FBCS. FRSA. Technology executive across government, financial services, life sciences, and media. Available for interim and fractional CIO roles.
Abcam: VP Global Engineering at a life sciences unicorn, unlocking the double-digit growth the company had been promising its market for five years. Travis Perkins: Group Director, building software delivery across 200 people including crisis management during the Ukraine conflict. Cybersafe Schools: CEO. UK Government: at GDS, eliminating paper driving licences for 60 million users. At ESFA, delivering the digital Apprenticeship Levy saving £2.7 billion annually. At HMRC, introducing agile delivery and DevOps across the Aspire programme.
The scale has always been large. The problems have always been structural. The people have always been a big part of the solution.
My research into digital wellbeing and the attention economy directly informs my executive work. Understanding what constant connectivity actually costs organisations makes me a more effective CIO. As CTO of Beò Lab, I set the technical direction while the research team handles operations.
Full ownership of the technology estate, accountable to the board. I take on interim and fractional CIO positions where the organisation needs someone to diagnose what's actually broken, build the right team around it, and stay until it's fixed.
Built software delivery across 200 people in UK and Ukraine. When the conflict began, led the evacuation of 100 team members while maintaining delivery continuity. Geopolitical risk, stakeholder communication, and operational resilience simultaneously.
Owned architecture, delivery, engineering, and operations across four countries. Oracle Cloud ERP, MuleSoft Anypoint Platform (50+ APIs replacing hand-coded integrations), AWS migration reducing costs by 40%. Unlocked the double-digit growth the company had been promising its market for five years.
FBCS. FRSA. MSc Psychology (Distinction). BSc Computer Studies. Executive Programme in AI (Oxford). Data Science for Executives (Columbia). Quantum Computing (MIT). Thirty years across GDS, Cabinet Office, HMRC, Abcam, Travis Perkins, Cybersafe Schools, American Express, JP Morgan, BBC, Barclays, Tesco, Sky, and The Guardian. Agile Alliance sponsor, AXELOS contributing editor, PRINCE2 Agile contributor, CTO Craft panel member. Keynote speaker.