Five years at McKinsey building production AI systems — including one of the first commercial reinforcement learning deployments, for Emirates Team New Zealand's America's Cup campaign. Then co-founder and CTO of Nook, a B2B payments platform built AI-first from day one, with automated fraud monitoring and compliance baked into the core architecture. Nook processed £400m in transactions before being acquired by Modulr in 2026.
Crescent Labs is the product of both: a conviction that the most valuable signals in financial services aren't in text — they're in transaction sequences, ownership graphs, and structured records — and that foundation models trained on that data can replace the collection of narrow, task-specific models most institutions are still maintaining.
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