About Me#
I’m an experienced strategist, researcher and designer with a unique blend of quantitative skills, creativity, and coding capabilities. My background spanning academia, think tanks and corporate roles equipped me with expertise in design methods, cutting-edge technologies such as AI, Web3, and XR, as well as business development, including future market sizing, org design and internal capability building.
Work Experience#
Alternative Futures Specialist - Connected Places Catapult#
March 2024 – Current
Responsible for developing the Human Connected Design Directorate’s strategy and foresight offering. I focus on three elements of strategy for our clients: where to play, how to win and how to be agile when change is necessary. I lead several bids and work packs.
Representative Projects
- National Infrastructure: Scan, quantification and selection criteria for market adjacencies.
- Cybersecurity: Development of policy for future skills needed in the sector.
- Maritime Industry: Future of telecommunications, implications and strategy.
Foresight Strategist - Dive Without Fear#
October 2022 – March 2024
Founding team member to establish, develop and commercialise a new foresights strategy offer. Directly responsible for developing novel computational simulations and new market measurement and evaluation frameworks for future markets. Co-developed speculative designs to immerse clients into alternative futures.
Representative Projects
- Global drinks brand: 2030 valuations for five alternative futures to support the global marketing function in securing innovation and activation funding for new product development pipeline.
- Global consumers product company: development of the global marketing foresights team toolkit, including methodology development, capability design and org design.
- Global gaming company: developed a unique strategic foresight programme to identify and evaluate future markets, built computational simulations, and decoded three emerging markets, including market capitalisation benefits.
Speculative Designer - Connected Places Catapult#
January 2022 – October 2022
I helped establish design-led strategic foresight, work¬ing with the UK government, SMEs and academia to enable breakthrough innovation. I worked with private and public organisations spanning industries of advanced air mobility, rail, maritime transport, and digital twins. I was responsible for future product develop¬ment, horizon scanning, and prototyping. Further, I led design futures and client alignment workshops.
Lecturer - Ravensbourne University#
September 2020 – May 2022
Designed and delivered: Introduction to 3D Skills and Immersive Technologies - Coding, Figures and Visuals - Creative Computing - Digital Marketing.
Visiting Lecturer - Royal College of Art#
October 2018 – October 2022
Delivered courses on ethics, future forecasting, trans¬disciplinary practices between design and science.
Multiple Roles#
2018 – Current
- At the Near Future Laboratory, I am leading the design, development, and prototyping of a modern reinterpretation of the Casio F91W watch and handled hardware design for large-scale manufacturing.
- At Metalabel, I contributed to Web3 business development by building a distributed network of peers and developing custom ERC721-based tokens.
- For OPPO, I developed next-generation bone-conducting headphones, focusing on concept development, rapid prototyping, and patent applications.
- At CERN IdeaSquare, I supported the development of an open-source muon particle detector for earthquake early alert systems.
- At Cambridge University, I developed an AI-enabled sensor for real-time monitoring of insect infestations using sub-hearing oscillations.
Skills#
- Strategy
- Corporate Foresight
- Product Development
- Rapid Prototyping
- Wireframing
- C++/C#
- Adobe Creative Suite
Education#
PhD, Robotics - Royal College of Art
MA, Service Design - Royal College of Art
BSc, Communication Design - Politecnico di Milano