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About the team
FirstStage is scratching our own itch and is built from the problems we have experienced, our learnings, and from our first hand user research.
Coding since 13 years old.
Previously CTO and Executive Director of Strategy, Propositions and Capabilities of Made Tech PLC 2016-22, IPO in 21.
Grew and led team of 500 product, design, engineering, cyber and data experts. Hands-on leader of software teams for 15 years. Built software for 7 startups.
Author of four software books and many (failed) open source libraries. AI and Web3 advocate.
Partner and new father.
People, recruitment, ops for 18 years.
Founder and CEO of WHEN. Head of People and Organisational Development at Oxford University. Previously Director at UCL and Director for Oxford Leadership Academy.
Serial Founder (4x). Sped up gender and race equality in university leadership. Transformed two HR departments at leading UK universities.
Disrupter. Speaker. Runner. Volunteer.
Wife. Mum of two children.
26 years in software engineering.
Previously Founding Engineer at music startup Gignite, Senior Technology Advisor and Principal Software Engineer at Made Tech PLC, Engineering Lead and Architect at The Sporting News.
Worked with startups, charities, global enterprise and UK Government. App developer. Author. Mentored at Mind Charity. Creator of nimblenote and mygayvote.co.uk.
Husband. Father of 4 year old. Owner of Moneypenny 🐶.