Michael is the Chief Science Officer at Prudential plc and the founder and head of Prudential’s Centre of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence.  He joined Prudential 2016 from Silicon Valley based Pivotal Labs where he built and led the Data Science team. His experience lies in the application of artificial intelligence methods to large-scale, multi-structured data sets, in particular neural network based deep learning techniques. Michael previously founded and sold a London-based machine learning start-up and prior to that was a partner at a major consulting firm.

Michael holds an MBA, a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.