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Royal Tunbridge Wells, Gb

London, England, Gb

Grew ARR by 20x and total marketplace sales (GMV) by 24x, whilst increasing ARPU by 65%. Raised multiple $XM in venture capital including Series A. Signed customers in the UK & US markets including King, Ocado, Epic & Snyk, with users spanning over 50 countries.

London, England, Gb

Joined at seed stage to lead led Product & Design and Marketplace.Attained Product Market Fit: increased budget utilisation from 5-15% without Learnerbly to 50-80% with Learnerbly and achieved 3x growth in revenue. Improved monthly users visits to consistently above 40% and NPS above 40.

Founded Nome, a B2C mobile app-based AI assistant to help you figure what to eat when you travel, with recommendations tailored to your taste and occasion. The AI leverages procedural tailored paths to build and advance a user's palate, and finds people with similar tastes to serve trusted restaurant recommendations.Bootstrapped to >2000 active users and achieved industry leading 6 month retention figures (> 60%). Self taught designer and coder and built a team of 4.

London, Gb

Joined London 10 cohort of Entrepreneur First, a leading global startup accelerator backed by Reid Hoffman, Greylock Partners, Mosaic Ventures, and Founders Fund. They invest in exceptional individuals to build technology startups from scratch.

New York, Ny, Us

Joined the Global Loyalty team to advise on their automated, AI-driven personalization marketing capability (spend X, get Y points offers where X and Y are personalised to the customer).Validated the initial use case, which delivered 45% increase in sustained customer spend. Accelerated experimentation and expedited new market launches by decreasing lead time by 75%.

New York, Ny, Us

Product Manager in Digital Advertising & AI Personalisation, focussed on leading a team to build an AI-enabled omni-channel advertising capability that leverages Amex’s closed loop data and Machine Learning algorithms to improve customer targeting and cross-content arbitration. Spearheaded initial pilots to full release across the 5 largest markets: served personalised Amex content to >10M users across web, mobile and email, generating >$50M increase in customer spend in 1st year with significant uplift in CTR (>4x) and conversion (2-3x).

New York, Ny, Us

Managed cross-functional teams across brand, acquisition, finance and servicing for new card launches and deployment of emerging payments in the UK market.Revitalised the Platinum Card® with new £450 fee (from £300), improved customer NPS, delivering $1M in increased profitability and 10% profit margin uplift in 1st year. Delivered 40% growth in monthly contactless usage and launched contactless on Transport for London network.

New York, Ny, Us

Internal consulting team, reporting directly to the CEO & Chairman Ken Chennault, providing high level strategic advisory to key executives and senior management teams across various business units and markets on the company's most critical business challenges and initiatives.Developed long term growth strategies for new businesses in the $20T International Payments market and emerging Prepaid products, advised on merchant coverage optimisation, and supported business development opportunities in mobile payments in emerging markets. Promoted after 18 months.

London , Co

Quantitative and qualitative market research in Technology, FMCG, Financial and Professional Services sectors. Worked on projects involving brand strategy, customer loyalty and satisfaction, and new product development for top global brands.

London, England, Gb

Strategy Consultant, worked on commercial due diligence projects for large Private Equity clients, including Terra Firma and Cinven, and corporate strategy for leading UK healthcare groups.

Master Of Arts (Ma), Natural Sciences

Master Of Science (Msc), Technology Entrepreneurship