Senior Data Scientist and Research Fellow at James Cook University (JCU), founder of its Masters in Data Science program (2014), managing industry liaison and joint research partnerships

30+ years leadership in Financial Intelligence, Copyright Licensing, Big Telco and Data Architecture. Co‑founder of a VC‑backed tech startup, with expertise in vision‑based production models and computational linguistics for intelligent document processing.

Digital Business Leader with 25+ years experience in new business development, strategy and innovation, new product, commercial management and finance.

Managing in organisations including a membership association, multi-national, major listed consumer, venture backed buy-out and start-up.

Sector experience is from Copyright Licensing, Music, Digital Media & Entertainment and Big Telco. Holds an MBA and is a Chartered Accountant.

Over 15 years experience designing data-driven solutions for business intelligence applications, deploying machine learning models, and delivering actionable insights across various sectors including public sector health.

Specialist in complex data integration projects, and managing full lifecycle of data projects.

Technical skills span business intelligence, data warehousing, machine learning, including predictive modelling, image classification via neural networks, and natural language processing.  

Data Science graduate with Power BI Schema Design and Architecture specialism including Implementation and Data Pipeline Engineering.

Visualisation & Reporting expertise including dashboard development and Data Visualisation for Scientific Reporting.