Speakers

Andrew leads Faculty’s defence team. Faculty is a leading British applied AI company that builds customised AI-driven software for its clients, which include the Ministry of Defence and defence primes. Prior to working in Faculty, Andrew held a number of senior roles in the public sector, many of which focused on economic development. He was part of the founding team of the British Business Bank, which is now the UK’s main mechanism to encourage finance to small and medium sized industry. He also worked in the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, where one of his responsibilities was leading its economic development programme. As a result, he has hands on experience of economic projects such business incubators and local infrastructure improvements such as harbour redevelopment.