I built and ran the AI function inside Informa PLC, the world's largest events business, as Chief AI Officer. Through Breslin Ventures I now advise a small number of boards and commercial leaders on AI strategy that survives contact with a real organisation. I am the co-Founder of Amplifi, an applied AI consultancy.
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That is the sector I ran AI inside, and it is the sector I advise. I know how these businesses make money, where their data actually lives, and why most AI programmes in them stall. If your business sells content, connection, intelligence or audiences, I have already sat where your leadership team is sitting. I advise from experience, not from a methodology.
Ongoing counsel to CEOs, CCOs and boards navigating AI decisions with real money attached. Strategy and operating model, proposition development, build or buy calls, governance that is enforced in the architecture rather than the contract, and the honest read on what your teams are telling you.
I arrive with a point of view, not a list of questions. Engagements are retained, senior and deliberately few, because the value is judgement and judgement does not scale.
Non-executive and advisory board positions where AI is material to the strategy. Current board member at Bridged Media, a Techstars agentic AI company. Selective by design.
Keynotes and executive briefings on enterprise AI for board and leadership audiences. Represented by the London Speaker Bureau. Practitioner content, no theatre.
For senior leaders taking on AI accountability for the first time. Commercial and specific, grounded in having held the role. Limited places alongside advisory work.
Trained 500 people in advanced AI across a European group. Effectiveness and participant feedback were rated excellent.
Advisor to the Media & Entertainment practice of a global technology services firm: accelerating internal AI capability, supporting client AI enablement, and shaping new market propositions.
Go-to-market strategy and executive materials for the commercial leadership of a global professional body, built for CEO and board audiences.
Investment banks · confidential
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At Informa I was one of the first Chief AI Officers in the FTSE 100, responsible for AI across the world's largest events and B2B information business. I built the function, made the investment cases, managed the board, lived with the consequences of the decisions and learned which parts of the AI conversation are real and which are noise.
That is the foundation I advise from. Not a framework, not a benchmark deck, but the direct experience of making enterprise AI work inside a large, complicated, commercially demanding organisation.
Alongside advisory work I sit on the board of Bridged Media, write regularly on enterprise AI, and speak internationally on what AI actually changes for established businesses.
I am a regular opinion contributor to Arabian Gulf Business Insight on AI strategy and Gulf markets, and I publish weekly on enterprise AI at LinkedIn. If you want to know how I think before we speak, start there.
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Disclosure. I am also co-founder of Amplifi, an applied AI consultancy. Breslin Ventures engagements are personal, contracted separately, and kept distinct from Amplifi's work. About Amplifi.
Tell me what you are navigating and what a good outcome looks like. I reply to every serious enquiry, personally.
