Technical lead for multi-disciplinary AI group, working with fast-moving start-ups to enterprise scale digital transformations (e.g. UAE gov projects). Specialize in real-time distributed data science solutions for real-time decision making. GenAI just one component.Recent projects:- Anomaly-as-a-Service using world’s biggest network measurement dataset. TS Foundation Models and MLOps platform. - Quantum AI: evaluation of QAI solutions and their realizations for Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) use cases.- Large Media Group (UAE WAM): GenAI platform design for news, news radar and fact-checking. LLMs, GPT-4, fine-tuning, guard-rails, weak supervision, knowledge graphs, agents.- GenAI for UK hospitality platform: semantic search, Solr, LLMs, Huggingface, Bi-Encoders, custom embeddings with Contrastive Learning. Ref. architecture for AI/GenAI data platform inc. knowledge graphs.- Vertical SaaS GenAI and AI/ML solutions for travel industry: LLMs, predictive search, API orchestration. Identification of AI-first product opportunities. Focus on LLMs optimized to interpret travel itineraries via "GenAI Reasoning/Planning".- Vertical SaaS in Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) for world's leading vendor: LLMs, Transformers, Multi-modal Transformers, Semantic Search, Digital Twins, Data Fabrics. Added value via Horizon 3 AI-first strategy for DXPs using Data Fabric architectural approach.- Vertical SaaS in wellness sector for AI-first digital therapeutics solution using holistic medicine: LLMs, semantic search, behavioral UX frameworks. Added value via proposal of AI-first architecture and product strategy using latest GenAI techniques combined with behavioral psychology (e.g. gamification) to maximize wellness efficacy using AI.- Enterprise sales maximization using "Cognitive Selling", which is AI Synthetic Sales Teams: LLMs, large-scale data management (e.g. Data Fabric) etc. Value added via strong link between AI methods and sales revenue levers.

I am the Principal AI Mentor in the Silicon Valley Seed2Exit network to evaluate AI start/scale-ups, especially for viable product/tech approaches and expansion opportunities.Seed2Exit is Silicon Valley LLC comprised of experienced management consultants working to supportStartups in their Growth Stage. Our team of global experts have at least 20+ years’ experience inStrategic Marketing and Alliances, Global Sales, Business Development and Operational Experience. Wework with our clients to assess their current business model, to refine it and then execute on GTM basedsales, marketing, and business development plan. Our collective experience spans across dozens ofFortune 1000 companies and multiple Startups across different business verticals. We have been part ofsuccess stories as well as several failures. This “school of hard knocks” has given us the insights andbusiness acumen to help our business founders reach their goals.

Lead tech efforts to create serverless AI-first data fabric "knowledge observability" for hyper-scale projects using Digital Twin methodology (e.g. "cognitive cities"). AWS Lambda, Semantic Search (Elastic+LLMs), Graph DB (Neptune), NoSQL (DynamoDB), Huggingface, PyTorch, Auth0. Ultra-composable data fabric using Entity-Component-System pattern inspired by massive gaming (MMOGs).Value: accelerating adoption of latest AI and data-centric techniques into viable product strategy.

[7 patents] Led R&D/product "internal start-up" using data-science and AI. “Loan Acquisition Engine” (serverless) using novel AI embeddings. Built fin-doc OCR computer-vision pipeline (scikit-learn) using Stroke-Width Txform: out-performed all vendor OCR solutions. Coded elastic credit-pricing model (scikit-learn). Built NLP chatbot “loan-speak” language model. AI-driven user identity onboarding. Designed suite of blockchain lending Web3 protocols. (Reporting to CTO/CEO.)Value: accelerating transition to tech-first company with deep IP portfolio to build better products and deeper defensive moat in highly competitive market. Culture transformation towards AI-first ops.

[8 patents] Led R&D/product team ("internal startup") using data science, AI and mobile. AI/ML for aesthetic décor search, UX saliency maps, style-based image curation, NLG “décor language model”. World-class perceptual color tech (with Pantone) for décor. UX lab in “aesthetic saliency” — what we “see” in art and UX. Built hardware lab for digital art device (Klio) — see Venturebeat. IP portfolio +10% to valuation. Value: accelerating transition to tech-first company with deep IP portfolio to make company attractive to buyers and partners. Was acquired by Walmart Labs Inc.

Springboard is a start-up incubator program in the UK. I advised companies in the University of Cambridge cohort, focussed on mobile computing and applied AI.

Whilst CTO for O2 Labs, also ran BlueVia Labs for Telefonica's Global API and data platform using open innovation strategies.Value: setting broader vision and enabling technical foundations for becoming a platform-centric business for new revenue streams.

Ran large global cross-functional team with multiple technology, customer and innovation partners. Pioneered development of novel cPaaS solution for building real-time comms apps in the cloud using a novel scripting language (connFu) to make low-code telco apps 10x faster. API-first product strategy.Pioneered "Telco 2.0" open platforms digital transformation and wrote a book about it: Connected Services (Wiley). Pioneered product-centric IT (use of Lean) to accelerate O2 services rollout: 5x cost/time reduction. Founded O2's start-up incubator as part of open innovation strategy.Value: transformation to agile product and proprietary tech innovation methods to build platform for massive reduction in product cycles in order to access new revenue streams. Had profound impact upon whole of business culture and launched many new produce lines with 5x speed improvement.

Converted Formula One racing tech into modern stream-processing analytics platform for high-performance IoT applications with pluggable ML "function as service". Foundation for spin-out biz transformation (McLaren Applied) -- new revenue streams from performance brands (e.g. Nike, Specialized etc).Value: created cornerstone technology for creation of brand new business division that opened up new revenue streams in performance-data markets.

Lead global applications R&D team (UK/UAE/US/Brazil) building use cases and solutions for carriers. During tenure, wrote 2nd edition of world’s first mobile apps textbook (for Wiley). Also ran omni-channel UX lab in Chicago.Value: converted Motorola Mobile from product to services company with large new revenue streams from carriers and partners. Drove rapid product use case evaluation to drive new solution-sales culture.

Founded Europe’s first mobile apps start-up. Built apps for Lucent Technologies, NTT DoCoMo, IBM, Credit Suisse, Netscape, Microsoft.Value: drove many of the early mobile apps services and solutions throughout EMEA and North Am. Created significant value for clients in enterprise mobile applications that helped pioneer many new products and services. Acquired by Glenayre Inc.

[16 patents] Advanced DSP chip and co-processor design for GSM. Pioneered the development of the chipset radio for GSM. Pioneered system-level simulation techniques and use of advanced queue-based modeling of large-scale systems. Patented use of AI (Deep Learning) in network management.Value: my work pioneered the transition towards "chipset radio" architectures for cellular platforms, paving the way for the radical cell-size reduction and density increase that made modern cellular possible and drove the entire mobile revolution.