Enabling Investors, Boards, and PortCos

Guiding investment decisions, steering portfolio companies, and building cloud-driven value across the portfolio

Cloud Lighthouse helps investors and private equity firms assess technological capability when making investment decisions, steer portfolio companies, build + execute a roadmap to absorb mergers and acquisitions into existing cloud estates, and invest smartly in cloud + AI technology to build value in the portfolio ahead of future events. We create replicable business value through cloud technology, turning data into an asset, architecting and building future-ready cloud ecosystems.

✔ Investment and board advisory

✔ Building value in portfolio companies

✔ Board of directors and non-executive service

✔ Angel investment

  • Guiding the CIO of a multi-billion industrial utilities firm absorbing multiple acquisitions, developing a future-ready Cloud ecosystem to build value ahead of new investment rounds.

  • Diversified a global, Forrester-ranked, PE-backed software firm, helping them to achieve revenue goals and close multiple multi-million $£€ deals across their fledgling Cloud Service portfolio.

  • Originated a business applications practice inside of a leading Microsoft Azure partner with new PE investment, adding $12 million (from $0) in revenue inside of twelve months.

  • Managed corporate strategy for a firm owned by private equity, building an entirely new practice as they grew to $250 million annual revenue on engagements worldwide.

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  • Investor Advisory

    Understanding the technology and industry landscape, coaching non-technical financial decision makers, and evaluating current technical capabilities through the life of the transaction

  • Cloud Strategy

    Guiding IT and business leaders, crafting executive vision, prioritizing workloads that build value, and maximizing the value of technology investments via ecosystem-oriented architecture

  • AI Strategy

    Crafting and executing future-ready enterprise AI strategy with an emphasis on data consolidation and readiness, incremental and differential AI, and scaling AI across the organization

Insights for investors

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From Evaluation to Mitigation: Building Safer Agents
From Evaluation to Mitigation: Building Safer Agents

As AI agents become more capable, measuring and mitigating risk is more important than ever. In this episode of Human in the Loop, our guest Mehrnoosh Sameki discusses the shift from evaluation to mitigation, the new open-source measurement framework ASSERT, and the role of agent control systems in building safer and more trustworthy agents.

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MCP, Copilot Studio & Responsible AI
MCP, Copilot Studio & Responsible AI

This episode explores the intersection of Model Context Protocol (MCP), Copilot Studio, and Responsible AI (RAI). We discuss how MCP is shaping the next generation of AI integrations, how organizations can build powerful agents with Copilot Studio, and why responsible AI principles must remain at the center of agent design, deployment, and governance. A practical discussion for developers, makers, and AI leaders looking to build intelligent systems that are both capable and trustworthy.

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The 3-year Implementation: Lessons from the AI Front Line
The 3-year Implementation: Lessons from the AI Front Line

This episode looks at AI in the enterprise through the lens of real conferences, customers and partner pain.
What happens when AI becomes part of how an organisation operates?
Andrew argues that many organisations are approaching AI like a traditional software project and that assumption is already creating problems. The real challenge is not deployment. It’s governance, operating models, and deciding where AI belongs inside the business.

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Data Poisoning - The Hidden Risk Shaping AI
Data Poisoning - The Hidden Risk Shaping AI

This episode explores data poisoning and its growing impact on AI systems, from model backdoors to agent memory risk. Ioana and Chris chat with Microsoft's Giorgio Severi about how adversaries manipulate data, why these attacks are hard to detect, and what it takes to build layered defenses that keep AI systems reliable, safe, and trustworthy.

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The Frontier Campus: Whitepaper Synopsis
The Frontier Campus: Whitepaper Synopsis

Eighty percent of AI pilots fail to scale or deliver real business value. This as a call to action for C-level leaders, enterprise architects, and others charged with guiding their organization through the opening vistas of the Age of AI. It highlights a paradox we face today, that despite unprecedented advances and investment in AI, most enterprises struggle to move beyond experimental pilots to meaningful, production-scale AI solutions.

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The days of miracle and wonder; AI is the long distance call.
The days of miracle and wonder; AI is the long distance call.

The Boy in the Bubble was the first track of Paul Simon's Graceland, in my view, the greatest musical album released in my lifetime. The year was 1986.

Lately I find myself quietly singing Bubble's refrain.

“These are the days of miracle and wonder. This is the long distance call The way the camera follows us in slo-mo, the way we look to us all. The way we look to a distant constellation that's dying in a corner of the sky. These are the days of miracle and wonder, and don't cry, baby, don't cry, don't cry.”

The genius of Simon's lyrics is in the juxtaposition of tragedy and progress. Nearly 40 years later, the line "these are the days of miracle and wonder" comes to mind when contemplating the nature of this moment in humanity's technological progress. Yet, consider the song's final verse.

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A Call to Arms for Trustworthy AI: Can we trust AI?
A Call to Arms for Trustworthy AI: Can we trust AI?

People and organizations around the world are asking, ”Can we trust artificial intelligence?”. Sure, can we trust AI to be responsible, to generate accurate, trustworthy responses to our prompts? But look more deeply and you will find that truly Trustworthy AI is about so much more. Do we trust that our investments in AI are wise, that we are not throwing effort and money after nonsense? Do we trust that we are moving rigorously, purposefully, and efficiently towards AI’s promised land?

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Dynamics 365 and Power Platform User Group 🇬🇧 | Keynote
Dynamics 365 and Power Platform User Group 🇬🇧 | Keynote

Our Chief Operating Officer, Keegan Chambers, is delivering a keynote session at the all-day London event hosted by the Dynamics 365 and Power Platform User Group.

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European Power Platform Conference 🇩🇰 | Keynote Session
European Power Platform Conference 🇩🇰 | Keynote Session

Our Chief AI Officer, Chris Huntingford, is delivering a keynote session at the European Power Platform Summit 2026. With over 2,000 attendees, the event combines in-depth learning, meaningful connections, and inspiration — all set in the vibrant city of Copenhagen.

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Dynamics Minds 2026 🇸🇮 | AI Strategy, Agentic AI and HCP
Dynamics Minds 2026 🇸🇮 | AI Strategy, Agentic AI and HCP

The Dynamics Minds conference takes place in Slovenia from 25-27 May 2026. A Dynamics 365 and Power Platform community conference, where brilliant minds meet, mingle and share.

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East of England Power Platform Summit 🇬🇧 | Keynote Session
East of England Power Platform Summit 🇬🇧 | Keynote Session

Our Chief AI Officer, Chris Huntingford, is delivering the opening keynote for the inaugural East of England Power Platform Summit 2026. The East of England’s flagship conference complete with two days of sessions, workshops, and networking.

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