Twenty-five years turning complex technology into things that reach a market.

Henry is a senior innovation, product and ecosystem leader with 25+ years' experience across defence, national security, transport innovation, AI, autonomy and public-purpose technology.

His career has run across three worlds that rarely meet in one person — large-scale industry delivery at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence; national innovation and policy work across modes at Connected Places Catapult; and active engagement with the academic and research community through the University of Southampton, the UK Trustworthy Autonomous Systems programme, and the UK Responsible AI programme.

That combination shapes how Henry advises boards and senior leaders. Most NEDs and advisers bring depth in one of those domains — strategy, risk, or network — and read across the others. Henry's value sits in the seams between them: in the questions where the strategy question, the risk question and the route-to-market question are the same question, and where judgement needs to come from someone who has delivered, navigated the policy and ecosystem, and worked the research side from inside.

Affiliations represent Henry's experience and roles. They are not endorsements of Meriva Impact by those organisations.