Currently at Aucctus
Aucctus is the AI-native operating system Fortune 500s licence and run themselves to manage corporate venturing, from market and customer intelligence through opportunity shaping, financial modelling and portfolio decisions to commercialisation.
I spent eighteen years doing this work the old way. I’m here because this is where the next way is being built: deciding which options get evidence, and which get capital.
In the Past
SVP Innovation, R&D + Emerging Technology - ADQ
Portfolio-wide innovation enablement across a $300B sovereign investor and 20+ operating companies including Etihad, TAQA and AD Ports, running an AED 500M fund that released capital against evidence rather than a business plan.
Co-Founder & CEO - Future Foundry
Experimentation practice helping global enterprises such as Walgreens, Ørsted and Hilton validate and launch new ventures, products and services.
Work
Over 18 years I’ve moved from shipping digital products, to building the teams that ship them, to designing the systems large portfolios use to decide what gets funded. Three capabilities run through all of it: opportunity identification, experimentation and go-to-market, across Fortune 500s, venture studios, sovereign wealth funds and my own angel investing.
Global Head of Next Gen Innovation - Aucctus
Duration: 2026 - Present
SVP Innovation, R&D + Emerging Technology - ADQ
Duration: 2025 - 2026
Advisory Board Member - Connected Places Catapult
Duration: 2025 - 2026
Co-Founder & CEO - Curzon Street Ventures
Duration: 2023 - 2025
Expert Instructor, Innovation Management - Maven
Duration: 2021 - 2025
Co-Founder & CEO - Future Foundry
Duration: 2021 - 2025
Managing Director, Innovation - Interpublic Group
Duration: 2018 - 2021
Managing Partner - 383
Duration: 2009 - 2018
Speaking & Writing
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Portfolio
I’ve launched 50+ propositions with Microsoft, HSBC, Hilton, Ørsted, Reckitt, Mars, Salesforce and USPS at a 90% validation-to-market success rate, and stopped over £1bn of investment in the ones that weren’t going to work.
Investing
I write $10K cheques into pre-seed and seed B2B SaaS and AI tools that fix what large organisations can’t fix themselves.
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Writing