London, England, United Kingdom
Trinity College, Cambridge Law graduate | Founder and CEO of Safe Sign Technologies, acquired by Thomson Reuters in August 2024 | Senior Director, Thomson Reuters Labs | Investor | A&O Shearman-qualified lawyer | Founder and Editor of CJLPA, international academic journal | Chief Executive of Urban Development Reform Organisation
Also: Senior Director, Thomson Reuters Labs; Legal Lead for Thomson Reuters Foundational Machine Learning Research; Head of Data Group for TR Foundational Research. (Resulting from the acquisition of Safe Sign Technologies by Thomson Reuters.)
Founded and led to acquisition a frontier AI start-up developing proprietary LLMs for the Legal Domain, alongside Training Contract at A&O Shearman. Created a world-leading, 30-strong team of Cambridge, Harvard and MIT AI scientists and Law Professors. Sold to the Canadian-American mediatech conglomerate Thomson Reuters for an undisclosed amount, in an industry-first market event, as a key milestone of TR’s $8bn AI acquisition strategy.
Founded and currently lead an international academic journal based at the University of Cambridge. Contributors regularly include Supreme Court Judges, Nobel Laureates, Members of Parliament, leading lawyers and artists, and directors of national cultural institutions.
Founded and currently lead a group of over 30 lawyers and researchers who protect the architectural heritage and social fabric of UK cities from damaging development proposals, while showing a better way forward for urban development.