
My early career includes defending the DMZ in South Korea, airdrops to Bosnian safe havens in 1995, leading a Fortune 500's first agile software project followed by portfolio planning & governance for ANZ Bank Transactive Asia Strategic Program of RBS & ABM AMRO acquisition.
What I offer

Startup Advisory - “Crossing the Valley of Death”
I help early stage startups survive where most fail by connecting strategy to execution between funding rounds, from MVP launch to sales.
Covering financial forecasts & monetization models, product development practices, team growth strategies, and investor readiness.

Scaleup advisory
Coaching and advising high-growth startup Founders with rapidly expanding teams (5x-20x) to scale up operations and product development flows. Clarity and alignment strategic objectives and creating highest value outcomes is crucial as new team members settle take on company culture and practices

Innovation Strategy & Governance Advisory
Helping executives shape the way investments in software development are funded, governed, and measured so that high-performing teams can deliver innovative solutions with faster time-to-market that create highest value economic outcomes.

Insights on Economics of Innovation
Economics of Innovation and pace of change is disruptive to traditional methods of measuring value and performance
I explore the Global Enterprise Value (GEV) divergence between traditional and Tech/Digital Native companies & how leaders perceive value of investments in software technology
Experiences

Co-Founder and Head of Scalability
A new way for people to discover and "Shop Local Anywhere" with independent retailers whether they have online businesses, market kiosks, or brick-and-mortar shops on...or off the High Streets.

Enterprise Agility & Digital Transformation Consultant - various UK
Coaching and Consulting for Executives, Portfolio, Technology Finance and HR leaders to assess and optimize the ability to innovate, learn and change direction at a rapid pace within their teams and across organizational silos.

CEO & COO Advisor - Swoop Funding
Advisor to CEO and COO co-founders on optimizing practices for 10x rapid team scale up funded by £5M Banking Competition Remedies (BCR) grant.

Transactive Asia Strategic Program Manager - ANZ Bank
Helped create high agility portfolio framework for AUD $180M program that de-risked and accelerated pace of Cash Management software development flow and integration with RBS and ABM AMRO aquisitions across 16 Indo-Pacific countries.

1st Agile Program Manager - H&R Block USA
My first experience with Agile ways of working and the challenges adapting traditional strategic planning, budgeting, governance and financial practices when I led

20 year US military veteran
First decade with US Army ranging from Intelligence, Security and Reconnaissance in scout platoons, in to intel ops in 101st Air Assault Division and with US Forces Korea (2nd ID). The next decade in US Air Force with Security Forces on multiple deployments to European Theater.