Serial Entrepreneur, engineering leader, and executive with over 25 years of experience in artificial intelligence, machine learning, business, consumer, and financial technologies. Proficient in large-scale technology transformations, agile development, collaborative leadership, and corporate innovation. Managed teams of 150+ in Engineering, Product, Design and Data. Proven leadership in Fintech, Dating, Social Networking, eCommerce, Marketplaces and SaaS. - Co-founded PayDesk, a gig-economy marketplace used by over 10k freelance journalists and trusted by global media organizations.- Led integrity efforts at Facebook. Projects ranged from complying with strict EU regulatory requirements to creating ML-driven identity and company verification systems at scale (the Meta Verified blue check).- Led the strategic redevelopment of Lendinvest's legacy tech, rolling out an AWS-hosted micro-services suite that incorporated a proprietary loan engine to automate the management a £1 billion loan book.- Led the creation corporate innovation arm for Octopus Investments, launching two fintech platforms as zero-to-one initiatives that grew to £350 million AUM in 18 months. - Transformed BirthdayAlarm's legacy tech, reversing a revenue decline into a 20% YoY revenue growth, by revamping the product offering for the site's 55 million members.
Listed skills include Start Ups, Web Development, Mobile Applications, Social Networking, and 19 others.