Experience only matters if it changes what you can see.
Antony Draper. 11 years military. Signals intelligence and electronic warfare alongside UK special forces. Building capability under pressure where decisions had real consequences.
11 years military operations. £750m portfolio oversight. £300m verified savings.
After the military, enterprise programme management at HP and Capita. Both roles taught the same lesson. Scale exposes structure. What works at one level breaks at the next.
The context is different. The structural condition is the same.
My job is to make the invisible structure visible before someone else does it for you.
Operating experience
Enterprise scale — £750m portfolio, central government and defence. £300m operational savings programmes. Government capability, intelligence sector.
International — Enterprise energy, Kuwait and Qatar. Digital transformation, Middle East. Market entry, UK to Gulf States.
Scaling businesses — E-commerce, distributed team, East Africa. Tax advisory, US market, 3x revenue. Real estate platform, retention operations.