Independent Consultant

Seizing opportunities for growth through innovative solutions and business models.
Guiding startups and corporate teams towards customer-centric innovation to validate solutions and commercial approaches.
Establishing new capabilities and streamlining innovation processes.

Venture Building and Innovation consultant

Imperial College London

Equipping STEM students at the 2nd best University in the world (QS 2024), and top 1 university in UK / top 5 in the world for prospective entrepreneurs (Forbes 2022).

Lecturer in Entrepreneurship

Venture Building Programme Director

Startup Incubation Programme Director

Partnered with STEM students, alumni and staff to launch start-ups teams from deep tech inventions at the on-campus incubator Imperial Enterprise Lab. 
Helped startups in the Enterprise Lab community raise £90m+ in pre-seed, seed funds and grants.

Venture Builder in residence

Brinc

Supporting Pre-Seed stage to the Series A stage startups in the MENA region part of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Innovation Fund, Mohammed Bin Salman Foundation, and at the Climate Tech accelerator in Singapore

Climate Tech Entrepreneur In Residence

Carbon13

Coaching early stage founders at the Venture Builder for the Climate Emergency, with each venture planning to mitigate 10 million tonnes of CO2 per annum once at scale.

Climate Tech Venture Advisor

Established and managed a Climate Tech Corporate Venture Capital focusing on critical minerals for the energy transition. Key achievements include:
- Defined strategic direction for growth and prioritized opportunities
- Advanced a pipeline of new SaaS B2B ventures, enabling data-driven decisions in climate technology and industry decarbonisation
- Successfully launched one SaaS venture, achieving one sale at prototype stage (a company first), and securing 10 clients with pre-purchase agreements signed before market launch

Venture Studio - Innovation Director

Studio Zao

Co-founded and scaled to 10 team members an innovation consultancy firm.
Won, designed and directed Innovation, Corporate Venture-Building, Incubation and Research Commercialisation programmes for some of the world's leading global brands.
Devised, validated and launched new products and services generating £X00m in value for our partner organisations.
Clients included Sony Music Entertainment, Target Corp (USA and India), NHS, Pentland Brands, Pearson, Philip Morris International (Switzerland), Gojek (Indonesia), UK Civil Service, Wellcome Genome Campus, Institute of Cancer Research.

Founding Partner and Innovation Director

Lean Startup Co.

Organised 20+ networking events for a 5k members strong community of startup founders, corporate innovators and investors

Lean Startup Ambassador - London

The Bradfield Centre

Startup Incubation and Acceleration services within the Cambridge Science Park tech cluster.

Entrepreneur in Residence

TechItaliaLAB

Startup Mentor

Tvfacile

Top 1 online property on Digital TV in Italy, acquired by Switch Media.

Co-Founder [EXIT]

Venture Builder and Serial Entrepreneur with two successful exits, advising startups for global VCs, incubators, and accelerators.
Innovation Director with 20 years' experience in energy transition, media, healthcare, transportation, retail. 
Co-founded and scaled a consultancy firm in London, partnering with major brands like Sony Music, Philip Morris, and Target.
Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at Imperial College London.

(my name is pronounced “dáh-vee-deh”)

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