Bio

✪ Strategist and tech entrepreneur. Led, founded and helped others build businesses across four continents and held every main C-suite position. ✪ 13 startups founded/co-founded. 4 successful exits, 2 failures, 1 failure to launch - remaining companies still in play. ✪ Sweat equity support/refounding of 5 startups. 1 successful exit, 1 upcoming and 3 still in play. ✪ Current portfolio - (typically as founder/co-founder) healthcare AI analytics, distributed AI computational capacity, 5G/private networks, Fiber to the Home/Next-Gen Access in UK and Africa. ✪ #tech4good approach with companies able to: save 350,000 lives annually in the US, $12.5bn of direct cost and 11m bed-days | drive a 95% reduction in care planning overheads and AI-based early identification of critical conditions | deploying the first 5G private network in the UK | deliver 10G broadband to the home ✪ Mentor on the GE Edison Accelerator / Wayra programme. Supporting AI companies in digital health. ✪ Guest lecturer at University College London and honorary lecturer at School of Medicine, UCLAN - on masters level, digital health courses. ✪ On Academic Advisory Board of the College of Contemporary Healthcare ✪ COGX Keynote speaker in Global Leadership - Winner of Health Tech 4 Covid19 innovation award and overall Tech 4 Covid19 Award at COGX 2020 (C2-AI) ✪ Interviewed on BBC News and BBC 5Live and chair at 50+ tech events on five continents (AI, IoT, Smart Cities, NGA, FTTH) ✪ Only private sector expert on national medical device regulator’s project using AI to develop synthetic data sets and develop methodologies for verifying AI software in healthcare. ✪ AI lead for Patient Safety Learning organisation ✪ Mentor on the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur programme ✪ Author of ''Project Management Survival'' (Kogan Page - English, Mandarin, Polish and Latvian), “The One Day MBA” (ICSA) and ''Strategy Genius'' (Hodder – English and Arabic).