The members

Andy is a Chartered Accountant by trade and spent 12 years working at Deloitte, one of the Big 4 Global Professional Services Firms. During his time at Deloitte Andy was a founding member of the Propel by Deloitte team, the cloud-first accounting team for startups and high growth businesses. Andy was responsible for growing the team to fifty and driving revenue from zero to £4m over a 24 month period.

As part of his time working with Startups, Andy spent three months in California to better understand the complexity of VC finance and Silicon Valley before returning to the UK. It was this period that inspired him to found Honest Mobile with a School Friend and the business has been in operation since January 2019.

David is an urban technology and smart cities specialist, working with cities, governments and startups around the world to develop innovative new solutions to overcome key challenges. 

He currently works as the Head of Urban Connected Communities for the 5G Testbed & Trials team at DCMS, and as Head of Cities for PUBLIC, a GovTech venture firm, leading the successful UrbanChallenge programme. 

Previously he was Director for Data & Demonstrators at the Future Cities Catapult, a UK Government backed innovation centre of excellence, leading a team of data scientists and urban technologists. Before that he led Nesta’s cities work in their Government Innovation department, and before worked on Innovate UK’s £35m Future Cities Demonstrator Programme. He is also a CABE Built Environment Expert for the Design Council, offering his expertise in urban development and renewal. He’s a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Chartered Engineer with the Royal Academy of Engineer.