About Looking Forward

Looking Forward explores systems change for healthy longevity through the lens of economics, innovation, startups, AI, and impact investing.

Published weekly as “Four For Friday” it targets impact-minded innovators globally, with focus on the USA, Australia, Japan, the UK and Europe.

It’s a place for optimistic yet practical ideas for navigating demographic transformation - a topic I’ve been following since 2012. A central thread: making communities economically sustainable in systems that undervalue what they provide. See the agenda for detailed topics of interest.

About me

I’m a Brit, and have spent half my life abroad. After university, I worked on European-American trade policy in Brussels, got an MBA in the US, then spent six years riding Nokia’s rise and fall. Since then I’ve consulted through Fordcastle, an impact-focused advisory firm and venture builder.

From 2012 I focused on healthy aging, co-founding Aging2.0 as a global network with chapters in 100+ cities before it was acquired in 2022. That gave me experience running big events, corporate innovation programs and an accelerator program. But more important, it gave me an appetite for delivering mission-driven systems change in our increasingly complex, interconnected and fragile world. Am now exploring longevity’s next evolution through technology and impact frameworks.

Via Fordcastle, I’ve worked with US and Japanese companies on healthy longevity strategies, including SOMPO Digital Lab, the Institute on Aging, Direct Supply, TOTO and IHG.

My wife Caitlin noticed I constantly use “looking forward” in conversation and email sign-offs. Despite the questionable grammar, she thought it made a good newsletter name. I hope you agree.