An abridged history:

I started in the family company one year before it became public and floated on the full UK stock exchange. The firm was Densitron and it was a global electronics company. Despite it being my major, I wasn’t that interested in electronics, so I soon transferred to developing software for the mainframe later on migrating to DEC mini computers. I realised I was never going to be the best coder, so I become more involved in infrastructure.

In 1989, I discovered the Internet, I became involved in a group that campaigned to allow commercial traffic on the public Internet. Members of that group went on to create much of the commercial Internet we see today.

In 1994, I started a business developing and hosting websites, this grew rapidly into a data centre business and eventually caught the eye of the city transforming the company into a dot com business, inflating the share price 10 fold.

After the dot com crash in 2000, the share price normalised and we became a target for takeover. The takeover happened in 2002/3, so we sold our shares and proceeded to support several buyouts.

Since 2003, we have supported many businesses from Asia and Europe in many diverse markets such as Manufacturing, Electronics, Computers, Internet and Software. Some have gone on to become public, others are thriving as private companies, some faltered and were sold. All still exist and have had success.

We exited the last of these companies in 2012 and since then, have been active in “external investing”. We offered trade finance and board expertise to mid cap companies and invested in Tech startups up until 2020.

Current Activities

I first heard about Bitcoin in 2012, but didn’t pay any attention to it until 2016.

By 2020 my previous investment business had been on hold due to the pandemic, so I had plenty of time to research Bitcoin, which I did until the start of 2026. I never re-opened my investment business or looked back.

In September 2023, after scribbling down some notes, I found myself writing a book, which I published on Amazon in October 2023. The book covered the technology, as well as the philosophy, economics and politics of Bitcoin. This book now serves as a foundation, when asked questions by friends, family or people I meet.

Around the middle of 2025, after having ignored AI for many years, I finally started engaging with ChatGPT. First as a tool, later as an introduction to the technology. I started discovering how to develop, build and train “Large Language Models” and the mechanics and infrastructure of LLMs.

I quickly realised that my path along AI was going to differ from most, as I was looking at how to augment or replace a human brain. This brain I named “Brian” and have been developing ever since.