Experience

Insight SRI Ltd.

• Chief Executive Officer

  • Aug 2002 - Present

  My own small firm providing consulting and investment services in tech startups, research ventures, and new-business launch. My recent focus has been on 'project' work, often linked to the creation of new startups in FinTech (ThirdWave), renewable energy (Bell Blade), and aerodynamics (Ptero). Consulting clients have included NASA, Intel, BAE Systems, Qinetiq, MV Agusta Motorcycles, Deutsche Bank, Accenture, the FAA, and the US Department of Defense. Further back. Work here also includes several engagement as C-level interim executive.



Maple Associates & Landings Development Associates

• Partner

  • 2000 - Present

  Minority partner in a New York City commercial real estate venture. Own and manage a string of retail storefronts and their adjacent parking lot . Minority partner in a New York City commercial real estate venture. Own and manage a string of retail storefronts and their adjacent parking lot .



Synergis Technologies

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Interim Chief Executive

  • Jan 2006 - Oct 2006

  Youngest ever CEO in European venture capital (ref: Libraries House).An interim posting to set-up and run a new venture capital firm. Focused on seed and early-stage capital investments, I oversaw the offshore fund structure (>$100M) and an annual operating budget (~$10M) creating an investment pipeline designed to achieve public listing in excess of $300M within three years. The firm was named "Investment partner of choice” by the UK Ministry of Defence and we closed collaboration deals with UK government labs, Oxford, Cambridge and other leading universities.



Accenture

• Ireland
• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Manager

  • Apr 1999 - Aug 2002

  After a learning period in telecoms I took the initiative to reinvent Accenture’s approach to the UK Aerospace & Defense market. I am credited with taking them, more or less single handedly, from a single $50K per year project into what is now a >$500M pa business. Key to this growth: in my last year at the firm I single-handedly opened and then helped to negotiate and win what was at the time Accenture’s second largest IT outsource contract in Europe ($0.5 Billion). Offered a position as ‘Director, UK Aerospace & Defense’ I left to form Insight SRI instead.



NTL (now Virgin Media)

• Head of Internet (interim division COO)

  • Jan 2001 - Sep 2001

  An interim operations position as 'Head of Internet' for cable-TV firm NTL, the #2 UK operator with 15,000 employees and $3.4Bn in revenue. Work included migration of 600K customers from free to paid dial-up internet, and assisting in the launch of the world’s first broadband internet service through the cable TV box (rather than using a separate modem). Assignment via Accenture. NTL (now Virgin Media) is the UK equivalent of Comcast. An interim operations position as 'Head of Internet' for cable-TV firm NTL, the #2 UK operator with 15,000 employees and $3.4Bn in revenue. Work included migration of 600K customers from free to paid dial-up internet, and assisting in the launch of the world’s first broadband internet service through the cable TV box (rather than using a separate modem). Assignment via Accenture. NTL (now Virgin Media) is the UK equivalent of Comcast.



Los Alamos National Laboratory

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Staff (Nuclear Physics)

  • May 1992 - Feb 1997

  • R&D 100 Award nomination • DOE 'Excellence' citation• Projects on covers of Physics Today and Laser Focus World (LIDAR)• Member of the Technology Cost Assessment Program, evaluating business plans and government technology investments • R&D 100 Award nomination • DOE 'Excellence' citation• Projects on covers of Physics Today and Laser Focus World (LIDAR)• Member of the Technology Cost Assessment Program, evaluating business plans and government technology investments