Helping boards and founders put AI to work.
I’m a fractional CTO and board member. Over the past decade I’ve built and run technology companies, including one I grew to a million customers, and I still write the code. If AI, technical leadership or growth is on your plate, I’m happy to help.
I’ve had to live with the decisions I recommend.
I’ve spent more time building and running companies than talking about them. With AI especially, that tends to be the difference between advice that sounds good in the room and advice that still works once it’s in production.
Contract CTO & PE technical advisor · Various
Building teams, restructuring technical operations, and running technical and security due diligence for private equity. I also get asked to speak on the practical uses of AI.
CTO · Sonus Health (Decorte Future Industries)
Building an AI platform that screens dogs’ hearts for murmurs from a phone recording.
Founder & developer · breezy.chat
A B2B AI product that automates customer chat for activity businesses. In acquisition talks.
CEO, formerly CTO · eola
Founded the UK’s largest activity-booking platform. £50m in bookings, 1m+ customers, used by the UK government. Promoted CTO→CEO by the board; grew revenue 60% while cutting costs 75% the following year.
Engineering manager · Moteefe
First internal hire, so I built the team. Drove development of a new platform, fixed some serious performance problems, and put proper engineering processes in place.
Founder & developer · Omnidev
Built a Soho dev agency from scratch. Its niche was getting into the commercials and the business proposition, not just shipping code.
Tech lead · Earlymarket
Prototyped a run of SaaS products for a venture firm, including some genuinely odd ones (safety equipment for helicopters among them).
Systems developer · Chiltern IT
Taught myself on the fly and ended up responsible for the relaunch: rebuilding the site, adding Elasticsearch, an ETL pipeline and the ERP internals.
Dan formally joined me as an advisor, helping with tech, product and our go-to-market strategy. He has a fantastic ability to “tell you how it is”, in the nicest way possible. We’ve since raised millions to help change the future of healthcare.
Dan has led eola to success. He has a great eye for strategy, whilst being able to dig into and understand the detail. He has created a motivated team, and runs a tight ship.
Technically gifted, patiently encouraging, widely informed and uncommonly thoughtful. Simply put, he’s the best boss I’ve had, and I’d jump at the chance to work with him again.
Dan is full of energy, enthusiasm and ideas. He combines strong IT skills with creative flair and commercial thinking. Congratulations if you’re lucky enough to hire him.
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Boards, founders and investors: if AI, technical leadership, a deal or stalled growth is on your mind, send a note. You’ll get a straight, honest answer.
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