AgendaScope is a SaaS platform that gives management teams and boards a way to make better decisions that matter for long-term success. Being able to clearly see what’s on your strategic agenda means you can easily catch opportunities and head off threats. You can map impact, make decisions and set priorities and stop discussing items only when they’re urgent. Designed to focus board and management meetings, capture priorities in between, and map decisions that need to be made. Built by a team who have sat at too many tables where the same things are discussed over and over again but not decided on. And meetings that get stuck in the day-to-day to-do list without diving into real threats and opportunities. AgendaScope is for boards, decision makers, and teams that know getting focused, intelligent input from everyone will create better outcomes for everyone. Full View: See what's coming up, what needs a decision right now, and what you've forgotten to consider.Focus: Know what's important to make decisions about now, or the potential impact if you don't.Facts: Deal in what you know, plan for what's possible, and discover your gaps.

I was a host for the Tuesday group of the Startup To Stand Up community. Our mission was combatting loneliness for founders and business owners and sharing wisdom & experience to solve complex business problems that slowed us down. We were good for a while there.

The Art Of Navigation runs programmes for ambitious, curious, leaders of digital platform companies. Using a 5-step framework, under development since 2014, to support them in taking their business to the next level. It combines 1:1 support with a system of tools under development since 2014.The purpose of the programme is to widen perspective, create insights, and remove the barriers that can cause a business to under-deliver on its greatest promise.It's about the journey you take as a CEO, and whether you would like someone, focused on your needs, to help you along the way.

Activate Capital is a venture founder for young technology companies. We put our collective experience to work to give them a leg up in terms of purpose, strategy, value proposition, business model, customer experience, and communications. We are particularly interested in 'domain experts' who want to build software platforms. Each program we run is tailored to the needs of the startup. Our current portfolio is:• Tomo (http://www.hellotomo.co.uk): how can technology help sufferers of chronic depression?• ISOS Health (https://isoshealth.com): how can technology bring together physiotherapists, dieticians, and psychotherapists to address long-term health & well-being problems?• BuddyHub (http://www.buddyhub.co.uk): how can technology help solve informal adult social care issues?• C.Ply: Revolutionising UK construction sites. More details to come.All 3 are now funded and building their product. Applications are open for our 4th programme.

In simple terms M/V is a strategic management consultancy.We are usually invited in by the leadership of SME’s who are looking for significant growth. Typically, they tell us that they’re struggling with their strategy, or worried existing products or services won’t sustain their growth, or that they’re doing okay but recognise that some fresh thinking/outside help will take their business to the next level faster.If any of these sound familiar to you then please get in touch.

As CTO I helped to drive the technology vision, and development of the business. The team created a platform that delivered successful campaigns for, among others, Rovio and Electronic Arts and raised over $1m for charities and is now poised to deliver campaigns with global reach. As the business prepares to scale further it was the right time to bring in a full-time CTO while I have taken up a board advisory position.

I was both a judge and a mentor for the UK accelerator programme.

As one of the mentors for EA, I have tried to help their startups develop a sound approach to building technology and ensuring that what they spend delivers impact for their growing business.

Smartfish Software is a playground for building internet software that builds on our particular knowledge, experience, and passion for smart aggregation, privacy, distributed ontology, and peer networks.

I provide regular support and advice to the team on technology and business strategy.

After helping the team through a successful application to the Wayra Unltd incubator I'm working with them to develop the product strategy and grow the discoverabl.es platform into a successful commercial product.

My work is mainly electronic, making heavy use of granular synthesis and samplers, and including instruments and effects I construct myself. Being a part of such a talented group of musicians and video artists as Ember Music makes me feel very proud. We issued a compilation album in Jan 2011, more details on our website.

reeplay.it is a TiVO-style solution for time-shifting and playing web-video on a range of connected devices. Leading a team of three I was responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the application, which was developed using Ruby on Rails. I also worked closely with partners using our API to integrate with set-top boxes and other services.

Co-Minded was building a “conversation network” application using Ruby on Rails. A great opportunity to turn my interest in Ruby and building Rails applications into practical experience I worked as part of the development team implemented a number of features both user facing and in the backend service, pre-beta.

PAOGA is a digital identity service for individuals and part of the nascent Vendor Relationship Management (VRM) movement. I was the bridge between the development and executive teams where I helped define the technical strategy & guide product development into public beta. With the business development director I was responsible for writing proposals, pitching to clients, running workshops, and building relationships with partners.

My key achievement was researching & developing targeted business propositions addressing key market sectors identified by the exec team. I worked with the business development director and CEO pitching to prospects. I acted as the technical liaison between prospects/customers, business development, and the development team to ensure that customer requirements were properly discovered and clearly understood. Critically I was successful at communicating technical decisions, consequences, and plans to non-technical audiences.

Novissio was founded to build and promote light-weight knowledge management process & tools for business based on lessons learned from the emerging blogging movement. As part of my work I developed liveTopics for augmenting blogs with topic maps and faceted classification. Novissio later partnered with Evectors Software Srl to build K-Collector: the first enterprise RSS aggregator incorporating tagging and social features. Early customers were the BBC and Juniper Networks.

I joined Evectors to co-author the first tag-based group RSS aggregator which we called "K-Collector". A product ahead of is time in 2002, K-Collector is aimed at developing a light-weight approach to helping people make connections within their business and industry and be aware of important trends and discoveries. K-Collector was one of the first explicitly social applications for enterprises and exploits blogs, wiki, and RSS. In the process we developed Easy News Topics (and extension to the RSS2.0 format) for sending topics through RSS feeds created the first structured tag based internet portal "W4". Paolo Valdemarin (Evectors CEO) and I conceived and designed K-Collector as an evolution of the work we had done on blogs and tagging previously.

As part of a 2-man European spearhead I supported the UK MD in sales activities including writing propositions, creating and delivering presentations to prospects, and developing integrations with customer systems. I was responsible for managing ongoing technical relationships with customers and partners and acted as 1st line support for the US mothership.

I lead a 5 man team developing a new framework for component based development in Java. I established an engineering culture in the team bringing in testing, version control, design patterns, and other disciplines. I was responsible for evolving the architecture and ensured the team delivered the 1.0 product in budget and on schedule.

I was part of the team responsible for the selection, acquisition, and roll-out of the Livelink knowledge management system. I lead pilot projects that eventually lead to deployment across the institution. I was also responsible for the development and day-to-day maintenance of a series of intranet applications and helped form University intranet and e-learning policy.