Chief Product & Technology Alchemist
Startup to Private Equity Value Creator
Visionary leader with 25+ years transforming businesses through strategic product innovation. Expert in AI commercialisation, portfolio optimisation, and post-M&A integration. Builder of high-performing global teams across the entire lifecycle - from founding ventures to scaling public companies and driving PE-backed growth. Passionate about creating products users love and delivering returns investors can count on.
From writing my first commercial software at twelve years old - reducing 10-minute engineering calculations to 5 seconds - to driving €100M+ in ARR growth, I've built my career on one principle: Transforming product portfolios to deliver exceptional returns.
My approach blends strategic vision with practical execution, helping product teams navigate complex PE environments where both speed and precision matter. I bridge the gap between investment thesis and product reality through:
With 25+ years leading product strategy in high-stakes environments, I specialise in accelerating growth for private equity-backed companies. At Chaos, I increased ARR by 25% to over €100M within 18 months. At Blue Prism, I expanded the product portfolio from $50M to $250M+ ARR, contributing directly to its $1.6B acquisition.
As founder of PlayGen (£100M+ in joint ventures) and Digital Shoreditch (40,000+ participants, £2M annual turnover without external funding), I bring entrepreneurial instinct to corporate environments.
With a PhD in Computer Science and Psychology, advanced AI studies at MIT Sloan and London School of Economics and Masters in Architecture, I combine technical depth with strategic thinking. Let's connect to discuss how I can help transform your product portfolio into your next success story.
With over two decades of experience driving product innovation across multiple industries, I combine strategic vision with deep expertise in emerging technologies. My approach integrates business acumen, design thinking, and technical leadership to deliver exceptional results, whether scaling startups, optimizing portfolios for PE-backed companies, or transforming established enterprises through AI and cloud solutions.
Leading the transformation of visualization technology that empowered 400K+ creators while driving 24% ARR growth to €100M+. Managed and optimized portfolio of industry-leading products including V-Ray, Phoenix, Cosmos, Corona Renderer, Enscape 3D, Chaos Cloud and Cylindo.
Oversaw the entire product portfolio and led the product org. Strategized the lifecycle of products, ensuring they aligned with the company's broader vision and offered market value.
Built and managed the organization to deliver outstanding value through data, AI, simulations and gaming technologies, reaching over 2 million customers and users.
Founded and led a large annual festival celebrating the outstanding creative, technical and entrepreneurial talent of the UK.
At one of the largest architecture & design networks in the world, built and managed teams of visualisation and graphics designers delivering over 100 projects.
How can we increase team performance in online social creativity platforms? A randomised controlled experiment with 38,180 sessions to maximise the performance of teams through personalising UX to each individual using gamification and AI, and based on personality and interaction preferences. Demonstrated potential increase in performance by up to 300%
Gained a much deep understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of ethics of AI, so that I can now adeptly diagnose the challenges and opportunities posed by AI in various domains. Armed with the tools to identify and evaluate inequalities of resources, opportunities, and power in the workplace arising from AI applications.
Completed with merit. This was a nine month distant learning course for becoming an APM in software development. The course covered PRINCE2 Methodologies and Practice, Agile project management life-cycle, and Product management leadership and team development.
I have a Masters in Architectures, as well as BA and Post Graduate diploma in Architecture from Sheffield University. My Master thesis was on Artificial Intelligence in the Built Environment.
I've had the privilege of working with some of the world's leading organisations, helping them innovate and create products that their users love. Each collaboration has contributed to my understanding of diverse industry needs and challenges.
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