Build what comes next.
Building the businesses, capabilities and teams that turn AI into lasting value.

Partner at Gartner. Enterprise AI and transformation.
Writing and speaking on AI and leadership.
From ambition to execution.
Taking enterprise AI from pilot to production takes clear commercial direction, capable teams and decisions that hold up in practice.
My perspective connects enterprise AI with business building: choosing where to focus, developing capability and taking responsibility for delivery.
Gartner
Building enterprise AI capability across offering development, commercial relationships, architecture and accountable delivery.
Slalom
Growing teams and cloud partnerships, and developing the capability to put strategy to work.
2nd Watch
Developing strategic accounts and the commercial discipline behind lasting client relationships.
My work at Gartner
Most enterprise AI stalls at the pilot.
It stalls for two reasons. The work isn’t tied to what matters to the organisation, and the governance around it was built to stop things changing. Unsticking that is most of my week.
Partner, EMEA | AI Strategy and Transformation Lead, Gartner Consulting, London
I lead Gartner Consulting’s AI solutions business across EMEA. Half my week is business development, working with senior clients and account teams to turn early interest into well-defined engagements. The other half is delivery: I stay hands-on with teams of three to eight, building the core answer myself when it matters and presenting it to the client directly. Across the wider EMEA AI portfolio, I turn what works into reusable offerings, shape who we hire and run the enablement that gets our teams and clients to value faster.
I started as a developer and I still build. AI agents I’ve built are in production at Gartner, helping consultants answer clients faster, and I lead a community of AI builders. Outside work, I build my own tools.
A global power technology manufacturer
An execution framework and operating model that moved it from experimentation to governed, scalable delivery, with AI use cases now in production.
A UK public sector body
An agentic AI strategy and delivery framework that shaped how it built its first agentic workloads.
Earlier experience
I’ve run the thing as well as advised on it.
Slalom
I built the UK&I cloud and emerging technology capability, sponsored the AWS partnership that earned us AWS SI Partner of the Year for UK&I in 2023, and grew our UK&I and EMEA cloud and emerging tech business from about £1M to about £15M.
2nd Watch
I hired 90 people, scaled the cloud solutions organisation from 24 to about 115, and grew a global beverage company account from about $3,000 a month to more than $15M a year in revenue.
Before that
Four and a half years as a CTO.
More about me
I’m American, originally from Atlanta, Georgia. I moved to London in 2021 with no network, built a career here and went from Senior Director to Partner in three years. I’m grateful for the community I’ve found on this side of the pond. I think in systems, and I run the same frameworks over my own career that I run over a client’s organisation.
Away from the desk, I like things that can’t be rushed. Wine, which I collect and study (WSET Level 3), mostly as an excuse to keep exploring. Bonsai, which teach patience to someone who never had much. A 1963 Chevy pickup my dad and I are bringing back to life, one weekend at a time. Formula 1 and motorcycles for when the pace needs to go the other way. And diving: I’m rescue certified and I’ll get in the water anywhere, partly for what’s down there and partly because Teams doesn’t work underwater. Over 45 countries so far, and the list isn’t finished.
In the room.
Practical conversations about AI, business value and the decisions leaders need to make.

Speaking.
Talks and panels on enterprise AI, leadership, governance and business value. Selected talks and panels, most recent first.
Coming up in Barcelona
Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo
Barcelona, November 2026
- Beyond Technology: The Human Side of AITwo sessions: one for commercial organisations and one for the public sector
- Navigating Sovereign AI in Regulated IndustriesOne session
Past talks and panels
2026
- Scaling AI with Confidence: Governance and Architecture Patterns That Deliver Business ValueGartner webinarJuly 2026
- Inside the AI Garage: The Minimum Viable Data Needed to Turn Experiments into Embedded ValueGartner Data & Analytics Summit, LondonMay 2026
- Beyond the Pilot: Turning AI Usage into Embedded WorkGartner CIO Leadership Forum, LondonMarch 2026
- Sense, Decide, Effect: How Defence Can Get the Foundations RightGartner Defence webinarFebruary 2026
2025
- Sense, Decide, Effect: How Defence Can Get the Foundations RightGartner IT Symposium/Xpo, BarcelonaNovember 2025
- Agentic AI in FSI: Separating Hype from High-Impact RealityAWS UK, at Transforming Financial Services on AWSOctober 2025
- Sovereignty by Design in a Fragmented WorldGartner webinarJune and July 2025
2024
- Cloud Computing, Digital Transformation and the UK’s Productivity CrisistechUK panelApril 2024
- Cloud Adoption and Modernisation for SMEs, Start-ups and Scale-upstechUK webinar panelMarch 2024
2023
- The Tech Debrief: Emerging TechnologiesDigital City Festival, Manchester, panel chaired by techUKMarch 2023
Continue the conversation.
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Borders and Balance.
Writing on AI, leadership and the balance between ambition and delivery. Join the waitlist.