Bio

- Leading innovation & research team at Pay.UK, catalysing the UK retail payments market - Trusted C-level advisor, entrepreneurial director and seasoned innovator with more than twenty years of working with blue-chip clients from infrastructure, engineering, financial services, FMCG, healthcare, ICT, government and social enterprise for firms such as Atkins, PwC and Andersen - Global leadership of innovation and corporate venturing at SThree, a leading recruitment business focusing on the STEM sector - Co-founder of Bridgelight, a tech start-up which uses intuitive interactive mapping of relationships and learning algorithms to explore complex networks of people and organisations - C-level advisor consultant for blue-chips including Alstom, Abellio, Atkins and others, as well as SMEs; specialising in developing innovation strategy and new market development and entry - Cross-sector systems thinker, known for challenging existing thinking and bringing fresh input and direction - Extensive experience of the strategic development and management of collaborative innovation and R&D portfolios and their management at board level - Proven track record of establishing dialogue and change across social and communal boundaries, challenging diversity practices, poor behaviours and brokering solutions - Published journalist, media-savvy and highly experienced presenter / writer - Track record of delivery of IT systems at scale in the global market and widely acknowledged as an industry expert in design-led rail and transport systems innovation, including contribution to senior industry bodies - Highly influential in the development of innovation capability within the UK transport industry and its supply chain, working closely with the national innovation agency, InnovateUK - Highly creative, commercial and decisive, with gravitas, outstanding academics and first-class influencing and communication skills