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CEO and Co-Founder

Cambridge Judge Business School

Guest speaker for MBA and MFin lectures on the importance of Investor Fit in the Venture Capital industry and how technologies currently being developed will make this easier.

Guest Speaker

TAINA Technology Limited

-	Produced financial model, collateral and managed prospective VC and institutional investor communications that ensured valuations between 8-10X end of year ARR, leading to term sheets
-	Delivered 60% of new revenues in 2019
-	Won key first clients in the crypto and stock-trading segments
-	Negotiated key customer contracts, ensuring the business could price higher than competitors through a superior offering
-	Established a presence in the USA as part of international expansion (pre-US incorporation)
-	Co-designed and produced a retail customer-facing web and mobile web application to early adopter clients, from a business (non-technical) perspective (B2B2C distribution model)
-	Managed the successful go-live of said app, ensuring customer and compliance needs from application were met by the Technology and Compliance teams
-	Created training manuals and processes for client customer service teams to manage exception handling
-	Solicited and fed customer feedback into roadmap, produced business cases and championed customer needs with high value generating potential
-	Managed, maintained and upsold key client relationships
-	Designed and produced marketing and sales collateral, managed website re-design
-	Responsible for prospect demonstrations in key growth segments
-	Trained new users on the platform, requiring a detailed knowledge of the system and architecture
-	Invited on the Oracle podcast to discuss TAINA, Data & Analytics
-	Represented TAINA at events and in publications, including a DIT event in Frankfurt and in L39 publications.
-	Managed market communications specific to B2B and B2B2C distribution model of the business, ensuring regular feeds of market news.
-	Co-ordinated office move
-	Trained team members in production of collateral, account management and demonstrations 
-	Key decision maker for non-technical business hires
-	Successfully applied to the Morgan Stanley Multi-Cultural Innovation Lab as part of a team

Commercial and Communications Lead

Axis Corporate

Leading European Fintech: 
- Building a business on DLT for international remittances and lending platform. Activities include economic modelling, business analysis, competitor analysis, vendor negotiations, pricing strategy, customer journey mapping and client relationship management.  
- Creating Funding applications; Strategy, Product road map, commercialisation of core technology, financial sector partnership and distribution model strategy.
Leading European Fintech:
- Producing a report on market entry strategy and product alignment. Including TAM, SAM, SOM analysis, assessing likely demand for a groundbreaking financial product.
Other:
- Advising Fintechs and FIs on application to the Alternative Remedies Capability and Innovation Fund

Senior Consultant

Leading UK Bank: 
  - Assisted Branch rationalisation and Bank digitisation Programme
  - Digital tool selection, business case writing, Fintech partnership co-ordination

UK Challenger Banks and Fintechs:
  - RBS Alternative Remedies package Capability and Innovation fund strategic advisory

Head of Fintech partnerships: 
      - Ecosystem integration and evolution (technical and process)
      - Regulated DLT e-money payments and micro-payments projects 
      - Durable Media Proof of Concept
      - Business Case and senior stakeholder buy-in

Consultant

UKIMUN

Games and events company specialising in competitive game-ification around elections and other political scenarios. 
Basic data model creation for US and UK election scenarios.

Co Founder

Public Sector Security Services  – Project Manager and Business Analyst					
Led Software as a Service based project. Including: 
- Led process design for new software development marketplace project
- Management of multiple stakeholders senior to him both inside CSC and from other towers in a SIAM model
- Supported the transition of new joiners to CSC, acting in an ambassador role to multiple new work streams
- Delivered several process analyses, delivering better value to the client

Global Insurer Next-Generation IT Operating Model - Business Analyst				
- Assisted the design of a Digital TOM to enable more rapid product and service development. 
- Ensured digital strategy cohesion; combining the CSC digital vision for a Global Insurer's Operations with the vision of the client. 
- Managed internal stakeholders in an engagement with multiple moving parts.

MiFiD II impact assessment for Global FS Institution 
- Organisational impact analysis
- Recommendations on impacted business areas

Next-Generation IT Operating Model 
- Produced impact analysis for IT TOM for future integration of big data, BI, automation and hybrid cloud capabilities 
- Produced technology maturity matrix for future integrations as part of strategic change roadmap

Achievements:
- Created CSC viewpoint on the new EU-US Data Privacy Shield Agreement (data privacy)
- Co-authored CSC's thought leadership on Next-Generation Digital Target Operating Models
- Impact Analysis of MiFID II regulations on a Global Financial Institution
- Assisting with development of a Future Target Operating Model and future strategy for a global Financial Services firm
- Software Development Marketplace for Public Sector
- PRINCE II Foundation certified

Associate Consultant

thisislanguage.com

- Led business development in the UK market and assisted with US market growth
- Assisted the design of future growth strategy following a successful funding round
- Produced a phased business growth plan based upon demographic hotspots
- Assisted agile product development feedback loop from customer interactions

Account Executive & future strategy planner (Edtech startup)

- KYC reviews of High Risk and Ultra High Risk institutional clients

Senior Associate

CfBT Education Trust

- Business process re-engineering
- Business Analysis
- Proof reading of policies and standards

(Hays Contractor) Data Analyst - Agresso Project

Sovereign Housing Association

- Communications with stakeholders throughout the group
- Housing Market Research & Review for Sovereign Living Operations Manager
- Research project for Board into possible compatibility of Islamic Finance with Social Housing
- Legal Administration of complex Shared-Ownership property sales (6 party conveyancing procedures)
- Internal and external stakeholder management

(Hays Contractor) Conveyancing co-ordinator and Market Researcher

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Daniel Sawko

Ocula Technologies

Turn visitors into customers through actionable AI. Ocula's innovative SaaS insights platform works with global eCommerce retailers and brands to increase conversion rate by 20% through 3 simple steps using Ocula Boost:

Step 1: Analysing each page versus the best in class and competitors 
Step 2: Prioritising the pages and elements to focus on given limited time and budgets
Step 3: It creates the solution e.g. auto-generated SEO friendly product descriptions and alt tags

Therefore eCommerce teams have actionable insights to drive conversion, engagement and revenue with set up in as little as 3 days with no IT involvement!

CEO | Co-Founder

Bain & Company

Associate Partner 

Monitor Deloitte

Digital Transformation Lead

dunnhumby

Head of Personalisation for the UK, Asia and Central Europe. Responsible for the design and delivery of advanced analytics projects and solutions to drive profitability and operational efficiencies. Clients included Tesco, Homeplus and a variety of US retailers.

Product Director

Procter & Gamble

P&G Internship 

Meet Copywriter from Ocula – Your AI Product Page Powerhouse

Copywriter from Ocula is your AI agent for ecommerce copywriting that drives results. It creates brand-aligned, search-optimised product descriptions—at speed, at scale, and with zero IT involvement.

Whether you’re launching new SKUs or optimising your long tail, Copywriter is always on, proactively writing copy that helps maximise traffic and revenue.

✅ 10% average uplift in traffic across organic, AI-powered search and paid media
✅ 95% faster product page launches
✅ No dev work required—just plug in and go

Trusted by leading ecommerce and travel brands to take the manual work (and delays) out of product content.

Thomas M.

What a difference a year makes. 🚀  

This time last year, Ocula’s AI product copywriter was powerful - but today it’s on a completely different level.

In the last 12 months we’ve transformed the product into something faster, smarter, and more autonomous than ever:

🌟 AEO + GEO + SEO-optimised out of the box
⚡ 5,000+ products generated in 24 hours - a new scale of performance
🌍  Fully multilingual, ready for global teams
🧠 100% self-serve - users now create copy styles, run QA samples, and work directly with the agent (no more back-and-forth emails)
 
And so much more…

What’s next?

We’re about to surface evaluation-agent insights directly to users - giving teams recommendations on how to further enhance their product copy quality. More to come on that soon.

For now, just incredibly proud of the team, the pace of innovation, and the leap forward we’ve made. 

Onwards. 

#aeo #geo #seo #ecommerce #agents

Brave and bold #ecommerce leaders will win in the new #search landscape. Well done to Profound for a great event yesterday. 

Ensuring your product catalogue is visible for #agents matters. Your product pages and their data determine whether customers find you or your competitors. 

You need to create more content then ever and do it smartly. Also don’t limit your #AI to just creating  more of the same product copy and metadata you do today. It can do SO much more if you don’t constrain it with copy requirements that were developed 15 years ago…if you do you are getting a faster horse. 

Be bold, be brave, leverage AI and win in #aeo #geo and #seo

🚀 New upgrades to Ocula Copywriter: Smarter length control & automatic unit formatting

LLMs are incredible - but they still fall over on two things #ecommerce teams care about: exact length limits and clean, consistent formatting.

If you don’t get this right then search optimised product content can’t go live —> traffic and revenue uplift gone. All the effort to create it wasted. 

We decided to fix both.

✂️ 1. Smarter Length Control
The problem: Ask an LLM to cut 50 words and you might get 30… or 70.
What we built: An adaptive correction system that learns how the model responds to reduction requests and adjusts dynamically.

The result: We now hit target lengths reliably - while processing copy 6× faster.

📏 2. Automatic Unit Formatting
The problem: Product data is a mess. Symbols vs words, inconsistent spacing, mixed unit systems… chaos in every feed.

What we built: A dedicated formatting agent that standardises spacing, symbols/words, abbreviations, and even auto-converts metric ↔ imperial. It can also detect and preserve original formatting when needed.

The result: Clean, consistent units across all product copy - automatically.

This is the kind of deep, unglamorous product work that makes a huge difference for #retailers and #brands at scale.

Huge shoutout to Niall McInerney and Alex C. Santos for leading on these enhancements.

If you’d like to see it in action on your product pages, happy to share a demo.

#ai #search #aeo #geo #seo

🤙 🤙 CALLING ALL CONSULTANCIES AND AGENCIES 🤙 🤙 

We increasingly get asked by clients:

“How should Ocula's agent fit into our end-to-end content creation process?”

We help guide them - but like any technology, AI agents need the right people and process to deliver maximum value.

So I’m looking to connect with consultancies and agencies who want to partner on:
🔧 Operating model redesign 
 🤖 Preparing teams and workflows for AI agents
 🌍 Supporting major UK & North American retailers

If you (or someone in your network) does this kind of work and wants to create the future AEO and GEO winners, drop me a message.

There’s a lot of transformation ahead - and we’re looking for great partners to build it with.

One of my favourite bits of feedback recently:

“Every time I log in to Copywriter, there’s something new.”

That’s exactly how we want it to feel - a product that’s getting better every single week.

We help retailers win in SEO, GEO and AEO by making their product catalogues more visible and more compelling. But one big challenge kept coming up:

Teams aren’t ready for any AI agent - even ours - to push copy live without a human in the loop.

Fair enough. But QA’ing thousands of PDPs? Brutal.

So we built a smarter workflow:
 🔍 Our agent shows samples from the full batch
 📝 You give feedback or approve
 🚀 We bake that into the entire run

You QA once. We handle the rest.

We launched it recently and clients loved it - except for the wait time.

So we focused immediately on improving that.

This week we’re rolling out a big speed improvement. Sample generation is now much faster while still passing multiple agentic quality checks behind the scenes.

We’re not at “instant” yet… but that’s what we’re driving toward.

Onwards.

#aeo #geo #seo #agents

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