Role: CEO, Ampito Group
What’s been your business high point of the last 12 months?
Kickstarting our ten-year growth strategy for Ampito Group. Expanding our high-frequency trading networks and AI infrastructure globally alongside this has been exciting and challenging in equal measure – and a real learning curve for all of us.
Name one thing your company is looking to achieve in 2026
Accelerating our US expansion and cementing our position as the go-to partner for complex AI infrastructure and SD-WAN solutions.
What keeps you awake at night as a partner leader?
The UK economy, frankly. The technology rarely worries me – it’s the wider economic picture and making sure we keep pushing Ampito forward through it that keeps me up.
Is AI being over-hyped?
The consumer side is noisy, but the infrastructure side is very real. The enterprise networking and high-frequency trading solutions we deploy are proving their ROI every single day.
What’s been your most successful internal AI project to date, and why?
Automating our complex global logistics and proposal generation. It’s successful because it delivers immediate operational efficiency – giving our teams more time to focus on strategic client relationships instead of admin.
Can you share a surprising prediction about how UK IT channel partners or the UK IT channel will evolve over the next 5 years?
I think the channel will increasingly reward deep specialism. The partners who can deliver complex AI and networking infrastructure at global scale will pull ahead – but there’ll always be room for those who know exactly what they’re brilliant at and stick to it.
Which tech gizmo (hardware or software) could you not function without?
My phone, hands down. It’s the world’s smallest, most demanding office – and it never closes.
Which three famous people, dead or alive, would you invite to a dinner party?
Jürgen Klopp for the Liverpool FC stories, Ferry Porsche for the sheer engineering obsession and Jensen Huang to discuss the future of tech.
If you had a warning label, what would it say?
“Caution: moves fast, asks ‘why not?’, and will turn your coffee break into a five-year plan.”
Which tech figurehead has impressed you the most this year, and why?
Larry Ellison. Written off more times than I can count, and yet he’s dragged Oracle right back into the centre of the AI gravity – proof that hunger beats age, and that the challenger mindset never really retires.
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