Biography

I am a seasoned business leader and technologist with over 25 years of experience spanning start-ups, enterprises, and the public sector. Beginning my career as a software engineer and working in nearly every area of IT, I moved into product development, business development, professional services, and Board advisory roles. Currently, I serve as the Head of Global Training at Amazon Web Services (AWS), leading the global team responsible for designing, piloting, and scaling sales enablement programmes for one of the world’s largest technology sales forces.

My expertise lies at the intersection of technology and business transformation, with deep knowledge in IT transformation, cloud migration and modernisation, data strategy, artificial intelligence, and data science. This unique blend of technical acumen and business savvy allows me to bridge the gap between complex technological concepts and tangible business outcomes.

Over the past decade, including my time at AWS, I have worked as an executive advisor and coach, breaking down barriers and removing friction to organisational transformation using the cloud. I have been instrumental in developing key frameworks and methodologies that guide organisations through their cloud adoption journey, including the Business Case Accelerator (BCA), Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF), Migration Readiness Assessment (MRA), Cloud Value Framework (CVF), and most recently, the AI Stages of Adoption (AISA).

Prior to AWS I worked with well-known global brands including Coca-Cola, Gulf Oil, and Aston Villa Football Club delivering digital and IT transformation; directing the delivery of over 100 transformation projects of varying sizes, including very small digital pure-play projects, through to complex business change projects.

Over the past 10 years (including whilst at AWS), I have worked as an executive advisor and coach; breaking down barriers and removing friction to organisational transformation using the cloud. During my career, I have invented, built, and brought to market technology services, commercial models, and customer engagement programmes.

A true change agent, with a reputation for extensive vision, drive, and aptitude, I work with Boards and executive stakeholders to help them drive increased revenues, profit, and margin; enter new markets, develop new product lines, and disrupt the disruptors; delight and excite their customers; drive operational excellence across their organisations; and strive to address environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns and responsibly change their business for the better.

I engage with enterprise leaders to define strategies for innovation, adoption, migration, and modernisation on the AWS cloud. My work is crucial in helping companies realise their full potential through technology adoption, driving new revenues, entering new markets, and defining new product categories.

Experience as a Board Director

I am an independently minded Chartered Director (elected 2006), and Fellow of the Institute of Directors in the United Kingdom. I have held executive and non-executive positions on the Boards of UK companies, bringing practical knowledge of organizational transformation through technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), data science, and the cloud to those positions.

I have worked with businesses in the Airline, Consumer Services, Financial Services, Retail, Media, Publishing & Entertainment, Manufacturing, Business Services, Oil & Gas, FMCG and Logistics industries; leading those organisations in the reinvention and transformation of their businesses.

My boardroom experience allows me to communicate effectively with C-suite executives and drive change at the highest levels of organisations. I specialise in business and organisational transformation, people management, and corporate governance.

Amazon, AWS and Me

I joined AWS in 2015 and have held various positions, including roles in Professional Services, Business Development, and Field Sales. Currently, I am Head of Global Training. My globally-located team of trainers, coaches, and coordinators enables our world-wide field sellers to articulate the AWS value proposition to customer c-level and line-of-business (LOB) leaders.

I am a co-author of Executive Foundation and Executive Acumen: Generative AI, two programs which have scaled globally to our field-sellers. Working cross-functionally in AWS, I collaborate with various teams to build thought leadership and programs that drive top-down, c-level-led business change through the adoption of the AWS cloud.

Working cross-functionally in AWS, with the AWS CFO Programs, Cloud Economics, Global Executive Marketing, Executive Summit, Enterprise Transformation, Migration Acceleration Program, Enterprise Strategist, and Press and Analyst Relations teams, I work with them to build thought leadership, and programs which drive top-down, c-level-led business change through the adoption of the AWS cloud.

Personal Biography

I hold a BSc (Hons) in Software Engineering and am a Data Science Alumnus of the London School of Economics. I speak regularly at the London School of Economics on their Data Science and AI for Executives program, sharing insights on harnessing AI for organisational transformation. I live in the UK and hold dual UK and Cypriot (EU) citizenship.