Harry Weber-Brown joins Smarter Contracts as Commercial Director

Smarter Contracts, the builders of the innovative consent and permissions management platform, Pulse, are proud to announce Harry Weber-Brown has joined the team as their new Commercial Advisor.

The arrival of Weber-Brown further enhances and Smarter Contracts knowledge and experience of the open data economy and follows on from other recent world class appointments that Smarter Contracts has been able to make following their successful raise of £2.65 million in November 2023. This includes other experts within Open Data, such as Dr Leda Glyptis, Ghela Boskovich and Jamie Leach.

Weber-Brown is the former Chief Executive of The Investing and Savings Alliance (TISA), which is a key UK open data initiative that allows individuals to share their savings, investment, and pension account data with third parties to access new products and services. As a not-for-profit membership organisation, Weber-Brown was responsible for all areas of the business.

This included supporting their members in building strategic policy initiatives that influence policy markers regarding the financial wellbeing of UK consumers, providing technical support to their members on a range of operational and regulatory issues targeted at improving infrastructure and processes, and helping members transform the industries architecture in building digital transformation initiatives that drive innovation. Whilst at TISA, members that Weber-Brown was responsible for working with included the likes of Fidelity, Aviva, Barclays, and Morningstar, whilst as a core open data initiative, Weber-Brown also worked with members of government, regulatory bodies, and key stakeholders of the wider open data economy.

Prior to working at TISA, Weber-Brown has served as the programme manager for a digital identity project that was funded by the European Commission’s Innovation and Networks Agency, which saw him coordinating the build of a reusable ID management platform with the likes of HSBC, Barclays, Government Digital Service and Orange. Prior to this Weber-Brown spent several years providing strategic business consulting services to start-ups and established organisations such as the BBC, Ask.com and Capita. With more than 30 years’ experience behind him, Weber-Brown has demonstrable executive experience covering strategic planning, developing new digital services and business development and consulting.

On his appointment, Weber-Brown comments: “I am so pleased to be joining Smarter Contracts as the newest addition to their team. I was instantly attracted by the Pulse platform as it enables consumers to better control their personal data and helps clients put trust at the heart of their business. I want to be a part of their success. I look forward to getting started and working with Wayne and the rest of the team.”

Wayne Lloyd, Founder and CEO of Smarter Contracts comments, “The appointment of Harry is yet another signal of intent that demonstrates how compelling a proposition Pulse is in the eyes of highly respected and experienced members of the Open Data Economy. As the former CEO of TISA, Harry provides us with a wealth of knowledge and experience regarding the challenges organisations are faced with when it comes to opening their data up to third parties. Harry’s knowledge, experience and network will not only allow us to accelerate our growth, but it will also inform the development of existing and future product features that we intend to announce over the coming weeks and months ahead.”