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Technology leadership.
Built for scale.

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Leadership · Product · Architecture · M&A

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01 / EXPERTISE

Technology. Product.
People.

I'm Adam. I work where technology, people and business decisions meet.

I help established organisations reshape teams, set product direction and turn complex technology into business outcomes.

Established technology businesses and larger groups.
Public-sector organisations.
Family offices, VC firms and investment teams.

Lead &
restructure.

CTO leadership and organisational change. Align management, distributed teams and delivery around a clear direction.

Leadership / Organisation / GrowthEXPLORE THE WORKNational identity & integration

Shape the
product.

Product strategy, ownership and management. Connect business priorities to a focused roadmap, clear decisions and delivery.

Product / Priorities / ExecutionEXPLORE THE WORKMerchant risk governance

Architect &
transform.

Architecture and technical judgment for complex systems. From software platforms to secure devices, make the right trade-offs.

Software / Hardware / SecurityEXPLORE THE WORKPlatform modernisation

Assess &
advise.

Technical due diligence, M&A and portfolio support. Help leaders and investment teams understand risk and strengthen execution.

M&A / Investment / StrategyEXPLORE THE WORKBuilding & integrating a business

02 / SELECTED IMPACT

Complexity.
Under control.

100+Engineers led

GlobalOrganisations restructured

National scaleIdentity infrastructure

Leadership across borders.

Led engineering organisations of more than 100 people and restructured large organisations with international operations.

Management and technical leadership across the UK, US, Europe, China, Indonesia, Australia, India and Kenya.

Infrastructure at national scale.

Built and sold an identity technology business whose platform powers Indonesia's national government identity system.

Experience where architecture, security and reliable delivery have consequences far beyond a single organisation.

Beyond software.

Experience in secure mobile device architecture for government use, combining hardware, software and encrypted communications.

A perspective that connects the device, the platform and the people who depend on them.

SELECTED WORK

The thinking.
The work. The impact.

A closer look at the decisions, systems and organisations behind the work.

Identity / Leadership / M&A

Identity infrastructure. Organised for national scale.

Platform development and post-acquisition restructuring

Built an enterprise identity-verification business that was acquired by a technology group. Following the acquisition, I led a distributed engineering organisation of more than 100 people supporting national identity services, helping establish clearer product ownership and delivery discipline.

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Payments / Risk governance / Product

Merchant risk. Connected to evidence.

Implemented by payment service providers

A closer look

Designed and built a merchant-risk governance platform implemented by payment service providers. It connects onboarding declarations, risk decisions and monitoring controls through a traceable record of policies, approvals and evidence.

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Architecture / Modernisation / Product

Modernisation with a controlled path to change.

Discovery, architecture and migration design

A closer look

A revenue-critical pricing operation depended on a deeply embedded spreadsheet estate. I mapped the systems and knowledge behind it, then designed a staged migration with historical replay, parallel testing and rollback, giving leadership a practical basis for investment and delivery decisions.

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Hardware / Security / Product leadership

Security across the device and the organisation.

Delivery structure, security design and reference implementation

A closer look

For an established device manufacturer, I restructured distributed engineering delivery and translated carrier security requirements into an architecture and evidence plan. The work also covered secure-phone design and resilient communications, connecting product decisions with hardware, cloud systems and suppliers.

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Sovereign AI / Government / Implementation

Sovereign AI. From concept to implementation.

Implementation under way with government organisations

A closer look

Defined a sovereign AI product and programme now being implemented with government organisations. The work connects locally controlled analysis, traceable evidence and human approval with the architecture, product boundaries and delivery plan needed for sensitive environments.

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03 / SELECTED INVESTMENTS

Big ideas.
Real scale.

Investing since 2017.
Software, security and frontier technology.

Additional selected investments: Onebrief, Serve Robotics, Neurophos, Omni, Rescale, General Fusion, Motion, BeeHero, User Interviews, Dexory, Genesis Therapeutics, Xona, Guidewheel, Nivoda, Atropos Health and OpenSea.

BUILT FOR COMPLEXITY

The bigger the challenge,
the more the decisions matter.

Let's discuss your mandate

04 / LET'S TALK

What comes
next?

Tell me about the organisation,
the challenge and the scope of the work.

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Technology leadership.
Built for scale.

What could we
build together?

Behind the noise.
What matters.

Technology. Product.
People.

Lead &
restructure.

Shape the
product.

Architect &
transform.

Assess &
advise.

Complexity.
Under control.

Leadership across borders.

Infrastructure at national scale.

Beyond software.

The thinking.
The work. The impact.

Identity infrastructure. Organised for national scale.

Merchant risk. Connected to evidence.

Modernisation with a controlled path to change.

Security across the device and the organisation.

Sovereign AI. From concept to implementation.

Big ideas.
Real scale.

The bigger the challenge,
the more the decisions matter.

What comes
next?

Technology leadership.Built for scale.

What could webuild together?

Behind the noise.What matters.

Technology. Product.People.

Lead &restructure.

Shape theproduct.

Architect &transform.

Assess &advise.

Complexity.Under control.

Leadership across borders.

Infrastructure at national scale.

Beyond software.

The thinking.The work. The impact.

Identity infrastructure. Organised for national scale.

Merchant risk. Connected to evidence.

Modernisation with a controlled path to change.

Security across the device and the organisation.

Sovereign AI. From concept to implementation.

Big ideas.Real scale.

The bigger the challenge,the more the decisions matter.

What comesnext?

Technology leadership.
Built for scale.

What could we
build together?

Behind the noise.
What matters.

Technology. Product.
People.

Lead &
restructure.

Shape the
product.

Architect &
transform.

Assess &
advise.

Complexity.
Under control.

The thinking.
The work. The impact.

Big ideas.
Real scale.

The bigger the challenge,
the more the decisions matter.

What comes
next?