Ross
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Design and product leadership for complex organisations. Twenty years helping teams think more clearly about what they're building — and build it better.
I think in pictures. A Falmouth degree in illustration trained me to make the abstract concrete — to take a confused brief and return something a team can act on. That instinct has never left, whether I'm on paper, in a workshop, or mapping a product system.
I share work early, and I build teams who do the same. At NixonMcInnes I ran sessions in total transparency — showing messy work, inviting hard critique, building in public. That habit still sits at the centre of how I work.
I sit inside delivery teams, not above them. Embedded with engineers before cross-functional was a job description, I learned to speak the language, understand the constraints, and not throw specs over a wall.
I know how large organisations move — and how to move them. Five years at Lloyds taught me that simplicity inside a complex institution requires patience, political fluency, the courage to cut, and a narrative that brings people with you.
I hold the tension between what the business wants and what users actually need — and I don't let either side win too easily. At 4G Capital in East Africa, the stakes were real, the constraints were severe, and the easy answer was rarely the right one.
I change institutions from the inside. At JPMorgan Chase I apply everything above at global scale — pushing unconventional thinking in a place that doesn't naturally reward it, and building things that actually stick.