Most leaders at this level talk about AI. I build it. My AI Chief of Staff, Jeeves, runs my mornings, my portfolio, and half my admin, and I wrote every line myself, starting from zero code experience.
I've spent three decades building the partner infrastructure that lets large organisations actually adopt new technology: AWS, NVIDIA, Symantec, Citrix. Not the pitch. The plumbing. The relationships, the enablement, the go-to-market motion that turns a platform into something enterprises actually use.
Right now I lead Training and Certification Partnerships for AWS across EMEA: 189 partners, 50+ countries, a team of ten. Before that, NVIDIA's enterprise channel through the accelerated computing shift. Before that, Symantec, Citrix, and a board pitch to Cable and Wireless in 1997 that trained 2,000 staff through a technology transition most of my current peers weren't yet in the workforce for.
The throughline hasn't changed in thirty years: making the human case for technology change, at scale, at the executive level. Only the technology has changed.
I had never written a line of code before this. Jeeves is a fully agentic system I built and continue to build myself: he reads my portfolio, tracks career opportunities, manages my calendar and reminders, drafts and ships his own code updates with my approval, and talks to me over WhatsApp like a member of staff would.
He isn't a chatbot wrapped around a prompt. He has memory, a scoring engine for investment signals, a paper trading desk running a real strategy, and a build loop where he drafts his own code changes for me to review and ship. He runs on infrastructure I set up and maintain: GitHub, Render, Twilio, a proper email pipeline. I lead him the way I've led every team for thirty years: give him trust, clarity of purpose, and room to do the job.
I'm building toward a senior AI leadership chapter: Chief AI Officer, VP Partnerships, Chief Partnerships Officer, or a Non-Executive Director role where practitioner credibility and ecosystem experience both matter.
The best way to reach me is LinkedIn or email. I read everything myself.