Apr 2024 – Sep 2024 · 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

• Selected for EF’s startup Incubator programme to build a company from scratch with a co-founder. Access to leading advisors, pre-seed funding, and a network of top investors. Over 500 companies founded with a combined value of $10B+. Companies built at EF include Tractable (a computer vision unicorn), Cleo, Omnipresent, Aztec, Transcelestial, Airbank and many more.
• EF is backed by some of the world's best tech founders and company builders, including Patrick and John Collison (Stripe); Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Tom Blomfield (GoCardless and Monzo), Sara Clemens (Pandora and Twitch); Nat Friedman (GitHub); and Matt Mullenweg (Wordpress).

Sep 2022 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

Aug 2020 – Sep 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo · London, England, United Kingdom

• Seat 1: Banking and Leveraged Finance
• Seat 2: Private Equity
• Seat 3: Private Equity Secondment: Cinven
• Seat 4: Corporate Secondment: Swiss Re

Dec 2019 – Jan 2020 · 1 mo · London, United Kingdom

• Clifford Chance Applied Solutions is a start up that builds and sells disruptive legal technology products.
• I worked with the product and sales team alongside ex Clifford Chance lawyers and ex Thomson Reuters business development.
• I learnt about corporate intrapreneurship and new ways to deliver legal content.

Mar 2022 – Sep 2022 · 6 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

Sep 2021 – Mar 2022 · 6 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

Oct 2019 – Dec 2019 · 2 mos · London, United Kingdom

• H4 is building a digital platform for legal and financial documentation.
• I was part of a high growth product team that included ex JP Morgan bankers, ex Linklaters lawyers and ex Google engineers.
• I was lucky to get a great insight into how to make sure what we built matched up to users' priorities.

Jul 2019 – Aug 2019 · 1 mo · London, United Kingdom

• Cloudreach helps companies move IT systems to the cloud and was part of Blackstone's portfolio at the time.
• I worked with in house legal on a range of issues including corporate governance restructuring, risk assessment and mitigation, and the deployment of smart contracting services.

Nov 2018 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Auxilium Tuition provided world class tutors and educational consultancy to clients in London and China.
• Mike and I bootstrapped the company part-time alongside law school.
• We set up the website, accounting, CRM and tutor management software.
• We recruited over 300 applicants from top UK universities.
• We partnered with multiple Chinese education providers for online tuition, courses and presentations.
• We achieved just under £50k revenue for our first year and ultimately sold the business to a competitor.

Jul 2016 – Sep 2016 · 2 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Duff & Phelps is a leading corporate finance advisory firm.
• I learnt about financial modelling in Excel to provide portfolio valuations to private equity clients and supporting analysis for the sell side of a large oil and gas M&A transaction.

Jul 2016 – Jul 2016 · 0 mo · London, United Kingdom

• Intelligent Aid Essay Competition Winner 2016:
• Title: 'An ethical business culture can only be created with strong regulation’
• Shadowing lawyers in both the Banking and Finance and TMT practices

Sep 2013 – Feb 2014 · 5 mos · Denham, Buckinghamshire, England

• Martin-Baker is the world's leading manufacturer of ejection seats for aircraft and I joined as part of the Year in Industry scheme.
• I carried out the design, software analysis (using proprietary software) and testing of an explosive cartridge for the harness system on the seat for the Joint Strike Fighter program.
• I also built an atmospheric data calculator using C++ and carried out extensive humidity and temperature testing on pressure sensors.