Dec 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 5 mos

• As CEO & Co-Founder, I lead Asite’s global strategy and evolution as a collaborative technology platform serving capital-projects-intensive industries. Over the past five years I've guided the organization through a period of strong commercial acceleration—growing ARR from roughly £7M to £30M (34% CAGR), sustaining ~15% profitability, and scaling our presence across Europe, North America, APAC, and the Middle East.
• Beyond the commercial trajectory, my work in this role has focused increasingly on the deep structural questions of industry collaboration: how fragmented supply chains can interoperate; how standards, specifications, and shared data models can reduce friction; and how digital infrastructure can serve as the connective tissue for cross-organisational work.
• Key areas of leadership include:
• Guiding Asite toward a more open, ecosystem-oriented architecture aligned to industry standards
• Driving global adoption of interoperable collaboration practices across asset owners, contractors, and supply chains
• Advancing the idea that digital platforms should enable shared governance and transparent data exchange, not reinforce silos
• Supporting industry efforts to coalesce around community-defined frameworks that improve collaboration at scale
• My work at Asite is part of a broader, long-term commitment to movement-building in digital engineering—helping shift the industry from closed, proprietary workflows toward open, collaborative ecosystems that empower organisations, practitioners, and communities alike.

Jul 2007 – Dec 2019 · 12 yrs 5 mos

• As COO and Executive Director, I oversaw Asite’s global operations, customer delivery, and organisational scale-up. This period was defined not only by operational growth, but by expanding the platform’s role in enabling collaboration between organisations that had historically worked in isolation.
• Key contributions included:
• Scaling delivery and operations across multiple geographies, enabling cross-border, cross-disciplinary collaboration
• Embedding standards-aligned, interoperable practices into Asite’s platform evolution
• Strengthening multi-stakeholder onboarding, governance, and lifecycle collaboration processes
• Ensuring customers could use Asite as a neutral space for shared information, rather than another proprietary silo
• This was also a formative period in my belief that digital platforms should form part of a broader, community-driven movement toward open collaboration, rather than functioning as isolated tools. The operational lessons from these years continue to inform my thinking about how industries can transition to more open, frictionless modes of working.

Jun 2001 – Jul 2007 · 6 yrs 1 mo

• As CTO & Executive Director during Asite’s formative years, I designed the technical foundations of the platform and built a 300+ person engineering organisation in Ahmedabad, India. During this period Asite was a public company listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) in London. Much of this early work centred on the challenge that would define my later career: how to enable shared, interoperable, multi-organisation collaboration at scale.
• Core contributions included:
• Defining Asite’s early collaboration, data-exchange, and multi-party workflow frameworks
• Leading engineering, product, and architecture functions across distributed global teams
• Building some of the first open-connector and schema-based interoperability approaches in the AEC collaboration space
• Demonstrating how digital infrastructure could support community-wide, standards-aligned collaboration, not just internal project teams
• These early architectural choices—and the broader philosophy they embodied—laid the groundwork for my long-term focus on open collaboration ecosystems and the importance of shared digital infrastructure in enabling industry-wide change.

Jan 2009 – Feb 2012 · 3 yrs 1 mo · London Area, United Kingdom

• As a member of BSI Committee B/555, I helped shape the standards that ultimately evolved into the ISO 19650 series, now the global benchmark for information management across the built environment.
• The committee’s work began as the UK’s PAS 1192 framework, progressed into BS 1192, and later—through international collaboration and harmonisation—formed the basis of ISO 19650 Parts 1 & 2, adopted worldwide.
• My work within the committee focused on:
• Contributing to the definition of structured, standards-based information management across project delivery and asset operation
• Supporting the development of guidance for digital representation, exchange, and lifecycle governance
• Shadowing and collaborating with ISO committees (ISO/TC 59/SC13 and ISO/TC 10/SC8) to advance the alignment of UK work with global practice
• Advocating for consistent, interoperable information workflows capable of supporting entire supply chains
• This period strengthened my conviction that shared frameworks and international standards are essential to achieving true open collaboration—a principle that continues to shape my approach to digital infrastructure and industry transformation.

Mar 2008 – Sep 2012 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Englemere, Ascot, Berkshire, UK

• Members of the CIOB panel focused on fostering innovation and research in the UK and Commonwealth construction industries and on unifying the university research establishments with the government / institutional and private sector agendas. (so no small task then!)
• It was a great pleasure to be a part of this team and a privilege to meet some amazing individuals dedicated to improving our built environment.

Jan 2008 – Jan 2019 · 11 yrs · London Area, United Kingdom

• I founded Build Earth Live as a global, community-driven demonstration of what open collaboration could look like at scale. Across events in London, Sydney, Doha, Dubai, Riyadh, Newcastle, New York City, and Houston, Build Earth Live brought together architects, engineers, designers, technologists, and students to work side-by-side in high-intensity, standards-based digital design competitions.
• Rather than presenting collaboration as a product feature, Build Earth Live treated it as a movement:
• A shared experiment in open, cross-disciplinary digital engineering
• A platform to demonstrate the power of interoperable, standards-aligned workflows
• A global community exploring new modes of collective problem solving
• A live laboratory for what the future of digital collaboration could become
• Many of the lessons from these events—about openness, transparency, co-creation, and the social dynamics of collaboration—have profoundly shaped my subsequent thinking about industry-wide digital infrastructure and the role of movements in accelerating systemic change.

Jun 2007 – Dec 2012 · 5 yrs 6 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• As a board member of the IAI (now buildingSMART), I contributed to one of the earliest global movements advancing open standards, transparent information exchange, and interoperable digital ecosystems for the built environment. The organisation’s work—including the development and adoption of IFC (Industry Foundation Classes), BCF (BIM Collaboration Format), and COBie (Construction-Operations Building information exchange)—has shaped the foundations of modern digital engineering and remains central to industry-wide collaboration today.
• My contributions included:
• Supporting the evolution and adoption of IFC as a vendor-neutral, extensible data model enabling reliable interoperability across authoring tools, analysis platforms, and downstream systems
• Promoting the use of BCF as an open communication layer for issues, coordination workflows, and multidisciplinary design feedback
• Advocating for COBie as a structured handover and asset-information schema, improving the fidelity and usability of data delivered into operations
• Helping align UK stakeholders—government, industry, academia—around openBIM governance, open-data principles, and standards-based digital delivery
• Engaging with the global buildingSMART community to support collective, community-driven stewardship of the standards
• This period reinforced a core belief: open standards are not just technical artifacts—they are social infrastructure, enabling trust, transparency, and large-scale collaborative capability across entire industries. The lessons from buildingSMART continue to inform my work on open ecosystems, interoperable digital infrastructure, and movement-led transformation.

May 2002 – Sep 2002 · 4 mos · Isle of Wight, United Kingdom & Vassiliki, Greece

• Spent some time remotely whilst setting up a software business (Asite) and pursuing my Yachtmaster Ocean qualification from the Royal Yachting Association, sailing in the Solent off the south coast of England, several channel passages, sailing in the Med from Vassiliki, Greece, and culminating in an Atlantic crossing from Bordeaux, France to Annapolis, Maryland via the Azores and a serious bust-up with mother nature when Hurricane Gustav found our boat several hundred miles north of Bermuda! I recommend it to anyone. :)

Oct 2000 – Feb 2002 · 1 yr 4 mos · Rugby, United Kingdom

• Rugby, United Kingdom
• I was responsible for Bidcom UK product development and for the development of systems integration plans for our enterprise clients. Our two primary product streams were web-based project collaboration software and a commodities procurement application offering financial services in partnership with the Royal Bank of Scotland.
• We pioneered a "One-To-One-To-Many (1:1:Many)" systems integration approach which enabled us to connect up supply chain partners once to a central internet-based hub (Internet Service Bus) which then connected them to many customers and suppliers without any further integration requirement.
• We sold the business to Citadon, Inc. (based in San Francisco) and exited in 2002.

Apr 2000 – Oct 2000 · 6 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

• New York, New York
• Senior technology manager of the global projects of this web development and design consultancy with operations in Paris and New York targeting the media, publishing, fashion and retail industries.

Nov 1998 – Apr 2000 · 1 yr 5 mos · Greater Boston Area

• Boston, Massachusetts
• Member of KPMG's Real Estate Industry software-consulting practice, delivering technical architecture and business systems strategies to the Corporate Real Estate and Property industries, and custom application development to major investment banks in the mortgage-backed securities space.

Mar 1998 – Oct 1998 · 7 mos · Paris, France

• Responsible for delivery of web-based application development projects for this French web development consulting firm.

Jun 1997 – Feb 1998 · 8 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

• New York, NY
• Product management of a web-based storage and commerce system for stock digital art.