James Heward Email & Phone Number

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Glasgow, United Kingdom

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $2.6 trillion and operations worldwide. The Firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• I founded Actual Analytics to develop solutions to increase the efficiency of drug development for central nervous system disorders such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson’s for the pharmaceutical and contract research.
• Conceived, designed, and oversaw the development of the companies platform for video analytics, capable of processing hundreds of TB’s of video data, extracting structured information from the video content using.
• Recruited a team of data scientists & software engineers, and managed development using Scrum
• Sat on the board of directors from company inception, drove the strategy of the company, and led two ‘up round’ investments from both existing & new shareholders
• Generated over £1M of development contracts from competitively tendered bids with ‘blue chip’ organizations

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• I Led a Scottish Enterprise Proof of Concept project to build automated behaviour recognition technology for use in the pharamceutical industry. This cumulated in spinning-out a start-up (Actual Analytics) from the.
• Designed & Implemented computer vision & machine learning algorithms to automatically classify behaviors from video footage
• Developed the project & research plan for the project, reported on progress to the project management group, and met all project objectives
• Recruited & managed a team of software engineers and data scientists which successfully delivered all technical goals of the project
• Forged the product strategy, business model, and commercial strategy cumulating in a business plan for a spin-out business focused on uses in pre-clinical drug development
• Drove fund-raising for the spin-out business – identified suitable investors, contacted, pitched & led negotiations, resulting in securing ~£1M venture capital investment for Actual Analytics

Bsc, Artificial Intelligence & Software Engineering, 2:1

Going in to my final year, I sought to identify a dissertation project that was capable of being commercialized if executed to a high.

Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

Undertook multiple Executive / Entrepreneurship education courses at MIT Sloan school of management. Developed skills in Finance.

Msc, Bioinformatics, Merit

Following the success of my dissertation project, I secured an EPSRC scholarship to pursue an Msc in Bioinformatics with the goal of.