Leadership

Academic, organisational and AI transformation leadership.

A track record of leading people, projects and AI systems in complex, regulated and diverse environments.

Current

Where I lead today.

Birmingham City University

Professor of Industrial AI · Head of Teaching & Learning

Leading teaching and learning activity, supervising applied AI research, directing consultancy projects and leading a diverse team of over 100 academic staff and 3,000 students.

Strategic AI leadership

£4.2m+ programme delivery & Interim CTO

Managing multi-stakeholder projects with regulatory reporting. Developed web-platform build in dynamic startup

Our Safer City

Chief Data Scientist

Working alongside City of London Police on predictive analytics and dashboards to help prevent violence against women and girls.

FinTech & education innovation

AI Advisor · Head of Content

AI Advisor to Figg Wealth on strategy, LLM integration and predictive analytics. Head of Content with Bot Theory, building bite-size education in web-3.0 game environments.

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students across led programmes
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apprentices from 20+ organisations
From our first meeting with Iain, it was clear he understood how companies and consultancy worked, and how best to interact with us. The quick turn-around and business-focussed approach was not what we had come to expect from an academic institution.
Stuart EwenCEO, Mindset Associates

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