I sit at the junction of data, AI, and human outcomes.

I help organisations understand what they are genuinely ready for, and build the architecture that turns ambition into operating capability. Over twenty years I have moved from hands-on software engineering through enterprise architecture and into strategic leadership across healthcare, life sciences, and regulated technology environments. The thread running through all of it is the same: data that is governed well, designed thoughtfully, and connected to the people it is ultimately meant to serve.

My recent work includes leading AI and data architecture strategy across major NHS programmes, including Secure Data Environments and Trusted Research Environments where multi-modal clinical data enables precision medicine research. Before that, as Deputy Director for Innovation and Real World Data at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, I shaped how one of Europe's leading cancer hospitals governed, integrated, and activated its data to support clinical insight and research outcomes. Part of that work meant sitting in living-with-and-beyond-cancer sessions with patients and clinicians. That grounding goes with me into every technology decision I make.

Areas of expertise

How I work

I help communication flow. I form new language that makes complex things navigable. I decomplexify; I take what is technically dense and make it humanly accessible. The word I keep coming back to is glue — the connective tissue between technical capability and organisational reality that most delivery programmes underestimate until it is missing.

The work I find most useful is being in the room where the strategy gets set and the architecture gets decided — and making sure both are honest about what the organisation is actually ready for. Technology adoption without maturity-matched foundations is waste, or harm. The shortcut is almost never cheaper, just more expensive later.

Why it matters to me

My faith is the foundation underneath all of this. I hold that humans were made in the image of a creator, and that the creative impulse is part of what it means to be human. AI, used well, is an extension of that creativity. Used badly, it hollows people out. The difference between those two outcomes is almost always a question of what the leaders and designers were actually trying to optimise for.

I write because I think the AI conversation is missing something. Most of what circulates is either hype or fear, and neither is useful to the people actually trying to make good decisions inside organisations. I write about organisational maturity, capability debt, and what genuine AI readiness looks like in practice — for leaders who want to think clearly, not just move fast.

Currently open to

Director and VP-level roles in health technology, AI strategy, precision medicine, and mission-driven organisations where technology decisions have weight. I am also available for speaking and consulting engagements on AI adoption maturity and data strategy in healthcare. The speaking page is the right place to start.

I write regularly on LinkedIn — that is the most honest record of what I am currently thinking about.

I live in the UK with my wife of twenty-two years and our two daughters. I play acoustic guitar as my main instrument, electric as my second, and bass as my third — with the piano as an occasional noodling ground. I listen to a lot of contemporary Christian music. I am part of a community of Christian AI technologists thinking about what "AI for good" looks like in practice.