Yorkshire-based · working across the UK
I help founders, boards and senior leaders think clearly when the answer isn’t obvious — as an executive coach, non-executive director and investor.
Coach · NED · Investor
The useful bit
The job can be lonely. Everyone brings an answer, an agenda or a PowerPoint. I bring questions, pattern recognition and the willingness to say when something doesn’t hold up.
Good work should show up in the next decision, the next board meeting and what happens on Tuesday morning. Otherwise, we’ve merely had an interesting chat.
How I help
For founders, chief executives and senior leaders carrying decisions that don’t fit neatly into a framework.
Confidential. Practical. No motivational wallpaper.
Independent challenge for growing organisations that need the board to sharpen decisions, not merely admire the papers.
Firm on the issue. Fair with the person.
I invest selectively in technology and consumer businesses, then stay close enough to be useful and far enough away to let the founders lead.
Capital helps. Clear thinking usually helps first.
Experience
I started in the Royal Signals, then built a career across managed services, cloud, data and higher education technology. I co-founded Solutionpath as CTO, later became CEO, and led the business through its acquisition by Kortext in 2022.
“I’ve been on the side of the table where advice has to survive payroll, customers and Tuesday morning.”
Current work
The relationship differs: founder, NED, investor, company secretary or adviser. A single label would be tidy. It would also be wrong.
NED & Investor
NeuroBridge helps employers turn neuroinclusion from policy and awareness into practical support, stronger manager capability and evidence they can use.
Its platform, The Bridge, is designed around the gap organisations often miss: what work actually feels like for people on an ordinary Tuesday morning.
Visit NeuroBridge
Non-Executive Director
Plato provides curriculum-aligned AI support within university learning environments, giving students timely academic help and staff clearer evidence of where cohorts are struggling.
My board focus includes responsible adoption, institutional scale, commercial discipline and governance.
Visit Plato Academic
Company and strategic support for a York-based, nurse-led clinic specialising in natural aesthetics and advanced skin health.
Visit The York Skin Clinic
Strategic and company support for a York interior design business working with homeowners, estate agents and properties being prepared for sale.
Visit Meredith Frances InteriorsBuilt & exited
I co-founded Solutionpath as CTO, later became CEO and led the business through its acquisition by Kortext in 2022.
Visit Kortext
York Mind · Trustee
Charity governance, kept separate from the company portfolio.
Recent writing
I write about neuroinclusion, leadership, governance and the gap between what organisations say and what people actually experience at work. A selection of recent pieces is below; the writing page has more by subject.
Follow my writing on LinkedInA personal examination of belonging, autistic identity and the need to question claims without dismissing people.
Read on LinkedInA look at Zellis, NeuroBridge and what practical support at organisational scale asks of managers.
Read on LinkedInA viral obituary for Adobe meets its actual numbers. The interesting question is what AI changes in software economics.
Read on LinkedInA report supports needs-led help and measurable outcomes. What will organisations build to make those principles real?
Read on LinkedInA board that says neuroinclusion matters should know who owns it, whether it works and what happens when it does not.
Read on LinkedInThe opening newsletter edition revisits five stories and asks what the evidence changes on Tuesday morning.
Read on LinkedInThe hard part is making support easy to reach, consistent and useful once the policy meets a real workplace.
Read on LinkedInA close look at where sound genetic evidence ends and broader claims about diagnosis and identity begin.
Read on LinkedInMore on workplace practice, boards, AI and the people behind the data.
Browse selected writingHow I work
Separate fact, inference and organisational folklore.
Ask the question that survives a serious board meeting.
Keep ownership with the person who has to lead.
Judge the work by what changes in practice.
A conversation, not a funnel
If you’re looking for a coach, an independent board voice or an investor who has actually operated a business, let’s see whether I’m useful.