Experience

Opagio Ltd

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Executive Officer

  • Nov 2020 - Present



Centaurify

• Estonia
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Strategic Advisor, Investor

  • Oct 2021 - Present



Gowan Consultancy

• United Kingdom
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Investor and Advisor, CEO and Founders

  • Jun 2020 - Present

  Investor, Growth Hacker, Advisor, Non-exec Board Member - strategy, product, technology and marketing. Focused on emerging trends and exponential growth opportunities with heavy focus on technology and science. I love to work with passionate, mission driven founding teams and pay forward some of the valuable and expensive lessons I've learned from 2 decades in high growth scale ups making complex services accessible with award winning platforms. Range from start-up to FTSE 250 in regulated fintech and health to nutrition, sport, property tech. With a great network of other experienced angel investors and advisors if Gowan Consultancy can't help I may know someone who can. If you need to bring some innovative ideas to your board or want to do a Growth Strategy Review get in touch. Show less



OCCAM DAO

• Switzerland
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Association Advisory Board, Founding Investor

  • Mar 2021 - Present

  The Occam Association (DAO) is a Cardano blockchain focused financial ecosystem with Occam Razer and Occam X. The Occam Razer platform helps projects aligned with the Cardano Community to launch. The upcoming Occam X is a DEX that will provide secondary trading. Working with the Cardano team, Blockchain VC's and private investors to launch and grow the next generation of DeFi disruptors. The Occam Association (DAO) is a Cardano blockchain focused financial ecosystem with Occam Razer and Occam X. The Occam Razer platform helps projects aligned with the Cardano Community to launch. The upcoming Occam X is a DEX that will provide secondary trading. Working with the Cardano team, Blockchain VC's and private investors to launch and grow the next generation of DeFi disruptors.



NGX (Nutri-Genetix)

• United Kingdom
• Wellness and Fitness Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Investor, Board Observer

  • Dec 2020 - Present

  Nutri-Genetix - revolutionary personalised nutrition for your genes. Focused on bringing the latest Nutri-genetics research to bring personalised nutrition that professional athletes take for granted to the masses. We are all unique - time for nutrition our body needs. A free DNA test and detailed analysis report with your first order helps consumers understand their bodies needs - mine prefers healthy fats to carbs. Nutri-Genetix - revolutionary personalised nutrition for your genes. Focused on bringing the latest Nutri-genetics research to bring personalised nutrition that professional athletes take for granted to the masses. We are all unique - time for nutrition our body needs. A free DNA test and detailed analysis report with your first order helps consumers understand their bodies needs - mine prefers healthy fats to carbs.



PensionBee

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Advisor, Investor

  • Jun 2015 - Present

  PensionBee is disrupting the UK pensions industry making online pensions easy for people to track and consolidate old pensions. London Fintech with £700m AUM, driving rapid growth through great product, UX and design, customer service and marketing. PensionBee is disrupting the UK pensions industry making online pensions easy for people to track and consolidate old pensions. London Fintech with £700m AUM, driving rapid growth through great product, UX and design, customer service and marketing.



Measure Protocol

• United Kingdom
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Advisor, Investor

  • Jun 2018 - Present

  Market research disruptor putting consumers in charge of their data, powered by the blockchain. Market research disruptor putting consumers in charge of their data, powered by the blockchain.



PlayersPic

• United Kingdom
• Spectator Sports
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder

  • May 2020 - Jan 2022

  Football social network. Football social network.



Currency.com

• Gibraltar
• Financial Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Co-Founder and CEO

  • Jun 2018 - Jun 2020



Capital.com

• Cyprus
• Financial Services
• 300 - 400 Employee

• CEO

  • Jan 2018 - Jun 2020

  Fintech trading company with award winning platforms with clients from 100 countries in 20+ languages. Mobile first with a strong focus on education through courses and Youtube videos. Post trade personalised insights powered by AI. 2500+ markets across FX, Indices, Equities, Commodities, Cryptos, ETF's, Futures and custom indices. Regulated by the FCA, CySEC and NBRB operating on a pan-european basis with passporting into the Middle East, Latam and Asia. PCI-DSS payments capabilities including Worldpay, ApplePay and GooglePay supported by RBS and Raiffeissen banks amongst others. 165 staff across 5 offices. Challenging our biggest competitors with mobile app and marketing distribution underpinned by great UX and design and focus on client centric USP's. Europes most innovative broker 2019, Europe's most transparent broker 2019, Best Mobile Trading Platform 2019. Show less



IG Group

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Chief Digital Experience Officer

  • Nov 2016 - Nov 2017

  I lead initiatives across all client facing touch points including digital marketing, website, mobile platforms, desktop platform and CRM. Providing a coherent connected strategy to put the customer at the centre of our product and service design.

• Head of IT Development

  • 2011 - Oct 2016

  I oversaw the development of the IT software used to drive the business.IG makes award winning trading platforms with native mobile apps that cover all devices alongside our web trading platform. Our trading platforms are designed to provide a low latency trading experience with a strong focus on excellent user experience, breadth of offering and quality of execution.IG's trading platforms integrate with a common set of RESTful services and streaming services providing a very scalable trading and research platform that underpins the Spread betting, CFD and Stockbroking services for IG's clients and white label partners. IG also runs an exchange in Chicago for derivative trading to US retail clients through the North American Derivatives Exchange (Nadex) a subsidiary of the group. IG offers in excess of 100,000 different markets for clients to trade in 10 different languages, regulated by 17 different regulators.IG uses leading technology and software development methodologies to maintain its competitive advantage with releases to production at least once a month. There is a significant investment in the platform, development processes and tooling, and development and training of our staff. We run a graduate recruitment programme for bright students who want to work in Finance with the latest technologies based in central London. In addition to London, IG has development centres in Bangalore, Eastern Europe, Chicago and Winchester. Show less

• Head Of Trading Development

  • Jun 2005 - Jun 2011

• Team Leader, Online Trading

  • Nov 2003 - Jun 2005

• Developer

  • Feb 2002 - Nov 2003



Cambridge Technology Partners

• Consultant

  • 2000 - 2002