A technology lead with over 20 years experience at global Chief Technology Officer level for large digital agencies, delivering projects in the field of global enterprise content management, ecommerce, data, system architecture/microservices/composable architectures, through to Internet of things, Augmented/Virtual reality, and Artificial Intelligence. Starting with being a founding partner of a digital agency in the early 00s, that was acquired and became the global CTO of the merged 16 company, 2800 strong agency Mirum covering 30+ offices globally. Moved to consultancy world, and then a stint at Valtech as the European CTO focusing on Connected Experiences, to finding a home at LAB at their group head of digital.
Built, integrated and lead tech teams all over the world as well as delivered projects for the worlds largest and smallest companies. He lectures in Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality and Internet of Things heavily involved in leading training workshops with staff, clients and universities.Has taken small start-ups though product research and design, to manufacture, and I took C-Suites to maker labs to teach them about IoT!
Spoken at many major events, and presented at events all over the world.Passionate about being a maker and Maker Culture with evenings and weekends are taken up wiring, soldering, coding, welding, tinkering with race cars and classic cars, woodworking, smart homes, and even a bit of lime-mortaring. And keen to make sure the next generation understands how amazing the tech world is right now so can regularly be found Mentoring and coaching as well as teaching everything from coding for kids to the mentality of Maker Culture.
BIMA member since 21st September 2021