Technology change that actually lands.

About

A connector at the centre of government technology.

I work as a Business Relationship Manager at HM Treasury, partnering with the Government Actuary's Department, the Office for Budget Responsibility and the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority. The job, done properly, is translation: sitting between the people who need things and the people who build them, and making sure change is driven by the business rather than done to it.

Departments rarely struggle because the technology is bad. They struggle because nobody owns the relationship between ambition and delivery. That relationship is what I manage, from everyday service demand through to how the Treasury Group approaches AI adoption, including directing the Treasury Innovation Day and the Digital Excellence Series.

The route here was not typical. I grew up in care in County Durham, and joined the Treasury's new Darlington Economic Campus through the Civil Service Care Leaver Internship Scheme two days after graduating. Within three years I was ranked 6th in the public sector in the AI100 UK, named in Apolitical's Government AI 100, and recognised as a Global Top BRM by the BRM Institute.

That background is not a footnote to the technology work. Growing up inside systems designed around you, rather than with you, teaches you exactly what to look for when governments start automating decisions. It is why I chair the Cross-Government Care Leavers Network, why I publish research on social mobility policy, and why accessibility runs through everything I do professionally.

I write GOV×BRM, a biweekly newsletter on business relationship management in government read by over 700 practitioners in the UK and internationally, and I am a Professional Member of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.

Experience

• Business Relationship Manager (Digital Business Partner)

  HM Treasury · 2024 to present

  Lead BRM for GAD, the OBR and NISTA. Directed the Treasury Innovation Day and Digital Excellence Series, led the HM Treasury Innovation Awards, and presented over 60 technology change proposals to investment committees. Departmental accessibility champion.

• Assistant Private Secretary to the Group Chief Digital & Information Officer

  Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · 2023 to 2024

  Managed the Group CDIO's strategic agenda across ministerial and Director General networks. Orchestrated the SCS Digital Excellence Programme for 500+ senior leaders and digital upskilling initiatives reaching over 2,000 staff.

• Executive Assistant to Deputy Directors

  Department for Culture, Media and Sport · 2023

  Presented lived experience evidence to the cross-government ministerial board on care leavers and authored the policy case for including care leavers in Equality Impact Assessments.

• Correspondence & Innovation Officer

  HM Treasury · 2022 to 2023

  Won the HM Treasury Professional Award for Innovation for implementing robotic process automation across ministerial correspondence workflows. The start of a career built on releasing human capacity for higher-value work.

Recognition

• Global Top BRM · BRM Institute2026
• AI100 UK, ranked 6th in the Public Sector · Digital Leaders2025
• Government AI 100 · Apolitical2025
• Innovation Award · HM Treasury2025
• Rising Star, finalist · North East Tech Awards2025
• Diversity & Inclusion, finalist · The Northern Echo BUSINESSiQ Awards2025
• Digital Leader Top 100 UK · Digital Leaders2024
• Professional Award for Innovation · HM Treasury2022

Research

Credentials