The Key Group works to support better decision making and ways of working in schools and trusts across the UK. Our brands, including The Key, Arbor and GovernorHub, provide the infrastructure for modern school and trust leadership.With a 20-year background in technology, I am focused on accelerating innovation in the tooling that supports school leaders as well as providing class-leading change management support.If you have an idea that can support school leaders - let's talk!

The Key Group provides advice and software to the education sector and serves over 12,000 schools in the UK. Named by the Sunday Times as one of the companies making a “big impact on Britain", at the heart of everything we do is a passionate commitment to helping organisations save time, work smarter, and deliver better results for the communities they serve.

- Extended stay in Kigali, Rwanda - lots of reading & interesting conversations.- Research, talks & lobbying for the liveable city - NYC, Montreal, London.

Global responsibility for sales, sales engineering, partnerships and business development across public and private cloud. Saw revenues grow to over $100M per annumOwnership of partnerships with major cloud service providers including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and IBM where Ubuntu powers 70% of all pubic workloads globally.Responsible for global sales to leading OpenStack adopters including telco operators NTT, NEC, Deutsche Telekom, Verizon, TimeWarner, Bell Canada and AT&T and leading enterprises including Walmart, Ebay, Wells Fargo and Bloomberg.Global sales management for Canonical's cloud & server products including relationships with IBM, HP, Cisco, Dell and Quanta.Continuing to build a world class global sales and account management organisation globally.

Building Canonical's global OEM Services division responsible for loading Ubuntu on more than 5% of worldwide desktop and laptop PCs (over $7.5bn of hardware) a year.Being part of the core team that set up ARM's open source software collaboration team Linaro. Critical player in negotiating a complex industry-wide initiative with ARM, Qualcomm, Nokia, Samsung, Marvell, Freescale, Broadcom. This work was a critical enabled for the use of ARM processors by AWS and Google, Recruiting and training a 100+ person organisation. Responsible for sales, operations and engineering including tech centers in Boston, Taiwan and Shanghai.Negotiating and managing multi-year collaborations with ARM, Intel and Google.Establishing partnerships and sales relationships with Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus, Quanta, Wistron, Compal.Speaking publicly in US, Europe and China on Open Source software and Linux.Assisting partners on a broad range of software development, hardware enablement, factory support and sales and marketing issues.

The early days at Canonical.... a lot of everything.

- Set-up Global Beach Automotive within Global Beach Group building Europe's leading automotive content, inventory and lead management system.- Led pan-European contracts wins with Ford of Europe, Jaguar, Land Rover, Citroen & Bentley- Conceived & product managed Autotorq - our automotive content, inventory and lead management software as a service proposition.

- Account manager for Jaguar's global online marketing (incl. Launch of Jaguar X-Type)- Product management and account lead on the deployment of a 7 market online vehicle configurator