Brian Spurling

Twenty years turning complex data into usable products for social and environmental change.

Background

Data practitioner, product leader, behavioural change specialist, activist. Currently UK Managing Director of a climate tech business.

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Senior leadership and hands-on delivery

Senior product and commercial leader with a technical foundation. Comfortable at the board table and in the codebase.

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Product strategy and behavioural design

Strategic product owner, experienced in applying data and behavioural science to product development, campaigning and advocacy.

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Practical AI adoption

Expert using AI to transform and automate business processes, working at the cutting edge of AI deployment. E.g. building a 14-agent, fully automated outreach pipeline, up and running months before Salesforce released their own multi-agent orchestration.

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Career-long focus on social and environmental change

Two decades working on social and environmental change - climate tech, environmental and political campaigning, and third sector data. An excellent grasp of how these organisations think, the constraints they face, and what good looks like.

My career

I got my technical grounding in enterprise data consultancy, before finding my way - via my own sustainability startup - into the social impact space. I've been building data products and leading campaigns there ever since.

Climate tech 2019-present
Head of Product / UK Managing Director

Built Cogo from pre-product startup to enterprise SaaS business - launching the world's first bank-integrated carbon tracker. Returned as UK Managing Director to launch a home electrification platform, and built the AI agents that run its outreach pipeline.

Third sector 2016-2019
Data Architect & Product Manager

Third sector digital product work and freelance data strategy. Self-serve data platforms for NGOs, e.g. UNICEF (washdata.org), PNGi, and IUCN, and data strategy for the Children's Commissioner, Children in Need, and Addaction.

Enterprise data 2006-2014
Senior Consultant, Enterprise Data

Business intelligence, data warehousing, and large-scale enterprise delivery, e.g. leading a 30-person team to establish Ticketmaster as a data-first business.

Campaigning 2015-present
Campaign Leadership

Social, political and environmental advocacy, including trustee and data lead for the 50:50 Parliament campaign. Senior operational role at Extinction Rebellion, coordinating UK-wide operations and data-driven campaigning.

2003-2006
BSc Computer Science (1st) Durham University