I’m Head of Solution Architecture (EMEA) at Alfa, and product owner for Alfa Recon, our AI solution for data reconciliation during migrations, which recently won AI Solution of the Year at the GlobalData Automotive Finance Awards. I’m also closely involved in developing and rolling out AI across Alfa, including Thea Connect, our MCP server that gives AI agents controlled access to Alfa Systems.

I’ve spent many years leading and advising multi-country implementations across EMEA and the US, focused on architecture across cloud, integration, security and data migration in regulated asset finance. That experience shapes how I think about AI: the hard part is rarely the model. It’s data quality, governance, controls and earning trust. I also spend a lot of my time coaching and mentoring architects and technical leaders at Alfa.