MISSION is a ventures consultancy laser-focused on Decentralized Identity (Self-Sovereign Identity). We help startups and vendors accelerate.We help large organizations get smarter and derisk.We build companies and teams.A rising tide lifts all boats.

MISSION is proudly retained as part of the GAN team, working closely to realize this massively high-potential opportunity.Bringing together the decentralized identity community to develop practical solutions to bring digital trust to the world.

Excited to be leaving Gen for new adventures 22 months after the Evernym acquisition.Following the acquisition of Avast by NortonLifeLock in Sept 22, Gen Digital is the newly combined company name. The digital trust team is bringing digital wallets to market.

Avast completed the acquisition of Evernym in December 2021. Having gone through the post merger process, I’m now responsible for our commercial business in the US.We’re focused on empowering hundreds of millions of consumers with portable digital identity.

Executive responsibility for our full-funnel commercial business - marketing, developer and customer success, sales, business development, & technical support. Additionally, fundraising co-pilot, and regular board meeting attendee.Evernym was the global leader in Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) and Decentralized Identity, developing the W3C standards for DIDs and Verifiable Credentials, creating the first open-source code base for identity (Hyperledger Indy, Aries and Ursa), and standing up Sovrin and the Sovrin Foundation. To date we've also powered some of the most well-known deployments of SSI, such as the UK NHS's Staff Pass, the IATA Travel Pass, and Bonifii in the US. Successfully designed and implemented a modern RevOps engine, built atop Hubspot, generating 10k+ leads through content marketing and webinars, and delivering up to 100 developer accounts per month.Heavily involved in due diligence for our acquisition and subsequent post-merger integration process.

Redbox Mobile is a specialist enterprise grade ASO and Organic Search agency. We are proud to work with brands like WSJ, Hulu, Kodak, Red Bull, and many more.

Contract role working leading sales/growth/product market development (post seed). Closed deal with Concur/SAP (first customer). Machine Learning & AI educated bots test apps automagically. Seriously!

Player/Coach/Head of the business team driving revenue post series A.Crafted a sales team, sat on the senior leadership team, did lots of marketing stuff, partnerships, speaking gigs, and all other things revenue.Personally closed deals with JCPenney, Warner Brothers, Teva, Novartis, TMZ, AVG, SurveyMonkey, McClatchy, Viacom and more. 275% total ARR growth.

Opened up the US office of a UK based Developer Program Management agency. Closed deals at Qualcomm, Amazon, Microsoft, hired new GM and handed over responsibility.

OpenMarket is a business unit of Amdocs (NYSE: DOX) and is the 800lb gorilla of enterprise mobile communications (SMS, MMS and Push Notifications) in the US & globally. I owned relationships with all North American carriers (Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, AT&T etc.), Business & Market Development, Commercial Operations, & Industry Relations (CTIA, MMA, MEF, GSMA).Upon taking on this role, OpenMarket was generally ranked worst in the US carrier lists of aggregator partners. 12 months into the role, we were top across the board. Personally navigated high value/stress engagements up to General Counsel level at Verizon and others.Created several multi-million dollar deals. Name dropping some customers and partners: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Twilio, BBC, Google, News Corporation, Nokia, Microsoft, Virgin Atlantic, Coca Cola, Disney, Accenture, SingTel Optus, Vodafone, PayPal, ESPN... In this role, I had the best team, and the best side-kick ever!

Architected and drove high value and complex software deals with Fortune 500s and Global 2000s. Signed folks like Twilio and Accenture.

Proud to have been on the leadership team at MX Telecom; ground up, year on year organic growth through a highly successful exit to Amdocs in 2010. What an incredible ride.

Landed in Sydney with 2 bags. Signed deals with all of the carriers, opened an office, hired a team of technical and business staff, sold our products, made a ground-up $3m business, helped sell MX Telecom, left for Seattle. Epic.

Created and managed the global sales team. MX became the market leader for mobile messaging and payment products in the UK (SMS, MMS, Voice and Video). 500 global customers. These were the really fun years.

Joined MX Telecom as the 3rd full time employee. Helped grow the business from start up to over $100m in revenue. These were the graft years, all day everyday 365.

Cutting my teeth in sales in the City of London at the end of the bubble, recruiting Finance and Strategy positions for the likes of BT, WorldCom and Orange. Hard but educational times.