Jack's proud to lead Emerging Technology at Severn Trent. An experienced business leader having spent over a decade focused on the intersection between technology and the built environment. Jack specialises in applying an entrepreneurial lens to asset-intensive industry challenges to improve and accelerate decision-making through data and the adoption of evolutionary technology. Outside of Severn Trent, Jack leads Future Engineering Club, a community that brings together the brightest minds building the future of our planet and supports industry change as an advisory board member at the Institution of Civil Engineers

Background in consultancy leadership roles including UK Digital Director at WSP, Head of Product at Mott MacDonald Digital Ventures and Strategy and Transformation at IBM, as well as entrepreneurial Co-founder roles in two high-growth built environment startups. Delivered major digital transformation programmes in asset-intensive industries, designed innovation programmes with city Mayors around the world, raised over £7m in venture capital, hired 40+ and negotiated a further $1.2bn in debt/equity startup financing in market-leading startups.