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Technology Strategy & Leadership

The most challenging technology problems require both expertise and experience. As a Consulting CTO...

Data Communication & Visualisation

A picture paints a thousand words, and grants visceral access to the insights buried in gigabytes of data...

Data Science & AI

Data is the oil of the 21st century: if you know where to sink your well...

Portfolio

Selected CV

Oxford Language Technologies February 2023 - Present

Founder and CEO. Built the revolutionary language learning app Omniloquent Language Primer.

Winton Capital Management August 2006 - August 2020, London

Research-based Systematic Investment Management Company || Winton is a multi-strategy fund, trading 7500 global equites, all liquid futures markets, bonds, FX and interest rate swaps || Winton is a global business supported from 7 offices, 4 datacenters, AWS and Azure
As Chief Technology Officer I was responsible for developing and implementing a technology strategy which delivered the best possible investment returns to our clients. The Technology division was the single largest unit within Winton, with around 60 engineers.
Before becoming CTO, I spent many years as Head of Special Projects, applying my unique skills across the entire business.
Prior to that, I specialised in Tick Data and Execution, developing the technology to enable research into, and trading of, intraday and latency dependent signals across futures, equites & FX.

Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester April 2002 - August 2006, Rochester, NY, USA

I designed and built software to allow researchers to efficiently design, run and analyse real-time cognitive experiments, using eye trackers, FMRI machines and optical brain imaging scanners.

E-SPIRIT Interactive September 2000 - August 2001, London

Advertising and Web Design Agency
As Lead Developer I was responsible all front and back-end website development.
Jazz Pianist, Accompanist, Conductor, Lindy Hopper, Patron of English National Opera, along with various young artist schemes.