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What I offer

Scale-Up Readiness & Acceleration

Scale-Up Readiness & Acceleration

I help early-stage and scaling teams align product strategy, team growth, and capital efficiency to support 10x scale. My approach helps founders uncover blockers, focus execution, and build the structure needed for confident, high-velocity growth.

Investor Diligence & Narrative Shaping

Investor Diligence & Narrative Shaping

From data rooms to burn-rate charts, I guide founders in crafting a compelling investment story—and backing it with diligence-ready materials. I connect the dots between product vision, marketing strategy, and hiring/financial forecasts to present a clear plan for capital use and growth.

Product Strategy & Market Fit

Product Strategy & Market Fit

Refine your vision into a focused, validated product roadmap. I help early- and mid-stage teams de-risk product decisions using real customer signals, prioritization frameworks, and market feedback loops that support product-led growth.

Transatlantic Growth Strategy

Transatlantic Growth Strategy

I help UK/EU startups expand into the US and Canadian markets and access growth capital. For DefTech companies, this includes engagement and fundraising strategies with aligned venture capital partners, and connecting with US DoD innovation and Rapid Capability programs.

Fractional Executive Leadership

Fractional Executive Leadership

I embed as a Fractional CPO/COO to align product, teams, and operations for scale. I help founders architect their team structure, define hiring strategy, and—when needed—directly engage in talent selection and team buildout to achieve critical outcomes.

Founder & Senior Leader Mentoring

Founder & Senior Leader Mentoring

I work one-on-one with founders and senior leaders at key inflection points—whether scaling, resetting, or transitioning. Sparring partner and sounding board with a trusted outside perspective to help them gain clarity, set priorities, lead with confidence and navigate change, growth, and pressure.

Innovation Operating Models

Innovation Operating Models

Enable faster innovation without sacrificing clarity or accountability. I introduce lightweight frameworks that align and link capital funding flows, product discovery, and teams—creating operating conditions where experimentation and speed are balanced with rigor and transparency.

Insights on Economics of Innovation

Insights on Economics of Innovation

Economics of Innovation and pace of change is disruptive to traditional methods of measuring value and performance

I explore the Global Enterprise Value (GEV) divergence between traditional and Tech/Digital Native companies & how leaders perceive value of investments in software technology

Experiences

Co-Founder, Head of Product &  Scalability

Co-Founder, Head of Product & Scalability

A new way for people to discover and "Shop Local Anywhere" with independent retailers whether they have online businesses, market kiosks, or brick-and-mortar shops on...or off the High Streets.

Enterprise Agility  & Digital Transformation Consultant - various UK

Enterprise Agility & Digital Transformation Consultant - various UK

Coaching and Consulting for Executives, Portfolio, Technology Finance and HR leaders to assess and optimize the ability to innovate, learn and change direction at a rapid pace within their teams and across organizational silos.

CEO & COO Advisor - Swoop Funding

CEO & COO Advisor - Swoop Funding

Advisor to CEO and COO co-founders on optimizing practices for 10x rapid team scale up funded by £5M Banking Competition Remedies (BCR) grant.

Transactive Asia Strategic Program Manager - ANZ Bank

Transactive Asia Strategic Program Manager - ANZ Bank

Helped create high agility portfolio framework for AUD $180M program that de-risked and accelerated pace of Cash Management software development flow and integration with RBS and ABM AMRO aquisitions across 16 Indo-Pacific countries.

1st Agile Program Manager - H&R Block USA

1st Agile Program Manager - H&R Block USA

My first experience with Agile ways of working and the challenges adapting traditional strategic planning, budgeting, governance and financial practices when I led

20 year US military veteran

20 year US military veteran

First decade with US Army ranging from Intelligence, Security and Reconnaissance in scout platoons, in to intel ops in 101st Air Assault Division and with US Forces Korea (2nd ID). The next decade in US Air Force with Security Forces on multiple deployments to European Theater.

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Roles (/)
  • i.e. Marketing director
  • i.e. Mentor
  • Startup Co-Founder
  • Scaleup Mentor
  • Fractional CPO / COO For Scaleups
  • Head Of Product, Chief Product Officer
  • Chief Operating Officer (COO)
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Industries (/)
  • i.e. Tech
  • i.e. Education
  • Fintech
  • B2b SaaS
  • Banking
  • Financial services
  • Defense
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Career experience

21-30 years

Regions
  • Europe, 
  • North America (east coast), 
  • North America (west coast)
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Skills (/)
  • i.e. Research
  • i.e. Branding
  • Executive Advisory
  • Founder coaching
  • High growth start-ups and scale-ups
  • Investor Research for Startups
  • International Expansion
  • Product strategy for startups
  • Digital transformation enablement
  • Agile Strategy Planning & Execution
  • IT Governance
  • Economics of Innovation
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Keywords (/)
  • i.e. Digital nomad
  • i.e. Ex-Google
  • founder
  • investor
  • Board Advisor
  • Innovation Strategy & Governance Consultant
  • Agile Strategy and Governance
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