CTO-level executive building scalable platforms, teams, and AI-powered systems that drive growth. 20+ years architecting B2B SaaS from startup through IPO. Currently leading strategic EU AI Act compliance and AI-powered platform integrations. Delivers results: 99.999% reliability, zero-defect security audits, and foundations that close enterprise deals.
Provides company-wide technology leadership as de-facto CTO, including EU AI Act compliance strategy, strategic partnership evaluation, and technical vision alignment with Series A fundraising objectives.
Leads technical evaluation and integration planning for strategic enterprise partnerships, prioritizing integrations that expand addressable market while minimizing technical debt and maintaining platform flexibility.
Led ISO 27001:2022 (ISMS) certification in collaboration with C-suite, achieving zero nonconformities (08/2025), thereby positioning company for funding readiness and customer acquisition.
Established security-first development culture and shift-left QA practices to accelerate enterprise sales cycles and improve competitive positioning in regulated markets.
Scaled platform team 0 to 7 while architecting for IPO.
Led technical due diligence for successful Tokyo Stock Exchange listing.
Established infrastructure foundation supporting international expansion.
Led vendor evaluation process for security tools and negotiated enterprise-level contracts, reducing per-seat costs by up to 65%.
Aligned technical roadmaps with business objectives, translating complex concepts for C-suite stakeholders and securing executive buy-in for critical infrastructure investments.
Led global B2B retail SaaS platform (before Allm’s pivot to medical tech), serving thousands of retail stores worldwide; reduced cost-per-customer by 90%.
Founded and operated SaaS ventures with paying customers in Japan, the UK, and the EU.
Built FacetScore, an AI-powered sentiment analysis platform for hospitality businesses, and developed multilingual LLM optimisation techniques achieving 15 to 20 percent accuracy improvements over standard monolingual approaches.
Architected an EU AI Act compliant system ahead of regulatory enforcement.
Wound down commercial operations in November 2025 to focus on executive engineering leadership, applying experience from AI/ML production systems, regulatory compliance, and B2B SaaS economics.
Delivered SaaS products and managed global client projects across five countries while founding Converge, Scotland's first all-of-industry technology conference.
AI & Machine Learning: Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), BERT, LangChain, Agentic AI, computer vision, EU AI Act compliance
Data Engineering: Data warehousing, analytics platforms, ETL pipelines, business intelligence
Languages: English (Native), Japanese (working towards Business proficiency with ongoing formal study)