I am a co-founder of DataSwarm Ltd, a predictive data analytics company. It grew out of Broadsight Ltd, a technology consulting company we founded in 2006 and then morphed our prediction technology into DataSwarm. I also co-founded Agile Elephant, a company specialising in social media usage in business. DataSwarm participated in the IARPA Geoforecasting Challenge 2 in 2019 with an early version of our prediction technology, and won one of the minor prizes. We also predicted the Trump and Brexit elections correctly and won an IET award for our innovative technology for that. Our technology combines social media, machine learning and dynamic systems. Our focus is on financial and macro forecasting up to geopolitical levels.Before that, I worked at board level in blue chip telecoms, IT and high technology businesses, as well as holding senior operating and strategic posts in high tech growth companies in the UK and US. In addition, I have had extensive consulting experience at McKinsey and Deloitte / Coopers & Lybrand in many industry sectors, and worked across the world.Operating experience includes running end-to-end technology companies, marketing, business strategy, corporate/business development, operations management, complex programme delivery (in-house and outsourced), and business turnarounds/ workouts.My qualifications are in Mechanical / Industrial Engineering, focussed on Operations Research/System Dynamics/Simulation and Massive Distributed IT systems. I note with wry amusement that applying my maths skills to my IT ones is now called "Artificial Intelligence" I have probably also studied enough history to get an honorary degree in it once I am rich and famous :D I am a confirmed Byzantinophile but am sadly aware that is no country for old men.Skills: Telecoms, IT, IP, Broadband, OSS, BSS, MRP, ERP, CRM. Business Intelligence, Market Intelligence, Social Business, Social Networks, Change Mangement, Strategy, M&A, Corporate Development, Management Consulting, Funding, Senior Management, Operations Management, System Dynamics, Data Analysis, Forecasting, Simulation, Game Theory, Prediction & Forecasting, Socia meda usage.
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