Summary
Systems engineer (PhD, Strathclyde) who chairs the W3C AI Knowledge Representation Community Group with a career in business intelligence analysis: daily intelligence feeds licensed to Dow Jones Factiva and in-depth briefings for senior executives. Builds solo with AI tools: reports, decision-support apps, ontologies and specifications shipped in 2026, each aimed at people who must answer for how AI behaves in their organisation.
Ventures
Agent compliance and interoperabilityreport on sale, tools live
Compliance intelligence for firms deploying AI agents: the Global AI Regulatory Environment briefing (on sale), a cross-framework regulatory crosswalk and a decision-support tool, with a self-assessment and checklist app in design.
Voice agents for regulated firmsresearch and report in draft
Buyer-side intelligence on voice AI vendors for banks, insurers and healthcare: a report covering about thirty vendors and an interactive vendor map, alongside a published feed series on the sector.
VASE wearable companionspecification and angel deck
A sculptural pendant giving a foundation-model assistant a voice on the body, phased from a voice-only device to camera and eyepiece versions; manufacturing partners shortlisted.
Track record
- Business intelligence: daily intelligence feeds on AI, finance and regulation, licensed to Dow Jones Factiva, and in-depth executive briefings.
- W3C: chair of the AI Knowledge Representation CG; keynote and preview feed for the W3C/GS1 workshop on e-commerce for humans and AI agents, 2026.
- Standards and research: contributor to IEEE P7003 on algorithmic bias; publications in Brain Informatics (Springer LNCS) and IEEE venues (ORCID); Ecommerce AI Agent Ontology published with a DOI.
- Consulting: high-profile advisory assignments; expert with Cutter Consortium (now part of Arthur D. Little); creator of the Joint Optimization Metamodel and the Knowledge Audit Framework.
- Journalism: Science and Technology Correspondent in London for major publications then owned by Pearson.
- Teaching: faculty posts in the UK, Thailand and India, including IIT Mandi, and a course at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden; now teaches online.
- Entrepreneurship: ran the Sustainable Entrepreneurship initiative, Edinburgh and San Francisco, 2012; participant in the Stanford Asia Forum in Mumbai with Larry Diamond and Vivek Srinivasan.
- Right livelihood: researches and writes on right livelihood and mindful technology, e.g. Buddhistdoor Global.
- Mentoring: mentor with Women in Neurotech, a global community.
Working method
Structured analysis and design, knowledge modelling and verification against primary sources. Ships with AI coding and research agents, deploying on Vercel and GitHub.
Education
PhD, Systems Engineering, University of Strathclyde · MSc, Information Systems, University of Kent · BA, International Business and Modern Languages, South Bank University.
Languages: English and Italian (bilingual); German and Spanish (fluent); Mandarin (beginner).