Adapt, evolve, transform

Adam has spent thirty-five years advising, sitting on and reporting to executive teams and their boards, much of it helping whole sectors navigate existential change: music copyright and digital licensing at the dawn of the internet, the major film distributors’ shift from DVD and download to streaming, the relaunch of the leading global university rankings, and AI-driven biodiversity risk and compliance for corporates and financial institutions. Most recently he has advised professional-services firms on AI-driven productivity and built new strategic frameworks for law firms facing the leadership and organisational challenges of the AI era.

Alongside the advisory work he has held multiple CEO roles, from building QS Consulting to leading Nature MRV, the first AI-driven biodiversity reporting platform. For over a decade his experience has been sought by leading business schools, including London Business School, UCL, Oxford and Imperial, where he has taught growth, leadership and entrepreneurship to more than 1,200 senior executives. He is a Sloan Fellow of London Business School and a practising solicitor, having qualified in 1995 and worked at City firms and as Head of Legal at listed PLCs.

Janaina believes the firms that thrive through disruption will be those whose leaders can stay clear, connected and human under pressure. She has spent twenty-five years building and running professional services firms, both from the inside and from the board. She joined Integration Consulting as an analyst and rose to Managing Partner, opening operations across Latin America before founding the firm’s European business and growing it from zero to more than £3m. She led its global transformation practice, sat on its Global Board, and delivered growth and transformation programmes for global clients. As a non-executive advisor on the board of a professional services consulting firm, she advised on ways of working, go-to-market strategy and commercial growth.

She has also led the shift many firms now face. As co-founder and COO of the fintech Serafin, she moved a people-led services business onto an AI-enabled technology platform, building the operating model behind fivefold revenue growth. More recently, as fractional COO of a deal advisory firm, she redesigned its operating model and internal team. What sets her work apart is the pairing of a managing partner’s commercial discipline with a deep, evidence-based understanding of how leaders and teams actually change. That understanding draws on formal training in compassion science at Stanford and years of mentoring senior leaders. She holds a Sloan MSc in Strategy and Leadership from London Business School, where she was elected Student of the Year, and is the founder of reCompass, her advisory practice for leadership and organisational change.

Tim has spent seventeen years building artificial intelligence into real products, from research labs to enterprise platforms, turning cutting-edge machine learning into systems that work in production and at scale. He has been a research scientist, a lead data scientist, an MLOps engineer and a product director, so he understands both what the technology can do and what it takes to make it deliver inside a business. As founding Lead Data Scientist of Teradata’s Big Data Centre of Excellence he delivered enterprise AI across telco, automotive, pharmaceutical and financial-services clients; at Samsung he patented an adaptive-streaming algorithm eventually deployed across millions of devices; and at EY, as Assistant Director for AI and MLOps, he built the MLOps platform for AI in Financial Services and advised major global banks.

He is the former Director of Product for AI Cloud and Developer Ecosystem at Graphcore, the pioneering UK AI-chip company valued at almost $3bn before its acquisition by SoftBank, where he worked at the frontier of AI, bringing state-of-the-art AI compute into large-scale production systems. He is also an advisor, investor and builder in the technology start-up ecosystem and has founded his own AI-infrastructure venture, so he knows the market for AI tools as a buyer, a backer and a builder, and can help firms tell durable products from passing hype. He holds a Master of Research in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) from the University of Liverpool, is a Microsoft Certified Azure AI Engineer, and contributes to MLCommons’ industry benchmarks for AI safety, training and inference.