What I'm focused on right now.
What I’m focused on right now.
Last update: June 2026. Winchester, UK.
Practising
Fab Campaigns is my advisory practice, and the platform through which the partnership methodology gets applied. Board-level governance, partnership architecture and licensed frameworks deployed with regulated institutions in the UK and Italy. Three of those frameworks (Partnership Stage Gate, FabCube governance, the Information Classification Protocol) are being built into assets that can be licensed beyond the institutions they started in.
Active advisory conversations across the UK, Italy, Scandinavia and Africa. New UK engagements opening as Q3 begins.
Building
Smart Mountains is entering its seeding phase this summer. Environmental intelligence infrastructure for Alpine territories. The Pilot Sites methodology has been field-tested; the work now is governance, cap table, investor relations and territorial stakeholder management, all of it stress-tested against operational reality rather than left on paper.
Imprese Favolose, the Alpine ESG incubator co-developed with Centro Consorzi in the Dolomites, is moving from framework to first cohort. The institutional base is widening. Keeping talent in the valleys rather than exporting it, and building the infrastructure for innovation where the gap is widest, remains the core proposition.
Both ventures are at the stage where the next move matters more than the last document.
Writing
One post a week, every Monday. Monday Momentum: intentions declared before the week takes over. Occasionally a Friday Field Note, when something from the trail or the crag asks to be worked out before Monday comes round.
The Ideas series publishes when the question is big enough. The most recent piece took the Arcadian vellum as an operating philosophy: what it means to approach a problem before the categories have formed, read through Alpine venture-building and Imprese Favolose. More brewing.
Moving
Rebuilding. A shoulder injury from a climbing move means the season looks different this year: physiotherapy first, conservative, phased. The body is giving clear signals and I am listening to them rather than overriding them.
What has not stopped: easy sessions at the crag with people who matter. A’s first 6c lead indoors. The plan is to take that outside on 7a before summer ends. Watching two of my daughters climb the same route together is one of those moments that does not need annotating.
Mountain biking has come back properly. Running is regular and social. The Fab Rides community is active around Winchester, with summer trips already in the diary.
Exploring
Learning what it means to contribute at board level. Not signalling a search; building the understanding of what genuine governance contribution looks like, what boards actually need from the people around the table, and where the gaps sit that my background is built to fill.
This is as much about giving back as moving forward. I am sharing what I have learned with peers working through the same questions, and trying to be useful to the organisations I already work with before any formal appointment exists. Showing up with something to offer before there is a title attached to it.
The positioning that guides the learning: strategy and commercialisation in regulated, data-intensive environments. That is the thread running through thirty years across Vodafone, Digi.me and everything Fab Campaigns has built since. Less a credential than an orientation: the kind of problem I am good at.
Two directions feel alive right now. The Dolomites and Veneto: business transformation at the scale of a whole territory, where the mountains and the communities that live in them are the brief. And London, where the institutions are, where the decisions get made, where the networks compound. This week I cycled between appointments past Buckingham Palace, Number 10 and Parliament. There is something about moving through that geography on a bike, slow enough to feel it, fast enough to keep going, that makes the ambition feel less abstract and more like a place you are actually heading toward.
If we haven’t spoken in a while, this is the fastest way to know where I am.
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