Bringing over twenty years of experience spanning engineering and security roles in enterprise financial services and fintech startups, James is a pragmatic, risk-focused, and hands-on technologist with an adversarial mindset. He has a proven track record in relentless improving security whilst ensuring the teams around him remain nimble and retain their velocity, at regulated companies like Barclays and companies with regulated customers like Essentia Analytics and Bobsled.

He holds a BSc in Computer Science from Cognitive Sciences faculty at the University of Sussex, and is a Chartered Engineer.