Jerome is a constantly curious individual that's passionate about creating a positive impact on people's lives. He loves getting to the core of a problem and developing innovative ways to solve them.

With his broad career experience as a consultant in New Zealand, Australia and Canada he employs a multi-disciplinary approach using research, data, insights & everything he can get his hands on to understand customers, users and markets to create a strong business with great products and experiences.

After completing his masters in business at the University of Auckland he’s founded Maia, an artificial intelligence startup. At Maia they’re training an AI to interpret human emotion as accurately as a clinical therapist would. The potential applications of this technology are wide with many commercial opportunities for an AI with emotional intelligence but the initial focus is on creating much needed and improved mental health applications.