Gwyn Slee

About

Gwyn Slee

I run G-Star Intelligence, an independent advisory practice I launched in October 2025. I provide fractional and interim CTO leadership, exit-readiness counsel and production AI delivery to startups, founders and PE-backed businesses.

The credibility comes from the last stretch of my career. In my last executive role I owned technology across 26 countries for a PE-backed pharmaceutical logistics business, reporting to the CEO, through a four-year transformation and a premium exit. I was the sole technology counterpart to the buy-side auditors. Then I stayed to own the integration.

Before that I ran engineering for a global automotive services group, building and running the systems behind more than £100M in annual revenue, and scaled the learning platform behind a global technology company's digital skills programme.

I started as an engineer. Seven years building GMP-regulated clinical trials software for a global life sciences company is where I learned that an audit trail is a design decision, not a paperwork exercise.

And the people side is never an afterthought for me. The teams I have built matter as much as the platforms they delivered.

I am based in Horsham, West Sussex, and work across London, the South East and remotely.

Credentials

  • B.Eng. (Hons) Product Design and Manufacture, Loughborough University
  • Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance
  • Board Advisor, Connectd.com

Career

  1. Oct 2025 to presentFounder, Fractional CTO and AI Strategy AdvisorG-Star Intelligence
  2. Jan 2022 to Sep 2025Director of Digital and Data Solutions, Global Head of Digital TransformationTower Cold Chain
  3. Nov 2018 to Sep 2021Head of Engineering, UK Technology SLTCox Automotive
  4. Oct 2016 to Nov 2018Head of Development, Data SolutionsCox Automotive
  5. May 2015 to May 2016Head of IT, SLTAvado
  6. Apr 2013 to Apr 2015IT and Software Development ManagerKelly's Storage
  7. May 2006 to Mar 2013Lead Software Developer, then Lead Business AnalystThermoFisher Scientific
  8. Sep 2001 to Apr 2006Knowledge Engineer, RotterdamJDR Cable Systems

Speaking and writing

At DTX Manchester 2026 I moderated two panels. On the main stage, "Progress at a Price. Addressing the AI Elephant in the Room" with professors of AI from Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Salford and NatWest Group's AI and Data Ethics Lead. And "The Strategic Engineer", on translating technical excellence into business impact.

The main-stage panel was covered by Business Live. I also write for boards and PE sponsors on AI and technology leadership, collected under Insights.

Gwyn Slee moderating the Progress at a Price panel on the main stage at DTX Manchester 2026, with the panellists and the event screen behind
Moderating "Progress at a Price", DTX Manchester 2026. Photo, Reach plc.

Start with the problem, not a job title.

Tell me what is happening, what is coming and what nobody in the business can currently answer.

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