceutical, biotech, and cosmetic firms, ChemAI’s rebranding underscores its mission to harness AI and data-driven innovation to transform the discovery, development, and production of chemical products.

In conjunction with its rebrand, ChemAI announces significant additions to its Board of Directors to support the company’s next growth phase:

Dave Norwood has been appointed Chairman. A seasoned leader in deep-tech and life sciences, Dave is the founder of IP Group PLC and Oxford Science Enterprises, which has driven over £1.5 billion in investments into Oxford since 2015. He also co-founded Oxford Nanopore, a global leader in DNA sequencing, among other notable UK tech companies.Tony de Fougerolles, PhD has joined as a Non-Executive Director, bringing over 25 years of experience in biotechnology R&D, most recently CEO of Evox Therapeutics. Tony previously served as CSO at Ablynx, where he contributed to the approval of caplacizumab, the first single-domain antibody drug, and advanced immunology and oncology pipelines. As founding CSO at Moderna, he pioneered the foundational mRNA science that underpins the entire sector including the approved mRNA vaccines. He also held leadership roles at Tolerx and Alnylam. Tony serves on the boards of Etherna, Chimeron Bio, Helfie AI and Lift Biosciences. He earned a PhD in Immunology from Harvard and a BSc from McGill.

Commenting on these developments, Dave Norwood, Chairman, said:

“The rebrand to ChemAI reflects our bold ambition to redefine the role of data and AI in chemistry. By combining a visionary approach with a strengthened leadership team, ChemAI is well-positioned to drive transformative change and unlock unprecedented opportunities in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries.”

Tony de Fougerolles, Non-Executive Director, added:

“I’m thrilled to join ChemAI at such an exciting juncture. The company’s AI-powered platform has immense potential to accelerate innovation and improve efficiencies across the chemical ecosystem. Our approach to AI won’t replace chemists entirely, but chemists using our tools will be immeasurably more productive and creative than those that don’t”

ChemAI’s rebrand and new Board appointments underscore its commitment to empowering researchers, manufacturers, and innovators with tools that enhance productivity, sustainability, and innovation. As ChemAI, the company remains steadfast in its mission to create a world where data and AI-driven chemistry fuel solutions for global challenges.

About ChemAI

ChemAI (formerly Deepmatter) is a UK-based privately-held technology company leading innovation in digital chemistry. Leveraging AI, machine learning, , ChemAI optimizes chemical research and manufacturing, driving breakthroughs across the chemical, pharmaceutical, and material science industries. Its proprietary platform combines proprietary chemical reaction data, large language model (LLM)-enabled data extraction tools, and domain-specific AI for route prediction, reaction optimization, and automation control.

For more information, visit chemai.io

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Wondershare to Showcase AI-Powered Business Workflows with PDFelement at Microsoft AI Tour Hong Kong

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HONG KONG, April 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Wondershare, a global leader in productivity and creativity software, will participate in the Microsoft AI Tour Hong Kong on April 22, 2026, at the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong. At Booth E10, the company will showcase its AI-powered business workflow solutions across its product portfolio, highlighting Wondershare PDFelement as a key focus, and inviting attendees to experience how intelligent workflows can transform modern business operations.

As Microsoft’s flagship global AI event, the Microsoft AI Tour brings together industry leaders, partners, and innovators to explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping business landscapes. At the Hong Kong stop, Wondershare will highlight its deepening collaboration with Microsoft, showcasing how its product ecosystem works seamlessly within Microsoft’s AI and cloud technologies to enable more efficient, secure, and scalable workflows.

This collaboration comes at a pivotal time for Hong Kong’s rapidly evolving AI landscape. Hong Kong is rapidly emerging as a key AI innovation hub, driven by strong policy support and accelerating enterprise adoption. Despite this momentum, many organizations still face challenges such as fragmented AI adoption, integration complexity, and data security concerns. In collaboration with Microsoft, Wondershare addresses these challenges by enabling connected, end-to-end AI workflows that deliver practical and measurable productivity gains.

Under the theme “Streamline Workflows. Power Content with AI.”, Wondershare presents a unified approach to AI-driven productivity. At the center of this ecosystem is Wondershare PDFelement, enabling smarter and more efficient document workflows within enterprise environments and helping businesses adopt AI in practical, everyday scenarios. Supporting this vision, Wondershare’s broader product portfolio—including EdrawMax, EdrawMind, Filmora, and Reelmate—extends AI-powered capabilities across diagramming, mind mapping, video creation, and premium comic content creation, forming a connected, end-to-end workflow, all of which will also be showcased on-site at the event.

Through live, interactive demonstrations, attendees visiting Booth E10 will be able to explore Wondershare’s full product ecosystem and gain hands-on insight into how AI can enhance productivity across a wide range of business scenarios.

Wondershare warmly invites all participants to visit the booth and discover how AI-powered workflows can unlock new possibilities for business growth.

About Wondershare:

Wondershare is a globally recognized software company founded in 2003, known for its innovative solutions in creativity and productivity. Driven by the mission “Creativity Simplified”, Wondershare offers a range of tools, including PDFelement for document management; EdrawMax, EdrawMind for diagraming, Filmora and SelfyzAI for video editing. With over 2 billion cumulative active users across all products and a presence in over 200 countries and regions, Wondershare empowers the next generation of creators with intuitive software and trendy creative resources, continually expanding the possibilities of creativity worldwide.

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Cohesity Appoints Nigel Lee as Technical Sales Leader, Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ)

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SINGAPORE, April 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Cohesity, today announced Nigel Lee as Technical Sales Leader for Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ). Based in Singapore, Lee will lead the company’s technical sales strategy, pre-sales organisation, and solution engineering execution across the region, reporting to Mark Nutt, SVP & GM, International at Cohesity, and reflects Cohesity’s increased investment in the region as a strategic priority.

In this newly created role, Lee will strengthen technical engagement with customers and partners, and drive adoption of Cohesity’s AI-driven data security and cyber resilience platform across APJ.

Lee brings 29 years of experience leading pre-sales, sales engineering, and go-to-market changes across Asia Pacific. He has a strong record of building high-performing teams, driving enterprise growth, and engaging C-level stakeholders in complex markets.

“APJ is a strategically important region for Cohesity, and Nigel’s leadership, passion and deep expertise make him exceptionally well positioned to lead our technical sales organisation,” said Mark Nutt, SVP & GM, International, Cohesity. “As we continue to invest in the region, his ability to align technical strategy with the rapidly developing customer requirements caused by the ever-changing threat and compliance landscape will be critical to accelerating our growth and ensuring our customers’ ongoing business resilience.”

Previously, Lee was Director of Data Storage Solutions, Asia Pacific at Lenovo, where he led the regional business and transformed the go-to-market to drive growth. He also held senior regional and global roles at NetApp.

“Across the region, organisations are under increasing pressure to secure, manage, and unlock value from their data as AI adoption accelerates and cyber threats evolve. Cohesity is uniquely positioned to simplify this complexity through a unified, AI-driven data security platform,” said Nigel Lee, Technical Sales Leader, Asia Pacific and Japan at Cohesity. “Having spent my career scaling organisations and embedding solution expertise early in the customer journey, I’m excited to join at this pivotal time and look forward to working with our teams, partners, and customers to drive meaningful, outcome-led growth.”

Lee holds an Executive MBA from Kellogg-HKUST and a Bachelor of Computer Science.

About Cohesity 

Cohesity protects, secures, and provides insights into the world’s data. As the leader in AI-powered data security, Cohesity helps organisations strengthen resilience, accelerate recovery, and reduce IT costs. With Zero Trust security and advanced AI/ML, Cohesity Data Cloud is trusted by customers in more than 140 countries, including 70% of the Global 500. Cohesity is also backed by industry leaders such as NVIDIA, Amazon, Google, IBM, Cisco, and HPE.

Cohesity is certified as a Great Place to Work in multiple countries. Follow Cohesity on LinkedIn and visit www.cohesity.com to learn more.    

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EcoMatcher Unveils Tree Personas

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A New Nature Interface for Engaging with Your Trees, in Any Language

HONG KONG, April 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — EcoMatcher, a Certified B Corporation that enables companies to plant and track trees transparently, today announced Tree Personas, a new Nature Interface designed to make tree gifting and sustainability engagement more personal, interactive, and memorable.

With Tree Personas, companies can assign a distinct digital personality to each gifted tree, enabling recipients to virtually visit their tree in TreeTracker 3D, chat with it through TreeChat+ in their own language, and learn about its growth, local environment, and real-world impact.

Tree Personas build on EcoMatcher’s earlier TreeChat, which introduced chatbot-powered conversations with trees, only in English. While TreeChat enabled interaction, Tree Personas shape how a tree communicates in any language – from curious and playful to calm and reflective – while all environmental data, location, and impact metrics remain authentic and unchanged.

EcoMatcher describes Tree Personas as a Nature Interface — a new category of digital interface that allows people to interact with real ecosystems through digital companions connected to living trees. The company believes Nature Interfaces can help reconnect people with nature in an increasingly digital world.

Rather than passively receiving information about a planted tree, users can build an ongoing relationship with it — asking questions, learning about its ecosystem, and following its growth over time. Even when users are away, Tree Personas continue to evolve digitally, encouraging people to return and discover new reflections, observations, and updates.

“Trees are essential for life on Earth, yet most people rarely have a personal connection with them,” said Bas Fransen, CEO of EcoMatcher. “Tree Personas turn planted trees into interactive companions that help people learn about nature and build deeper connections with the ecosystems that support us.”

Meet the First Tree Personas

EcoMatcher introduces three Tree Personas available to companies gifting trees, all inspired by real ecological stages and behaviours of trees:

Twiggles: A young, curious tree highlighting small discoveries in nature.Oakly: A grounded, thoughtful tree sharing ecosystems insights.Seren: A calm, reflective tree encouraging deeper connections with nature.

Companies can also collaborate with EcoMatcher to create custom Tree Personas aligned with their brand values, sustainability goals, or storytelling needs.

EcoMatcher will share more about the background and opportunities of Tree Personas during its upcoming Demo Day on April 27. To sign up, visit www.ecomatcher.com/demo.

About EcoMatcher

EcoMatcher is a Certified B Corporation that enables companies to integrate transparent tree planting into their business. Through its technology platform, organizations can plant trees, track them digitally, and engage employees and customers in sustainability. EcoMatcher’s customers include Dubai Islamic Bank, Grab, Infosys, and Singlife.

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