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About · A little about me

I’ve never been particularly interested in staying in one lane.

01Learning how businesses work

I started my career in finance, learning how businesses really work: the numbers, the decisions, the people behind them and what it takes to keep everything moving.

I joined Hastings Direct as a FTSE 250 insurer and stayed through its move into private ownership.

Over the next decade, that curiosity took me on to a venture-backed SaaS business, through investment management and into the commercial office of a private equity-backed wealth manager.

02Between functions

Different industries, different challenges, different stages of growth. But a common thread: I’ve always gravitated towards the work that sits between functions, where the answer isn’t obvious and someone needs to connect the dots.

I’ve worked alongside CFOs, commercial leaders, executives and founders. I’ve supported fundraising, helped navigate acquisitions, built executive reporting systems, translated commercial strategies into delivery plans and worked on everything from regulatory programmes to growth initiatives.

That includes the line between commercial and technical. I’m at home working with CTOs, engineers and technical founders: I build AI tools myself, so I understand enough of how things are made to ask the right questions, and I can translate commercial goals into technical priorities and back again.

03The other side of the table

More recently, I’ve found myself increasingly drawn to the other side of the table: building.

I co-founded Turnout, a sports and wellness community platform that connects clubs and people in a fragmented market, and have taken it from an idea through company formation and product development into testing. I lead its go-to-market, monetisation and product and UX, and came up with the concept for Poppy, our AI agent, which supports the coordination behind it all. Our fractional CTO builds it; I work with him to channel the vision into the product.

I’ve also worked fractionally with founders. At a seed-stage AI venture I’m part of the founding growth team, leading go-to-market. At Circus Capital, I work alongside the Principal as a fractional Chief of Staff, across strategic priorities, stakeholder communications, research and internal execution.

Across all of it, I build and experiment with agents, automations and reporting systems that make work simpler, faster and more intelligent.

Career timeline

  1. 2026 to presentTurnout (Good Turnout Ltd)Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer
  2. 2026 to presentSeed-stage AI start-up (stealth)Founding growth team, part time
  3. 2025 to presentCircus CapitalChief of Staff (fractional)
  4. 2024 to presentCanaccord Genuity Wealth ManagementBusiness Initiatives Lead, Commercial Office · Chief of Staff remit to the Group CCO
  5. 2022 to 2024RBC Brewin DolphinAssociate, Funds (Associate Director cover)
  6. 2022PaddleManagement Accountant, FP&A
  7. 2016 to 2022Hastings DirectA variety of foundational roles in finance, including commercial finance, investor relations, workforce planning and procurement

Education & qualifications

  • BSc Economics & Management, University of London (LSE academic direction), part time, 2026 to present
  • Investment Management Certificate, CISI Level 4
  • ACCA, Practical Experience Requirement complete
  • Anthropic Academy, 2026: Claude Code in Action; Building Effective Human-Agent Teams; AI Fluency

What connects all of it

“A strategy is only interesting to me if someone is prepared to execute it.”

What connects all of it is curiosity, ownership and a genuine enjoyment of making things happen. I like understanding the big picture, but I’m equally happy getting into the detail.

Beyond the boardroom

And outside work?

I’m interested in art, economics, technology, travel, music, wellness and just about anything that teaches me something new.

  • Art & collecting
  • Reading & learning
  • AI & experimentation
  • Movement & wellness
  • Travel & culture

I’m always looking for interesting people to learn from, ideas to explore and things worth building.

Contact

Have something interesting in mind?

I’m always interested in meeting ambitious founders, thoughtful operators and people building interesting things.

Whether it’s a business challenge, a collaboration or simply a conversation, I’d love to hear from you.