AI Product Leader
Doctor turned product leader. I build AI tools to help researchers advance human knowledge.
I left medicine to build products that help researchers accelerate discovery. Now I lead LeapSpace at Elsevier, focused on making AI tools that genuinely support the advancement of human knowledge.
I started out as a doctor. Those intense NHS shifts showed me problems that technology could solve. In my free time, I built apps to address them. One project led to another, and before I knew it, I'd traded my stethoscope for product strategy.
Now I'm a Senior Director of Product Management at Elsevier, where I lead LeapSpace, the research-grade AI workspace built on Scopus data and ScienceDirect full-text. The mission is simple: help researchers discover the knowledge they need to advance human understanding, whether that's curing diseases, understanding climate change, or exploring the cosmos.
I started my career as an NHS doctor. Those intense shifts treating patients one by one showed me something I couldn't ignore: the problems I saw weren't unique to my hospital or even my city. They were systemic. And whilst I could help individual patients, I kept thinking about how much more impact I could have if I built tools that helped thousands, even millions of people at once. That realisation led me to trade my stethoscope for product strategy.
Now I'm a Senior Director of Product Management at Elsevier, where I lead LeapSpace, the research-grade AI workspace. My goal is simple: help researchers find the knowledge they need to advance human understanding, whether that's curing diseases, understanding climate change, or exploring the cosmos. I've also created RAG-Fusion, an open-source contribution that others in the AI community have found useful. It's medicine at a different scale.
My approach comes from those early days in medicine: define what good looks like before diving in, measure real behaviour (not assumptions), and meet people where they are, not where you think they should be. Whether it's building AI systems or making pasta sauce, the principle stays the same.
Quick links to discover more about my work
My journey from NHS doctor to product manager
Where I've worked and what I've built
AI tools and side projects I've created
Writing about product management and AI
Talks, podcasts, and appearances
Highlights from a decade of reading
Let's connect and collaborate
Handpicked pieces I'm particularly proud of or that sparked the most interesting conversations
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and why I've been making Bob Dylan songs about Sonic the Hedgehog
and how to use tarot cards for sprint planning.
and how to use tarot cards for sprint planning.
Building Faster, More Reliable Agents with Sequential Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Building Faster, More Reliable Agents with Sequential Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Favourite highlights from a decade of reading, captured with Readwise
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald · The Crack-Up
Product work is full of contradictions. This one reminds me it's fine to sit with them.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
Product work is full of contradictions. This one reminds me it's fine to sit with them.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Crack-Up
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Will Durant · The Story of Philosophy
I come back to this whenever I'm tempted to chase a shortcut instead of building the muscle.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
I come back to this whenever I'm tempted to chase a shortcut instead of building the muscle.
Will Durant
The Story of Philosophy
The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.
Pablo Picasso · Conversations with Picasso
A useful antidote to the part of my brain that wants every idea to be sensible before it's even born.
The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.
A useful antidote to the part of my brain that wants every idea to be sensible before it's even born.
Pablo Picasso
Conversations with Picasso
Things I keep turning over. No answers yet, and that's the point.
What would academic research look like if we designed discovery tools for curiosity rather than productivity?
How do you build trust in AI systems when the people using them understand the domain better than the system does?
Is there a version of 'evidence-based' thinking that doesn't accidentally filter out the questions worth asking?
What's lost when we optimise for finding answers instead of sitting with better questions?
You found it! This is what happens when you give a doctor access to 3D scanning equipment. No patients were harmed in the making of this digital twin.
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