01 — TIMELINE
Pivotal moments
Site, then design office, then software. Two decades in construction and the products built for it, across five countries.
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2004
London
Boots on site first
A pre-university year in industry: site engineer for Costain on St Pancras International, the HS1 Eurostar terminus. How buildings actually get built — learned on the contracting side, before the design office.
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2007
London
From Imperial to Arup
A First in Civil Engineering from Imperial, then Arup: structural engineering on skyscrapers, starting with the 280m Pinnacle in the City of London.
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2009
Shanghai
Shanghai, where the towers were
Moved to Shanghai because that was where super-high-rise was booming: 400m+ towers with KPF, MVRDV and Safdie. Writing code to automate design processes to keep projects on pace.
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2015
San Francisco
Turned down INSEAD for a Google X startup
Accepted to INSEAD, then turned it down to join Flux, a Google X spin-out in San Francisco. Drove adoption 0 → 10,000+ users.
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2016
San Francisco
First team, first number
Founded Flux’s Advanced Services practice, selling $250k engagements to Hilti, Lendlease, BCG and PwC. First time building a team and owning its number.
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2018
San Mateo
Singapore
0→1, and an exit
Co-founded Helix RE and led product: digital twins, ML on 3D geometry. Opened the Singapore office. Acquired by Density.io.
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2019
Santa Monica
Building for Google’s real estate org
Client Engagement Director at Outer Labs. Led three delivery squads building SaaS for Google’s Real Estate org — digital twins, cost management, supply chain, workspace planning.
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2021
Munich
Five years as CPO
Chief Product Officer at Building Radar, Munich. Turned 40% churn into 120% net revenue retention and reached breakeven, was instrumental in a $7M raise, then doubled ARR year on year and rebuilt the product AI-native.
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2026
London
Back to London
Head of Product at Prolo — AI procurement for SME contractors. Hands-on, building it with the engineers.