From board-level advisory to hands-on fractional executive leadership — matched to where your organisation needs the support most.
Boards and Leadership Teams are under growing pressure to explain how AI will change the direction of their organisation — and that pressure is too often offloaded onto the CIO or CTO alone. Gen AI represents a generational paradigm shift across the whole business, so the strategy, the communication and the resourcing it needs have to be owned from the top down. Andy typically gets engaged when leadership senses that technical debt or poor technology adoption — particularly around Gen AI — is starting to constrain growth, working alongside the existing Senior Leadership and Board to define the goals of change and architect the technology stack the strategy needs. This is grounded in a Stanford certification in AI-Driven Leadership and live deployment experience, including agentic AI use cases built on Salesforce AgentForce — with a consistent starting point: robust data foundations are the prerequisite for monetising AI, not an afterthought to it.
Embedded executive leadership of technology, delivery and operations — without the overhead or timeline of a permanent hire. Andy has led three consecutive front-to-back SaaS technology transformations for regulated UK lenders, each delivered on time and on original budget, alongside interim CTO and COO mandates at listed and PE-backed businesses.
Independent, board-level technology governance for organisations that need genuine challenge, not just reporting. Currently serving as Chairman of Technology and European Advisory Board member at Interbridge Group, as Vice-Chairman & NED at Wessex Community Bank, and as Non-Executive Chairman of Hapie AI, an early-stage AI Delivery Lifecycle platform — having previously chaired the Board Audit & Compliance Committee at Hampshire Community Bank.
Enterprise-wide scaled agile (SAFe®) delivery leadership for organisations running complex, multi-year transformation programmes — spanning planning, execution and embedding change so it doesn't regress once the programme team moves on. Andy is now applying this against Scaled Agile Inc.'s newly unveiled AI-Native SAFe® — the evolution of the framework built specifically for the Age of AI — bringing an early, practical view of what it means for delivery organisations well ahead of the market.
Four shifts amplify existing Lean-Agile tenets: from a focus on outputs to outcomes and intent; from cross-functional teams to cross-functional, AI-augmented teams; from iterative learning cycles to iterative learning and rapid experimentation; and from development at scale to development and innovation at scale — all sustained by a Human-Centric AI Culture in which human judgement stays as the final loop for value, safety and purpose.
Strategy is aligned from the change portfolio mandated by Boards to delivery team level through an "outcome tree" tracked against shared OKRs, with ambition calibrated through "Moonshots" and "Roofshots" — so daily delivery decisions stay autonomous yet tied firmly to the organisation's overarching vision.
As a Certified AI-Empowered SAFe® Agilist, Andy is tracking AI-Native SAFe's rollout through Scaled Agile's 2026 Early Access programme, and can help Boards and delivery organisations plan their transition as full guidance lands — or apply AI-Empowered Agility principles within a Core SAFe implementation today.
Across three consecutive engagements — a PE-backed regulated 2nd charge mortgage market entrant, an established regulated consumer lender and a non-regulated property lender — Andy has designed, architected and delivered the full front-to-back (originations, onboarding, decisioning, servicing) technology stack, spanning startup, scale-up and established organisations. Every programme was cloud-native, built on industry-leading SaaS platforms, integrated via modern API and agentic technology layers, and complemented by an independent data fabric for reporting, analytics and AI readiness. Supplier selection, commercial negotiation and contract management were handled personally throughout, from market assessment to ongoing vendor management.
| Business Process Automation | Salesforce Financial Services Cloud, Experience Cloud, Marketing Cloud, AgentForce |
|---|---|
| Integration Layer | MuleSoft |
| Core Banking Engine | Mambu · Thought Machine Vault |
| Credit Decisioning | Zoot |
| Data Fabric & Analytics | Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse |
| Ancillary Platforms | Quote calculator, broker portal, document generation, e-signature (DocuSign), KYC/AML, ID‑Verification & onboarding |
A short, no-obligation call to understand your situation, timeline and what success looks like.
A fixed-price assessment of the as-is business and technology landscapes, the customer/employee/regulatory touch points, and the scale and criticality of technical debt build-up. A no-nonsense assessment of what it will take to achieve the desired to-be state.
Agreeing the right engagement model — fractional executive, NED/advisory, or project-based — and commercial terms.
Embedded, accountable delivery with regular reporting to your Board, ExCo or investors throughout.