A career spanning more than three decades across seventeen industry sectors. Available for fractional, interim, advisory, and project engagements — from a single board conversation to a multi-year transformation programme.
Senior technology leadership and strategic counsel — for boards that need a trusted voice, executives navigating ambiguous decisions, and organisations that need the clarity to act. The experience behind every engagement spans more than three decades across seventeen sectors, from computer operator to Group CTO.
When technology decisions feel ambiguous, the consequences of getting them wrong are not. Working with executive teams to define where technology needs to go, why, and in what sequence — grounded in commercial reality, not architectural idealism. The output is a strategy that can be owned, communicated, and delivered.
Senior technology leadership, available to the organisations that need it most. Working alongside CEOs, boards, and existing leadership teams as a trusted senior voice — helping make better technology decisions, navigate complex programmes, and hold delivery partners to account. Available for fractional, interim, and advisory engagements.
This is a leadership and risk conversation that happens to involve technology. Helping boards and executive teams define what AI they should be deploying, under what conditions, with what controls, and how to build the internal capability to sustain it — without outsourcing the judgement to the vendors selling it.
Independent technology due diligence for investors, boards, and leadership teams evaluating acquisitions, partnerships, or major supplier decisions. Fast, clear, and commercially framed — producing an assessment that decision-makers can act on rather than file away.
From coherent data estates to large-scale transformation programmes — the technical depth to understand what organisations actually have, and the leadership experience to close the gap between that and what they need.
Deep experience in enterprise architecture across public sector, health, finance, telecoms, and retail. Helping organisations understand what they have, what they need, and how to close the gap without unnecessary complexity — building architectures that serve the organisation rather than constrain it.
Large-scale transformation programmes succeed or fail on clarity of direction and quality of leadership. Specialising in organisations that have stalled, are accelerating too fast, or have lost the thread between their technology programme and the business outcome it was supposed to deliver.
Helping organisations move from fragmented data estates and competing platforms to coherent data strategy — including governance, platform architecture, and the organisational structures that make data genuinely useful at executive level. This is not a technical conversation. It is a business one that requires technical depth to have correctly.
Deep sector knowledge, rare specialisms, and a platform for sharing what thirty-seven years at the intersection of technology and organisations has produced.
Advising UK police forces and government agencies on the strategic and ethical use of AI in real-time operations — one of the most demanding environments in which technology decisions are made. Where speed and accuracy are non-negotiable, where bias is not a theoretical concern, and where the consequences of system failure are immediate and human.
Strategic risk posture, not just technical controls. Experience across government, justice, and financial services — building security strategy that is proportionate, sustainable, and embedded in the organisation rather than bolted on. The question is not whether you have the right tools. It is whether your risk posture matches your actual exposure.
Three decades of senior technology leadership across the full breadth of UK public sector. Deep understanding of how public sector technology decisions are made, what makes them succeed, and what makes them fail — including the political and organisational dynamics that technical consultants without that history consistently underestimate.
Available for conferences, leadership offsites, and bespoke executive programmes. Topics include AI adoption and governance, the future of work, human-centred technology design, and the strategic and ethical challenges facing boards. Author of three books on these subjects — the writing informs the speaking.
Most engagements begin with a single conversation. No obligation. The right fit matters more than the right brochure.