I read engineering at Oxford University, rowed for Great Britain and was president of the Oxford crew that won the 2002 Boat Race as underdogs. Injury ended the rowing. The habit of preparing properly for hard things never left.
Since then I have spent twenty years where technology meets money. At RBS I worked in counterparty risk through the financial crisis, building the bank's first consolidated trade repository and analysing derivative selection on a £20bn asset protection scheme. As operations director of a design-led manufacturing business I helped take it from loss-making to a £2.5M turnover and solid profit. Since 2012 I have run Infinite Codeworks, designing systems, integrations and now AI capability for businesses from precision manufacturers to US healthtech.
The thread through all of it is the same: complex, high-stakes problems made plain, decided quickly and made to pay. I am the person in the room who can hold the engineering detail and the board conversation at the same time, and who would rather show you a working answer than describe one. Increasingly the work is about direction of travel: reading where technology is going, broadly rather than through a narrow technical lens, and what it means right now for the people who run, work in and buy from a business. The job is then to turn that reading into action a business can take this quarter: risks removed, threats turned into strengths, opportunities made real.
In 2026 I ran Badwater 135. I also founded a charity whose community programmes carry peer-reviewed evidence from the University of Bristol of improving social connection and wellbeing. Both inform how I advise.
Technology should be judged by what it does for people, whether that is a savings ledger or a loneliness measure. AI's job is to remove the drudgery so people can do the human work.
