Bridging the gap between Business Development and Technical, Product and Delivery teams. Ensuring the growth of Rebellion providing technical leadership within the Business Development team to align market positioning and go to market planning with the product roadmap. Driving growth through enabling meaningful technical interactions with customers, communicating product capabilities and providing technical solutions to customer issues.

Delivering SaaS products into the challenging market of defence and intelligence. Led Rebellion UK's Customer Success team, building a team of industry experts, driving customer success strategy by defining ARR linked strategies led by adoption, retention and expansion metrics. At the vanguard of Rebellion's product delivery. Building relationships with senior stakeholders, ensuring customer objectives are understood, influencing the engineering roadmap and providing market intelligence for customer engagement.

Rebuilt and led delivery of Zenzic’s strategy and programme of interventions to deliver a world class UK automated vehicle industry. Managed £200m of siloed activities into a cohesive programme with each investment complementing the whole.Built relationships with demanding stakeholders across DfT, BEIS and wider industry to qualify and gain buy in for a strategy to linking technology, regulation and industrialisation. led collaboration to define a 10 year vision and roadmap for self driving vehicles in the UK , endorsed by over 150 industry organisations.Convened complex and overlapping commercial organisations to identify and deliver technical collaboration and build globally competitive capabilities for self driving test and development.

Tailored contracting services delivering innovative outcome focussed advisory and project management services to the defence, cyber security and smart transportation industries - and often all 3 overlapping.

Providing advice and support to Cynam board and community to build the cyber security ecosystem.

Following co-founding cybersecurity startup developing new technology for deployment of turnkey cloud firewalls and networking. I developed investor pitches, acted as primary customer liaison and recruited and developed the delivery team.

leading a significant change programme to bring Highways England’s R&I programme into line with industry best practice. Developed systems for the company to measure, assess, stage gate and fund research and innovation. Implemented significant business changes including new evaluation systems, separation of research from innovation and the use of ‘agile methods’ for development of design standards reducing delivery of new regulations from 18 months to 3.

Building out the concepts technology and connections needed for a next generation cyber security solution.

Developing and discovering new ways to encourage technical innovation in government. I have led the delivery of a UK government technology incubator designed to harvest workforce/industry ideas and deliver them fast by failing faster. This is teaching government to focus on people first and technology second to ensure user need and workforce buy in are considered up front. Developing and implementing Lean Startup practices in government like innovation accounting, hypothesis driven experimentation and data driven learning. All this is changing the culture in government to accept failing fast and promote positive open debate about the reasons for failure.

Seconded to US Goverment Department of Defence to build bilateral research relationships. This post focused on creating new ways to connect UK and US Goverment researchers, engineers and developers. Projects ranged from short burst innovation activities like cloud analytics to large multi year research projects like optical and quantum computing.

Working within the Foreign Office's Security Policy Directorate my job was to ensure technology was a serious consideration during both planning for and reacting to crisis situations. I assisted senior policy makers and desk officers in understanding how they could use new technical innovations to deliver UK government foreign policy objectives.

Geospatial analysis for crisis response planning. I led a team charged with developing new ways to process and analyse geospatial data to assist crisis response planning. I opened up our opperating model to merge mostly static government data sources with emerging highly dynamic open source data sets. By leveraging open APIs we were able to significantly increase efficiency and create new opportunities.