CTO & Founder of ClubPal
CTO at 4 Roads, leading the strategic vision and technical direction to help organisations unlock the full potential of community and digital-first technology. With 20+ years of experience (from developer to solution architect at Verint), I drive innovation, integration, and migration strategies that deliver measurable impact. I'm also the founder of ClubPal, the free platform for volunteer-run sports clubs.
Building ClubPal
Years of running and volunteering at grassroots clubs showed me how much time committees lose to spreadsheets, chasing subs and juggling separate tools. So I founded ClubPal: one platform for membership, sessions, bookings, payments and a club website. It is free for volunteer-run sports clubs, with no subscription and no contracts.
Clubs in running, triathlon, cycling, swimming, netball, hockey, tennis and more use it to handle renewals, safeguarding checks, events and member communication, so volunteers can spend their time on the sport rather than the admin.
Visit ClubPalProjects & Contributions
PowerShell-based tooling for automating the provisioning and management of Telligent Community instances. Used across teams to accelerate development and testing workflows.
Core components and platform extensions for Verint Community, enabling scalable integrations with enterprise systems for clients including Microsoft, Dell, Lenovo, and ARM.
Endurance & Community
15 marathons, 3 Ironman races, and countless sportives and running races. I thrive on pushing limits; the discipline and resilience from endurance sport carries directly into how I approach technology and leadership.
Qualified England Athletics Leader in Running Fitness at Rugby & Northampton AC. I mentor runners of all abilities and directed the Daventry 10k, managing 400+ participants and a volunteer team of 80.
Recent Writing
How I added a production MCP server to ClubPal so club admins can ask Claude about their own club: OAuth 2.1 with dynamic client registration, per-call permissions, an allowlisted query engine over Cosmos DB, and the timezone bug that made an 18:00 session start at 19:00.
How to skip the forced Microsoft Account sign-in during Windows 11 setup and create a local administrator account instead, so your Microsoft Account can be added later as an unprivileged user.
A clear, repeatable checklist for turning on Secure Boot for a Windows 11 VM on Unraid v7.2.3 using Q35 + OVMF TPM by enrolling Microsoft UEFI certificates into OVMF.