What I build

The operator, not the founder.

I join deep tech companies early and build everything that isn’t the science. The contracts, the money, the governance, the people. So the research has a company around it.

A decade in the office of the CEO at US technology companies, then the same work in UK deep tech, where the science sits further from revenue and the operating gap is wider. The job doesn’t change much: take a company that can do something remarkable and make it one that can sign a contract, survive diligence, and be governed.

2025 – present · London · Seed stage

Vaire Computing

Vaire is a fabless semiconductor company designing chips that recover and reuse energy instead of releasing it as heat. I run everything that isn’t the physics: the company’s first commercial contracts, the vendor terms that decide how long the design team gets to keep working, an AI-assisted finance function, and the reporting and governance a Series A gets judged on.

  1. Vaire, Our people. Lists me as Interim COO.2
  2. IEEE Spectrum on reversible computing.
  3. Communications of the ACM: The Future Is Reversible.
  4. Jon Peddie Research: Vaire bets on reversible chips.

2024 – 2025 · London · Seed to Series A

Neurolabs

Neurolabs teaches computers to recognise products on a shelf, training its models on synthetic data rather than photographs. I joined as Head of Operations and left as COO. I built the operating side of the company across the UK and US: hiring, finance, legal and compliance, the business review and All Hands cadence. I carried the Series A through diligence and the handoffs after close, and delivered the first enterprise contract before standing up Customer Success with the CTO.

  1. Sifted 100: UK & Ireland (2025). Neurolabs ranked 16th of 100, and first among the deep tech companies on the list.1
  2. Tech.eu on the Series A, April 2025. It closed during my tenure.

2016 – 2024 · San Francisco, London

Office of the CEO

GRAIL, through a Series B, an acquisition, and three CEOs. Mapbox, through a Series D, an SPV built with outside counsel, and a joint venture with SoftBank. Duffel, through Series A to Series B, its first paid acquisition strategy, and the CEO’s parental leave. Alongside those, four years of transaction work with a US law firm and a family office: S-4 filings, disclosures, diligence, and a founder liquidity event. Full history and dates on LinkedIn.

In progress

Qualifying as a UK lawyer

Sitting the SQE. Not a change of career. Most of what actually breaks a company at this stage is commercial, governance, or cross-border, and I would rather read the documents myself than wait to be told what they say. SQE1 results in September 2026.

Mine, not independent

The method

Three pieces on how I actually operate, for anyone deciding whether the record above reflects a way of working or a run of luck.

  1. My Blueprint. The conditions I need to do this work, and what I owe other people in return.
  2. Why Companies Fail. Five ways companies lose contact with reality, and five signs the correction is coming too late.
  3. My Principles. What matters, what is true, and how to show up.

Notes on the evidence

  1. The Sifted ranking is Neurolabs’ achievement, not mine. Sifted 100: UK & Ireland (2025) ranks 100 companies by two-year revenue CAGR. Neurolabs placed 16th overall and was the highest-ranked company in Sifted’s Deeptech category. I was Head of Operations and then COO across the period the ranking covers. Checked 30 August 2026. Back
  2. The Vaire articles are about the technology, not about me. They are here so the work can be judged on what the company is actually attempting. The company page is the link that names my role. Checked 30 August 2026. Back
  3. Commercial and financial specifics are left off this page on purpose. Contract values, burn, revenue and customer names belong to the companies, not to me. Available on request where they are mine to share.
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