My Story
Built on experience, not theory.
I built one of Australia's early ISPs. Launched one of the country's first e-commerce sites. Brought satellite internet to Australia and sold that venture to Paradox Digital. Scaled a global hosting business. Served as CTO six times, living and working in Australia and Singapore, managing teams across more than 10 countries.
I spent nearly seven years at AWS, starting in Singapore before relocating to Australia and holding responsibility across Asia Pacific and Japan. Those years showed me what high performing technology organisations actually look like at scale.
The gap between a busy technology leader and an effective one is not talent or effort. It is having a clear model for what the position actually demands.
That realisation became the LIT Framework in 2011. Fifteen years of research and six more CTO appointments later it became the Become CTO methodology, built in 2024 and open sourced in January 2026. Free for any technology leader who needs it.
The commercial practice is Techshin Partners. Enabling your organisation to navigate and lead in an AI world. The frameworks, the methodology, the newsletter. I give all of that back to the industry. The practice is where the experience gets applied.