Oliver
Happy

A hands-on AI product lead.

16+ years scaling B2B fintech, web3 and AI.

Key results

32X

Transaction volume at Form3, about 1M to 32M a month at up to 1,000 TPS, taking Nationwide and Lloyds live on time.

Head of Product: Core, Form3, 2020–2022

$390M

Assets under custody at Qredo, up 95% from $200M, launching network fees, community voting and staking.

Product Director: Platform Core, Qredo, 2022–2023

£40k

ARR at Rightbrain, from £6k in five months, as founding product hire, after redesigning pricing with the founders.

Product Lead, Rightbrain AI, 2026

What I do

My passion is bringing people and technology together to solve problems in scalable ways.

I take regulated B2B platforms from proof of concept to production and from first customer to scale. That means the strategy and the operating model, and also the tickets, the pricing page and the incident call. Recently: pivoting an AI start-up from tasks to agents, designing LLM pipelines constrained by code, policy and security boundaries, and building an AI-native product operating system on Claude and GitHub.

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What colleagues say

“One of the most exceptional product leaders I’ve ever collaborated with. What stood out most was his ability to translate ambiguous business needs into clear product priorities.” Melissa Fisher, Quality and Test Engineering, Vitrifi · LinkedIn

“An excellent head of product, demonstrating a hands on approach, and not being afraid to put in the extra effort when needed.” Scott Mcginn, Test Lead, Vitrifi · LinkedIn

“Rare clarity, rigour and empathy. A hugely positive force in any organisation.” Karen Burr, Chief Growth Officer, Vitrifi · LinkedIn

“When Ollie joined Qredo, taking on our pre-existing replatforming project, things started to make sense, and the machine of delivery finally gained some forward momentum.” Will Rose, Head of Design, Qredo · LinkedIn

“Able to coordinate action across multidisciplinary teams while keeping a cool head and even a pleasant dose of good humour in a high pressure situation.” Alex Crocker, Senior Design Researcher, Qredo · LinkedIn

“I wholeheartedly recommended him for a Product Manager role at Vitrifi. I would love to work with him again.” Juan Pablo Genovese, engineering leader, Form3 and Vitrifi · LinkedIn

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“Ollie is an exceptional product leader with rare clarity, rigour and empathy. A hugely positive force in any organisation – any team would be lucky to have him.”

Karen Burr, Chief Growth Officer, Vitrifi

“I like to think I know what a good product manager looks like. Oliver is a great product manager. He is able to balance the strategic imperatives of the company with the detailed minutiae of the product. Oliver’s style is inclusive, respectful but decisive. He understands that the greatest skill of the best product managers is the ability to communicate – and he does this consummately well.”

Nik Haidar, General Manager, Validis

“When Ollie joined Qredo, taking on our pre-existing re-platforming project, things started to make sense. The structure, organisation, insight and humility that he brought to the table was very much appreciated and without his guiding hand, I don’t believe that V2 of our product would have ever seen the light of day.”

Will Rose, Head of Design, Qredo

“Oliver is one of the few Product people I’ve met that really get platforms and the multiplicative value they offer. The thing I enjoyed most about working with Oliver was his passion, enthusiasm and energy. Like the best Engineers, Oliver just likes to build cool things.”

Grant Smith, Technical Director, 101 Ways

“Ollie advised us through a critical period of PMF experimentation at Thane. His deep product experience and Web3 knowledge helped us think strategically about product direction, ICPs, transitions between approaches, and realistic roadmapping under uncertainty.”

Lena Roesch, CEO and co-founder, Thane

“Working with Oliver was a pleasure, always happy to discuss the rationale for any proposal and take your opinion into account. The QA team were able to produce high quality tests because Oliver was able to create high quality tickets and was happy to clarify where we were unsure of what the requirement was in real time, often under great commercial pressure. Recommended.”

Paul Collingwood, Development Manager, Futrli

Experience

Mar 2026 – Aug 2026

Product Lead, Rightbrain AI. Founding product hire at a seed-stage AI infrastructure start-up: grew ARR £6k to £40k in five months, pivoted from Tasks to Agents, established the product function.

Dec 2024 – Dec 2025

Product Manager, promoted to Head of Product, Vitrifi. Landed the first enterprise customer, a UK-first 10Gb B2B internet service in London Zone 1 on fully automated, zero-touch provisioning. Managed 6 product managers. Administration.

Dec 2023 – Dec 2024

Principal Product Consultant, 101 Ways. Led identity migration for M&S, migrating 23m user credentials; the Onyx platform launch delivered an 8% conversion increase and £7.8m in its first week on CFTO, up 28% year on year.

Earlier roles, 2009 to 2022

Jun 2022 – Sep 2023

Product Director: Platform Core, Qredo. Grew assets under custody 95%, $200M to $390M. Took a company-wide replatform from proof of concept to production in 10 months. Redundancy.

Aug 2020 – May 2022

Senior Product Manager, promoted to Head of Product: Core, Form3. Scaled transaction throughput 32X to 1,000 TPS. Built and led the product organisation from 6 to 93 people, 14 direct reports, £10M R&D budget.

2009 – 2020

Senior Product Manager at Validis; Product Manager at Futrli and Eurotherm by Schneider Electric; Product Marketing Manager at Crunch; Head of Product and Marketing at Xtravirt; Client Liaison, promoted to Head of Product, at BCI Media Group. Download resume.

Advisory

2026

Hashero (cyber security) Founding team advisory on launch strategy, seed round and path to product-market fit.

2026

Augmented Engineering (AI agency) Strategy and go-to-market for an AI build factory.

2025 – 2026

DataBoots (public sector) Strategy and execution for a housing-sector data consultancy.

Earlier advisory, 2022 to 2025

2024 – 2025

Thane (DeFi) ICP and pivot advisory for a two-person team building tokenised influencer index funds: seven personas ranked into a Now, Next, Later roadmap, then a move from a Telegram copy-trading wallet to a standalone web app.

2022 – 2025

Panjea (GameFi) Repositioning, chain migration and fundraising advisory through a multi-year GameFi pivot: a “game of content” mechanic for a crypto-native audience, Aleph Zero to EVM to Sonic, and a VC-to-Angel fundraising shift.

Where I’ve worked

Rightbrain AI Vitrifi 101 Ways Qredo Form3 Validis Futrli by Sage Schneider Electric Crunch Xtravirt BCI Media Group NEC

Clients I’ve helped

M&S Santander Lloyds Banking Group Nationwide Barclays GoCardless N26 PwC esure Group Carnival UK Amazon Mastercard Visa Paymentsense Deloitte GlobalBlock

Podcasts

I’ve been podcasting since 2016 for work and for pleasure. Recent shows include Adventures in AI, Problem Busters, Distributed, Panjcast and the 101 Ways podcast.

Contact me

If you’re hiring, or have a role you’d like to discuss, just drop me an email.