I am an entrepreneur, academic and market design economist, Professor of Marketing and Service Systems at WMG, University of Warwick a Turing Fellow. I am the creator and co-inventor of personal data server technology infrastructure for data ownership by individuals themselves and also the CEO of Dataswift.io →

Achievements and Awards

Turing Fellow, Alan Turing Institute, UK; Advisory Board member, Lloyds Register; CTF International Fellow, Service Research Centre, Karlstad, Sweden; Advisory Board member, NHH Centre for Service Innovation, Bergen, Norway; Senior Member, Wolfson College Cambridge; ESRC/InnovateUK Caucus Thought Leader (2016-17); ESRC/NIHR Public Sector Placement Fellow (Apr – Sep 2010); ESRC/AIM Service Fellow (Oct 2008 – Sep 2010); ESRC/AIM Lead Service Fellow (Oct 2008 – Dec 2009)

• In the press →
• A back story of my entrepreneurial days. →
• My bio. →
• My advisory roles and subject matter expertise →
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Researcher

I am an active researcher in the domain of value, pricing, service systems and new economic and business models. I design complex service eco-systems e.g. outcome-based service contracts, markets etc. I did a servsig blog here that will give you an idea of the type of work I do.

My research team website is the Service Systems research group →

Entrepreneur

My research blog is at value-basedservicesystem.blogspot.com →
My papers, talks and presentations at Academia.edu → and research profile here at Researchgate →
My projects are here → The biggest project (and our global social movement to claim your data) is at H.A.T →

– My CV is here →
– Google citations here →
– Research Gate here →

I am the Chief Executive and co-Founder of Dataswift.io. I invest in, and incubate startups through my company www.innovorsa.com providing early stage administrative, financial, business/economic model, technological and funding support together with incubation space in Cambridge and Kuala Lumpur.

Educator

I don’t do any formal teaching but I do conduct some masterclasses

– Masterclass on value creation (1 day) – executives, doctoral & postdoctoral (capacity building) (on demand)
– Masterclass on research for impact (2 days) doctoral & postdoctoral (usually in October)

– Masterclass on creating new markets (2 days) – executives (on demand)
– Masterclass on outcome-based contracts (1-day) – executives (on demand)
– PhD supervision approach and teaching philosophy – Download it here  (important if you are looking to do a PhD with me)

Service

I am the Director of HATLAB at WMG, University of Warwick, a Senior Member of Wolfson College Cambridge and as of 1 October 2018, a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute.

I am also one of the ESRC/InnovateUK Caucus Thought Leaders (see http://innovationcaucus.co.uk/) tasked to integrate Social Science research to assist Innovate UK

Market Design and Micro economic Engineer

I am the product owner, designer and creator of the HAT Microserver as well as the HATDeX platform, a legal, economic, governance and technology platform for data exchange between HATs and websites and applications, operated by Dataswift.