Who we are
Founded by entrepreneurs, Mark Paraskeva and Shaheed Haque in 2017, paiyroll® is an innovative cloud-based platform that offers automated pay to modern businesses.
With Mark’s desire to bring payroll to the 21st century and Shaheed’s passion for extracting vision from chaos, paiyroll® was born.
The rest, as they say, is history…
MEET US
Mark
Paraskeva
CEO & FOUNDER
Mark studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Southampton. During this time, he developed a lifelong obsession with solving problems using technology.
Before he founded paiyroll®, Mark spent over 30 years in the software industry and was appointed CEO of Iris Payroll & HR in 2012. While at Iris, he became increasingly frustrated by the archaic, manual processes required to run payroll.
Shaheed
Haque
CTO
Shaheed studied Engineering Science at Oxford University and started his career at Digital Equipment Company (DEC) where he met Mark.
Mark introduced Shaheed to the Ada programming language software which started Shaheed’s 35-year software architect career at Oracle, Microsoft, Cisco, and Sky. His expertise is in Cloud computing, Internet-scale networking, video streaming, and world-class engineering tooling.
our mission
Our mission is to automate the world’s payroll using artificial intelligence.
We are passionate about what we do. That’s why we are committed to developing software that can handle payroll for the world. This meant that paiyroll® had to be developed independent of jurisdiction and fully capable of being internationalised and localised for any country, starting with the UK.