About me
I'm a serial founder with technology and commercial expertise. I've led and advised multiple startups and raised pre-seed & seed from local & international VC. I've got experience across dev, design, product iteration, sales, finance & investment.
Opportunities I'm looking for
- Being a technical co-founder in a bootstrapped or venture tech startup.
- Being a fractional CTO for a startup. Typical mandates are to get the MVP built or to "fix" delivery problems.
- Being a strategic adviser to a seed or pre-seed tech startup. This might be your own startup or a portfolio company (e.g. Operator Hours as part of a VC's value-add).
- Being a technology adviser to help you understand and navigate emerging technologies. For startups or non-startups.
- Partnering with you in a non-tech business. Hit me up - I'm always interested!
Find out more about hiring me
Are we a fit?
People with domain expertise and/or backgrounds in demand generation are a good fit for my skills.
For my part I have the technical and commercial background to steer an early stage tech business through the creation of a technology product and the startup experience to know that building software is not usually the critical part of that journey.
I’m action-oriented, a systems-thinker and able to come up with high quality insight or decisions quickly.
My background
I’m a software engineer by trade. I worked for a multinational tech firm in software engineering, finance and then sales before becoming an independent entrepreneur and investor 15 years ago. My USP is my dual expertise in technology and commerce.
I founded ran and sold a web/mobile dev agency.
I've invested in and advised 3 tech startups with ongoing involvement in the last two, including a director/co-founder role. I've helped them secure multi-million investment rounds and 7 figure deals.
I was sole founder of a tech startup that raised £1M in funding.
I do fractional CTO and advisory work via direct relationships with startups and via Operator Hours for a VC firm.
What's important to me
I highly value honesty. I believe you can be successful by being a decent human who doesn't step on others to get ahead. I also think it is great to get rich from your hard work - I’m not on a socialism quest. I value people who are hard working, intelligent and open to looking for the right answer to hard problems.
My personal motto is you miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
I’ve got a wife, 3 kids and a dog so a lot of outside work time is family activities. My hobby is keeping on top of tech trends and tinkering with technology - coding, design, language models at the moment. In the past I was a tech podcaster. I like video games in my downtime.
Contact me
Contact me about any of the opportunities I'm looking for. Don't cold contact me about investment, recruitment or to sell me something.