Experience
From labs to leadership.
The short version: a technical career — labs, enterprise BI, data consultancy, infrastructure — that became company leadership. Today I run Education Host; the road there is why I can. LinkedIn holds the concise record; this is the story.
Current
Managing Director · Education Host
I manage Education Host as a whole and set its strategic direction. The company — a specialist education hosting and software business, education-exclusive since 2011 — designs, develops and operates platforms and services for universities, colleges and schools across the UK, North America and Europe, delivered with our developers and specialist partners.
- Product and service strategy across the portfolio: Student Web Host Manager, Cloud Pulse, Cover Manager, AI Labs and Education Host Studio
- Software development oversight, working with developers and specialist partners
- Overall responsibility for infrastructure and operations, including the company's own OpenStack cloud
- Customers, partnerships, commercial decisions, financial oversight and long-term growth
Recent engagement
Data consultancy · Social housing sector
Individual consultancy with a housing provider: enriching management-system data with deprivation indices, postcode data and demographic segmentation, and supporting the selection of an enterprise reporting tool. Ground-level data work that still informs how I steer Education Host's data and reporting services.
Earlier career
Senior analyst & technical lead · Clearview Systems
Enterprise reporting and business intelligence delivery (CXAIR, Power BI), including delivering training to professionals across multiple companies — where I learned to translate between technical teams and the people who depend on them.
Earlier career
Business development · Aqua Protec
Project management, tender writing and technical pricing — the commercial grounding behind running a company today: how technical work gets specified, priced and won.
Early career
Lab manager · Worcester Business School Media Lab
Ran the media lab while studying — a first taste of operational responsibility: keeping teaching infrastructure working for the people who depend on it.
Education
BSc (Hons) Computing — First-class honours
University of Worcester
- Titania Cyber Security Award
- Academic scholarship
A note on dates: where a period is described loosely, that's deliberate — this page only asserts dates that are verified against a current source.