Founder • Biotech CEO • Cancer Survivor
Stronger,
Stronger,
for longer.
30 years in business / health & longevity, with a health curveball in between
30 years in business / health & longevity, with a health curveball in between
A sore back I blamed on jiu-jitsu turned out to be cancer. I built the first version of KURK between rounds of chemotherapy. That company now helps thousands of people manage pain naturally.
In my mid-thirties, a sore back I blamed on jiu-jitsu turned out to be a golf-ball-sized tumour at the base of my spine. B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Going through treatment, I went looking for anything that might help. Turmeric kept coming up. It took me weeks to learn that curcumin barely absorbs when you swallow it. That fact is not contested in the science. It also does not appear on a single label in the aisle.
That gap between what the science says and what the industry sells, became the work. I built the first version of KURK between rounds of chemotherapy.
I'm a company builder. KURK is my twelfth business across thirty years. My co-founder and I made a pact to keep going until we are a hundred. That is the whole point: stronger, for longer.
Based in London.
Over thirty years I have built and sold businesses across two countries, survived cancer, and competed in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. There is no single story — there is a life deliberately lived in multiple directions at once.
Early work with Specsavers including with the IBM Watson team on using AI to detect eye disease sooner.
Founder and CEO of KURK, in research partnership with Swansea University Medical School.
A serial founder across two countries, from fitness franchises to clinical-grade science.
16 years of MMA & BJJ, founded London's premier MMA gym ELEVATE, Awarded Black Belt.
Founding Chairman of REORG, the charity using jiu-jitsu in rehabilitation.
A plant science lab in London, founded by Dr. Harrison Weisinger and Trent Scanlen, two cancer survivors, built on the conviction that nature offers solutions for longevity challenges.
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