Tony Fish is a serial entrepreneur, author and strategic provocateur who has never had a job. He left school without basic qualifications due to severe dyslexia, secured a university place on his own terms, and in 1991 launched one of the UK's first online home shopping services, listed on OFEX, with a first exit by 1995. Thirty years on, the pattern is the same: he arrives somewhere before everyone else, makes sense of what is happening, and moves on before the trend becomes consensus.

That 30-year track record of foresight has placed him ahead of the early web, open source, mobile, digital privacy and AI ethics, not by predicting trends, but by noticing the structural shifts that sit underneath them. His current focus is the question most organisations are not yet asking: what does governance have to become when no human made the decision? He works with boards and C-suite leaders to surface the questions their models, KPIs and frameworks have quietly optimised away.

Tony has founded, co-founded, sold and listed many businesses across venture capital, health, finance, media, mobile, sport and education, including serving as General Partner of a fund. He is a Visiting Fellow at Henley Business School for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Entrepreneur in Residence at Bradford School of Management, and teaches AI and Ethics at both the London Business School and the London School of Economics. A European Commission Expert for Big Data, he holds an MBA and the professional designations CEng, FIET, FBCS, FCIM and FRSA, has spoken at over 300 events worldwide, and has authored six books, most recently Decision-Making in Uncertain Times.

Eight days a month, Tony does community handyperson work for the local hospice, Help the Aged and the local repair shop. It is not a hobby. It is how he stays close to the ground that most boardrooms have lost sight of.