Where I work

HorizonX

Chief Executive Officer·2023 – present

A strategic innovation consultancy, founded in London. Twenty years inside a global bank taught the lesson it is built on: innovation programmes fail on sponsorship and capability, not ideas — so HorizonX builds the capabilities, processes, tooling and culture first.

McKinsey & Company

Senior Advisor·2025 – present

Senior advisor to McKinsey — strategic guidance to clients and consulting teams on the decisions that are hard to reverse, connecting clients with the networks that make a direction viable, and mentoring the talent doing the work.

MIT xPRO

Guest Lecturer·2025 – present

Guest lecturer on MIT xPRO’s Quantum Computing: Strategy and Impact — a six-step framework taking executives from why-quantum-matters-now through sponsorship, strategy and mobilisation to experimentation and scale.

The Quantum Index

Co-Founder·2024 – present

Co-founded to fix a specific problem: no enterprise can tell whether it is ahead or behind on quantum, because there is no shared measure. The Quantum Index benchmarks the quantum readiness of enterprises globally.

Zapata Quantum

Growth Advisory Board·2025 – present

Growth Advisory Board — making sure the science has a commercial engine behind it. Enterprise adoption strategy, executive engagement, and turning quantum capability into scalable competitiveness across aerospace, finance, energy, healthcare and manufacturing.

Classiq

Board Director

Board director at the company writing the compiler layer for quantum: developers describe an algorithm at a high level and a synthesis engine generates the optimised circuit underneath, targeting any hardware or simulator.

QuSecure

Senior Advisor

Senior advisor on post-quantum cryptography — the QuProtect R3 platform discovers an organisation’s cryptographic estate, remediates it without code changes or downtime, and reports quantum readiness for telecom, finance, defence and critical infrastructure.

Mitsubishi Corporation

Senior Advisor — Emerging Technology·2024 – present

Senior advisor on emerging technology to Mitsubishi’s London branch — quantum computing, AI and cybersecurity, and the harder half: aligning them with the company’s actual strategic objectives.

Digital Futures

Non Executive Director·2024 – present

Non-executive director, London.

Bain & Company

External Advisor·2023 – 2025

External advisor to Bain — driving business generation through industry insight, contributing to proposals and content, and bringing execution experience directly to case teams.

QuEra Computing

Corporate Director·2024 – 2025

Corporate director at QuEra — quantum computing built on large-scale arrays of atoms, laser-cooled to microkelvin temperatures and held in vacuum by movable laser tweezers. Its 256-qubit Aquila processor runs on Amazon Braket today.

SuperAlign

Advisor

Advisor to the safety layer for the AI-powered enterprise — mapping the AI attack surface and scoring it: shadow-AI discovery, data leakage, prompt injection, vendor risk and incident investigation.

TNE

Advisor

Advising TNE.ai on enterprise AI strategy and the convergence of quantum computing with AI deployments already in production — a platform built so an organisation owns its models and its data outright.

PolyAI

Senior Advisor·2024 – 2025

Senior advisor to PolyAI, reimagining customer service with voice assistants that handle real customer conversations end to end.

HSBC

Global Head of Innovation, Global Functions·2003 – 2023

Twenty years across Chicago, Paris and London — Change Delivery for 22 European countries, then Risk and Compliance transformation, finishing as Global Head of Innovation for Global Functions. Mobilised 387 innovation champions, turned 56 crowdsourced ideas into production, and graduated over 835 colleagues through the Risk Nanodegree.

Tracfone

Director, Programme Management Office·2001 – 2003

Built Tracfone’s entire Programme Management Office from scratch, introduced offshore development across multiple vendors for $9M of annual savings, and launched the Amigo handset into the Hispanic market alongside Roadside Assistance in 1,800 Walmart stores.

US Army

Specialist, 12B Combat Engineer·1991 – 1994

Where it starts. 1st Infantry Division, 1st Engineer Battalion — a 12 Bravo combat engineer who ran logistics intelligence for NATO REFORGER exercises in Germany, graduated Air Assault School, and left as an honourably discharged veteran.