United Kingdom
Scaled and transformed technology organisations as CTO / VP Engineering across four billion-dollar companies - Voy, Hopin, Charlotte Tilbury and THG - backed by investors including Sequoia, a16z, Accel, Balderton, KKR, etc Deep technical leadership across complex, high-scale systems spanning e-commerce, real-time video, ad serving, healthtech, mobile SDKs, data platforms and cloud infrastructure. Built and led engineering, product, design, data science and AI organisations through greenfield builds, hypergrowth and turnaround, scaling teams from 0→350+ FTE.
Left my role at Voy to go deep in AI, the biggest platform shift since the internet. Building, learning and experimenting across models, agents and AI-native software engineering.
Voy is one of the UK’s largest digital health platforms spanning preventative care, weight loss, hormone replacement and dermatology, backed by Felix Capital and Cherry Ventures. Rebuilt and scaled Voy’s Product, Design and Engineering organisation from 40→120 FTE and led major platform and product expansion across consumer health. Delivered AI-powered consumer and operational products, expanded weight loss into a daily-use platform, and improved engineering velocity, retention and operational efficiency.
Prehendo was an ad tech company for retailer-owned media inventory. Raised $1.5M from institutional investors, recruited the founding team, shipped the core product, and secured early customer traction. While ultimately unsuccessful as a venture outcome, built deep operating muscle in fundraising, enterprise sales, product-market fit discovery, and hands-on building.
Virtual events platform backed by a16z, Accel and IVP. Reached a peak valuation of $7.8bn before exiting to RingCentral and Bending Spoons. Joined as Hopin’s first VP Engineering during hypergrowth to scale the platform & team from 35 FTE and was later promoted to GM with full P&L ownership across Product, Design and Engineering. Led product launches, M&A and platform scaling as Hopin expanded from virtual events into hybrid and onsite experiences, supporting growth from ~$5M to $100M+ ARR across a combined ~370 FTE organisation.
Led Android, iOS and Unity SDK teams for Audience Network, a multi-billion-dollar ads business for 3rd party monetisation.