Jonathan is a Global Commercial and Technology leader with experience in and advising firms across Europe, North America and Asia Pacific through their journey from traditional enterprises to Innovative and Agile businesses ready to tackle the fast-paced changing economy, competitive complexities and consumer driven landscape.

Jonathan is an advisor for several charitable boards to technology utilisation, business operations and market engagement. Prior to these roles Jonathan was the Chief Growth Officer at GFT managing the end-to-end restructure of the business from sales through to the professional services unit, resulting in doubling of revenue and tripling of profits over two years.

Before GFT Jonathan led security globally at HSBC Digital. He led the creation of a new foundational security architecture and flexible modular authentication, Biometric and Anti-Fraud software platform that reduced the operational complexity from 5 systems across 38 market, reduction of global budget by 15%, whilst increasing threat responsiveness by 400% within twelve months.

Whilst at IBM Jonathan was the accountable Partner for the redevelopment of the European Blockchain Delivery centres, increasing overall expertise, scaled delivery capability, and enabling the construction of large consortia such as WeTrade (https://we-trade.com), TradeLens (https://www.tradelens.com), LedgerConnect and Vinturas deliverying £100MM in ARR. Before leading the Blockchain, Jonathan led the global recovery of Maersk’s global IT systems in eight weeks (120 plus core systems), and over the following six months restored 2000 other systems after the #NotPetya attack, as well as developing the future business continuity strategy to migrate the effect of any future attacks. (https://www.wired.com/story/notpetya-cyberattack-ukraine-russia-code-crashed-the-world/)

Jonathan has a Master of Science in Information Systems and Management, and former lecturer at Warwick Business School. Jonathan also was a former board member of the Auto-ID centre, a former Board Member of MIT’s Supply Chain Innovation Forum at the School of Engineering and the former Project Lead for the RFID project at the Global Supply Chain Council.