Technical co-founder and CTO who builds AI for regulated and security-critical enterprises, and the teams that ship it.
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I build AI systems that have to pass security review, model risk and audit, and I've built the organisations that produce them. I was the first ML hire at a gene-therapy startup that was later acquired, co-founded one applied-AI organisation inside J.P. Morgan and founded a second that grew to 45+ people, and last year started TWG Global's UK AI business with no team and no clients on day one.
I'm still hands-on: I prototype the difficult parts myself, design the evaluation harnesses, and publish open-source systems and benchmarks on my own time. What I want next is to own the technology of a single product end to end rather than run a portfolio of other people's. PhD in AI, 25+ granted US patents
Head of AI, UK — TWG Global AI / Vergence AI (TWG–Palantir JV), London · Sep 2025 – present. Founded the UK AI business from nothing. Recruited and lead a 10-person team; shipped a multi-agent healthcare claims platform (MVP in 3 months, funded to production within 5) and an AI underwriting capability for a global specialty insurer (5-week pilot won a funded production contract). Up to 50% hands-on in Python, evaluation design and code review.
Executive Director, AI/ML — J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., London · May 2020 – Sep 2025. Co-founded CTO Applied Research as Chief Scientist, then founded AI², growing it to 45+ data scientists, engineers and product specialists. Shipped an LLM knowledge assistant adopted by tens of thousands of employees, graph-grounded agents, and AI applied to the firm's own security and operational-risk functions. Global CTO leadership team. 40+ patent filings, 8 open-source releases.
Senior Research Scientist & Team Lead — Huawei, London AI Research Lab · Feb 2018 – May 2020. Led three ML engineers in computational photography and low-light imaging. Published at CVPR, ECCV and ICPR; four patents; released DeepLPF and CURL (450+ combined GitHub stars).
Machine Learning Engineer (first ML hire) — Synpromics, Edinburgh · Jun 2016 – Feb 2018. Joined a pre-product gene-therapy startup and built its AI platform end to end. Company acquired by AskBio.
Software Engineer, Commodities Trading — Deutsche Bank, London · Sep 2005 – Jul 2008. Led a three-person team; shipped XENA, a bank-wide European power-scheduling platform, and an automated gas-market trading agent.
PhD, Artificial Intelligence — University of Edinburgh, 2016. Learning to hash for large-scale image retrieval. Supervised by Victor Lavrenko (Google), Charles Sutton (Google DeepMind) and Miles Osborne (Bloomberg). EPSRC Scholarship; Best Student Paper, ICMR 2014.
MSc, Artificial Intelligence (Distinction) — University of Edinburgh, 2009. Top of cohort; School of Informatics Medal for Outstanding Achievement.
MA, Computer Science & Management Studies — University of Cambridge, 2005. St Catharine's College; Thomas Hobbes Scholar.
