01 — Currently
Partner at QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey. Founding Partner at Havant Park. A seasoned CTO, founder, advisor and board member. Co-founder of a non-profit that helps young offenders change their lives.
02 — Biography
Joe Pettersson (he/him) lives in London with his partner and their cat, Zelda. He hates writing about himself in the third person. He's a dual Swedish/British citizen, which means that on one side he loves ice hockey and has an uncanny ability with flat-pack furniture, and on the other, he never performs adequately at international football tournaments.
He has been working with technology for more than twenty years, a lot of it with the web (building stuff for it, and building the stuff that powers it) as well as machine learning and distributed systems. Joe is now a Partner at QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey. Before that he was CTO President at Banked, and held senior engineering leadership roles at Permutive, Microsoft and Skype. He has a few patents, has spoken at quite a few conferences and has been known to write (for which he remains profoundly apologetic).
Professionally he cares about open source software, building inclusive teams and being a vocal advocate for Wheaton's Law. Personally: Arsenal Football Club, the art of Caravaggio (chiaroscuro is "his jam") and the 1995 movie Hackers. Outside the day-job he invests in start-ups and co-founded an organisation that helps young offenders and gang members change their lives.