I work with leaders who are accountable for AI decisions they did not personally build, but must still explain, defend, and own.

Over the past three decades, I have worked at the intersection of technology, risk, and leadership; from military operations and national infrastructure to enterprise digital transformation. Across every environment, one lesson has remained consistent: when complex systems fail, the root cause is rarely technical. It is almost always a failure of leadership clarity, accountability, or trust.

I am an entrepreneur specialising in AI leadership, governance, and decision-making. I am the founder of Velinor, a firm focused on helping organisations design, deploy, and lead AI systems that are reliable, resilient, and responsible. My work centres on translating technical complexity into leadership-level clarity, so decision-makers can act with confidence under scrutiny.

My background spans defence, government, and enterprise, where the cost of ambiguity is high and accountability cannot be outsourced. This includes:

• Building the British Army’s first cyber protection team.

• Developing the Ministry of Defence’s big data and AI cyber protection platform, Cyber Mission Data.

• Creating human–machine teaming platforms focused on cyber vulnerability and decision support.

• Co-founding KAZE Consulting, a Defence management consultancy delivering transformation programmes for large government organisations.

These roles were not about technology. They were about enabling leaders to make decisions in environments where consequences were real, time-critical, and often irreversible.