How I got here.

I studied Economics at Bath, and spent my placement year working for a venture fund in Palo Alto — from the UK, on California hours. It was an odd rhythm, but a brilliant introduction: early-stage diligence, investment memos, and a lot of listening to founders explain what they were building and why anyone should care.

That set the direction. After graduating I joined NoBa Capital, an early-stage fund in London, sourcing and evaluating companies across the future-of-work space and working closely with the portfolio. It was hands-on in the way early-stage investing should be.

I now work in Transaction Services at Interpath, where I run financial due diligence on buy-side and sell-side transactions — picking apart trading performance, earnings quality and working capital to work out what a business is really worth. It's the same curiosity as venture, applied with considerably more rigour.

The best way to understand what makes a software business work is to try building one yourself.

Which is roughly how the building started. I've used AI-assisted development tools to design and build LeagueMate — a full web app, authentication and database and all — and this site is built the same way. Spending my days assessing companies and my evenings building one has made me better at both.

A pattern I've noticed: everything I enjoy rewards patience and punishes shortcuts. Which probably explains the job, and definitely explains the golf.

• Golf

  The one I think about most and play best in my head. I'm firmly down the marginal-gains rabbit hole — swing changes that take three months to stop feeling wrong, and an unshakeable conviction that this is the season it all clicks.

• Tennis

  Where the competitive streak goes. Faster feedback than golf and considerably more satisfying when it goes right.

• Running

  The opposite appeal entirely — no technique to overthink, no opponent, just the bit of the week where the only variable is whether I actually go.

• Fantasy football

  Taken far more seriously than it deserves. Serious enough that I built an app to keep score of the league's long-running forfeit, which tells you most of what you need to know about both the league and me.

• AI and building things

  A genuine obsession at this point. I'm interested in what these tools let someone non-technical actually finish and ship — and the fastest way to find out is to keep building things with them.

• InterpathTransaction Services — London2024 – present
• NoBa CapitalVenture capital — London2023
• Fusion FundVenture capital — Palo Alto2020 – 2021
• University of BathBSc Economics2018 – 2022