Jul 2025 – Present · 10 mos

Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• UK Finance - AI Policy Committee
• Bank of England - AI Consortium Elected Member
• CDO Magazine - Global Board Member
• Council Member, Next Generation Leadership Council, TheCityUK

Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• As the Group Head of AI within one of the UK’s largest financial institutions, I am establishing Britain’s most innovative and impactful AI team.
• Accountable for defining and delivering the Group’s AI vision, strategy, and implementation, enabling AI adoption across all Lloyds Banking Group business units.
• Head the AI Centre of Excellence, overseeing a team of 250 to 400+ specialists across London, Bristol, Hyderabad and Leeds, including Heads of Data Science, AI Strategy, AI Engineering, Business Intelligence, Behavioural Science, and Responsible AI.
• Lead external engagement on AI, including media relations, regulatory liaison, and collaboration with government stakeholders. Represent the Bank at Meta Open Loop, the Bank of England AI Consortium, and the UK Finance AI Committee.

Feb 2020 – Jan 2021 · 11 mos

• Growing the AWS professional services practice by turning the dial for our customers on data, analytics & AI in areas such as product, marketing, supply chain and forecasting.

Jan 2020 – Aug 2024 · 4 yrs 7 mos

• First generation Regional Head for Amazon’s Data and AI Strategy
• Focus: Financial Services, Banking and Consumer Retail
• Responsible for executing AI- and data-driven transformations across the region
• Led cross-functional teams of 120+ engineers, architects, data scientists and product owners
• Setting up CDO and AI functions, information platforms, data teams, and operating models that deliver value through agile experimentation.
• Building and scaling the business across Asia-Pacific, including South-east Asia and India.

Jan 2018 – Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Singapore

• I was a Director in Accenture’s Applied Intelligence group and the ASEAN head of Customer and Marketing Intelligence. Accenture has industry-leading capabilities in this field that use artificial intelligence, cloud and big data technologies to help organisations better understand and target their customers. My work involved working with iconic brands in banking and retail industries to lead cross functional teams of 100+ resources for execution of analytics-led transformations.

Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 · 3 yrs · Greater Sydney Area

• My focus at SAS was to assist CIOs/CDOs/CAOs/Heads of Data in realising business value from their IT infrastructure and data projects and investments. I also helped establish a new business internally within SAS based on the premise of analytics as a service.

Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 · 3 yrs · Greater Sydney Area

• Decision Science & Analytics was a start-up within Deloitte that focused on addressing the combination of analytics, strategy, process consulting and software implementation to design and build complex AI-ML solutions for large clients. As a founding member, I was involved in shaping our GTM offers, sales, business development and delivery of 2 strategic programs of work – one with ANZ Bank and other with Luxottica Retail.
• As a result of the success of Insight Solutions, the team was asked to take responsibility for the traditional Deloitte Analytics business (>Decision Science & Analytics) and further mature the Insight Solutions value proposition.

Jan 2007 – Jan 2012 · 5 yrs · Greater Sydney Area

• I worked across multiple industries on projects ranging from supply chain optimisation, customer & marketing analytics, information management strategy, data migration and data warehousing, for Australia's top tier clients.

Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 · 1 yr · Lancaster, United Kingdom

• I developed and enhanced standard predictive forecasting models using neural networks on time series data for media and consumer goods companies.

Jan 2004 – Jan 2007 · 3 yrs · Greater Sydney Area

• I investigated and applied machine learning techniques for the forecasting of seasonal time series. This work resulted in the tuning of neural network parameters leading to more accurate forecasts. The results of this work were presented at the International Symposium of Forecasters.

Jan 2003 – Jan 2005 · 2 yrs · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Acquired by @MorningstarAustralasia in 2019

Jan 2000 – Dec 2001 · 1 yr 11 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• I worked as a s/w engineer on multiple client projects.