Technology leadership across cyber security, AI, cloud and governance
Twenty-five years moving between the vendors who build technology and the organisations that buy it, with a career that started in technical training
70% reduction in consultant preparation time through AI-augmented delivery
3–5× times return on investment achieved for clients
Over £10m won in competitive technology tenders
Where my experience sits
Six areas run through my career, and they rarely get talked about together even though they depend on each other.
IT Strategy & Leadership
Turning technical decisions into plain business terms: what something costs, what it delivers, and whether it’s worth doing, without jargon or vendor-led hype.
AI strategy and adoption
A platform-agnostic evaluation methodology, tested across multiple AI platforms, for moving from experiment to production with real governance.
Vendor and partner relationships
Commercial agreements, co-op and marketing fund management, co-sell alignment and partner tier performance. I’ve worked on both the vendor side and the buyer side.
Governance, risk and compliance
Frameworks that hold up to scrutiny, drawing on auditor-level knowledge of international standards.
Cyber Security
Practical security leadership and governance that protects the business without grinding it to a halt.
Cloud infrastructure
Strategy grounded in more than two decades of hands-on infrastructure engineering.
Recent thoughts
- Your best people are already looking80% of technology leaders expect to retain their top people… Read more: Your best people are already looking
- The Growth and Skills Levy is live. Is your training budget still working?The Apprenticeship Levy, as most technology leaders understood it, no… Read more: The Growth and Skills Levy is live. Is your training budget still working?
- The business case for fixing tech’s gender gap441,000. That’s how many women worked as IT specialists in… Read more: The business case for fixing tech’s gender gap
- The tech value gap: why your existing stack is worth more than you thinkEvery board I sit on asks the same question when… Read more: The tech value gap: why your existing stack is worth more than you think
- The Clocks That Don’t Wait For CertaintyNobody can agree on when a quantum computer will break… Read more: The Clocks That Don’t Wait For Certainty
Community
Alongside this, I invest time in developing technology people and communities: mentoring through the British Computer Society, career coaching with Ada, peer mentoring with the London CTO Club, founding the Techie Brunch Club, a network of over 1,000 technologists, and building Greyface Games, an indie studio focused on accessible game design.
Let’s talk
If any of this is relevant to your event, your team, or someone you’re mentoring, I’d like to hear from you.