Bio

I am one of the world’s top campaigners for digital ethics and founder of The Crisis Team – a digital era crisis management firm, where working alongside the UK’s top cyberlaw experts, my team helps firms mitigate against, prepare for and, if necessary, deal with the impact of data breaches. A former global leader for IBM’s Financial Services Sector and strategist for UKCloud, an SMB that was the UK’s leading govtech player and the fastest growing privately held tech firm in Europe, I have extensive expertise in everything from fintech to govtech, working for firms large and small. I balance my corporate background and work as a judge on the UK Cloud Awards, with my support for privacy and digital ethics – having helped Max Schrems complete the crowd funding to launch None of Your Business (NOYB), the European NGO that is the centre of competence and enforcement for GDPR and which brought cases against all the tech giants on day one of GDPR. One of the world’s top social influencers, I focus on striking the right balance between digital transformation ‘changing the world’ (including cloud, AI, etc) and digital ethics ‘doing the right thing’ (including privacy, security, etc). As we move beyond the tech revolution and tech backlash, I have been in great demand, appearing widely in the press and as frequently as once a week on broadcast TV and Radio (more airtime than any other technologist in the UK) talking about the need for meaningful protection, as well as the need to maximise the overall economic and social benefit from technology. • Profiled as one of the top global influencers on Privacy by Onalytica • Listed as one of the top 10 global govtech influencers (and the only one in the top 10 from the UK) by NodeXL (part of the Social Media Research Foundation)