Data & AI leadership.

I lead data and AI functions for organisations that want more from their data than reports. That has meant designing a data platform from nothing and running it for seven years; recruiting and keeping a team through growth and contraction; and turning strategy into a plan that survives contact with budgets, legacy systems and the people who have to use it.

Before that I was an architect, a consultant and a developer, which is why I am comfortable both in the Exec meeting and in the schema. I have worked in broadcast, data science, consulting, e-commerce and the public sector, on everything from traditional warehouses to data lakes and production machine learning.

I am available for permanent, contract and fractional roles: a Head of Data or Director of Data building or rebuilding a function, a fractional data leader for an organisation that is not yet ready for a full-time one, or a consultant for a defined piece of strategy or architecture work.