About Me

Welcome to my Vlog.

The CTO role has changed more in the last 18 months than in the previous decade. Scaling teams, managing delivery, and building infrastructure that doesn’t fall over is now table stakes. What matters is how fast you can make build/buy/partner/AI calls, how much you can ship with a smaller team, and whether you can hold a credible commercial conversation with the board.

I’m CTO of Digital Solutions at Vention, where I built the technical UK operation from a standing start and drive our global AI strategy – including the AI SDLC transformation programme, a five-stage maturity model that takes engineering organisations from individual AI exploration through to fully AI-driven, specification-first development. Most of my time is spent with founders, CTOs and engineering leaders working out what good looks like when the old playbook no longer applies.

This is the latest chapter in twenty-plus years of leading engineering through change: first CTO of a venture-backed events technology company, platform leadership for safety-critical healthcare used by major providers, and co-founder of a startup that pioneered contactless consumer experiences and was later acquired. The throughline has always been the same – building the coordination layer that makes complex systems and distributed teams actually function.

I still build. My spare time goes into shipping production software (personal projects) with AI coding agents using the same specification-first workflow I advise on – I don’t recommend anything I haven’t run myself.

Chartered Engineer (CEng) with the IET. Away from the day job I moderate panels and host events for CTO Craft, most recently on AI-native engineering, spec-driven development, and the changing shape of technical leadership.

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