Fractional product leadership for complex software

I’ve spent the last twenty years building, leading and advising on software products across startups, universities, SaaS businesses and research-led organisations.

I’m most useful when a team needs someone who can move between board-level ambition, customer needs, technical constraints and the practical detail of getting products built.

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I was born in Pennsylvania and raised in New Jersey. My story starts where many early internet builders’ stories do: glued to a screen at twelve, building a Pokémon fan site on AngelFire with basic HTML and iframes.

An early fascination with Japanese culture led me to study the language seriously, win a scholarship, leave home at fourteen and spend a year in Fukui Prefecture as a high school exchange student. That was my first experience of being dropped into a complex system and having to learn the language, patterns and expectations quickly.

That thread has followed me ever since.

I went to university in London, then moved to Seoul, South Korea, where I founded an online arts magazine, curated exhibitions and led an artist collective. With little money and no institutional backing, I learned how to organise people, build an audience, tell a story and make something exist before there was any obvious reason it should.

After returning to the UK, I moved into marketing, product and technology roles at boutique agencies. I eventually realised I was generating a substantial part of the revenue around me and decided to work independently.

A chance encounter at the UK’s first Startup Weekend with Ben Dixon, now CTO of Sona, and Huw Walters, later Staff AI Product Manager at Meta, introduced me to Eric Ries and the Lean Startup methodology. That weekend led to my first company: a data aggregation and digital analytics startup that later earned an invitation to 10 Downing Street in recognition of excellence in entrepreneurship.

While working out of Google Campus London, I joined BioBeats, a digital health company spun out of heart-rate variability research at the University of Surrey. I served as CMO for three years, working with global insurance companies and health brands as the company grew into a leading AI platform in the human health space. BioBeats was later acquired by Huma.com.

During that period, I also trained as a certified yoga teacher under the direct mentorship of Rahoul Masrani. I lectured in entrepreneurship at Surrey Business School and digital analytics at the University of Exeter, teaching hundreds of founders and students at undergraduate and master’s level.

That connection with Surrey became a major part of my work for the next nine years as an externally funded researcher and consultant, applying data science, social listening, AI-assisted analysis and product thinking to commercial research projects across animal health, healthcare, education and technology.

That work gave me deep experience translating complex research, data and technical methods into useful insight, product direction and client-facing outputs.

Today, I live by the beach with my wife of 21 years and our Boston Terrier. I work independently as a full-time fractional CPO and product consultant for a small number of companies at a time.

I also organise Silicon Mingle, a tech community that has brought together over a thousand builders, founders and operators across the North of England since 2023.

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