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Like a neurotic superhero, I have many identities…

  • One of the founding partners of Carbon Imagineering, the emerging technologies think tank and product hothouse behind Fingertip, mee:view, Believr and Personomii…we’re building the next generation of consumer internet applications…
  • (Formerly, Deputy Director of Technology Research at Orange UK and part of the team that established Freeserve’s R&D unit and Wanadoo’s Research & Innovation division – each providing intelligence on emerging technologies, consumer trends and innovation strategy)…
  • One of the founders of Rich Gibson’s Internet of Values initiative…
  • A board director for bmedi@, helping grow West Yorkshire’s new media ecosphere…
  • About to join enterprise news startup Ensembli as a non-executive director…
  • A programme consultant and blogger for O’Reilly’s Emerging Telephony brand and an occasional contributor to O’ReillyGMT
  • (A former writer and commentator for TechCrunch UK)…
  • A contributing writer for Corante’s Mobile Messaging 2.0
  • Bootstrapped OpenCoffee Leeds and BarCamp Leeds
  • A sometime graphic designer and software developer…

…but really, I’m a dreamer – fascinated by the transformative potential of world-changing ideas, people and technologies 🙂