Anna Shipman is an experienced CTO with 10 years of technology leadership and over two decades of software engineering experience. Most recently she was CTO at Kooth Digital Health, an AIM-listed company delivering digital mental health for 1.3 million young people in the UK and US. At Kooth, she launched a new US product that now represents 70% of the company's revenue, and delivered its first AI strategy, taking AI to production in a regulated mental health environment.
Prior to Kooth she was Technical Director for Customer Products at the Financial Times, overseeing FT.com, the FT apps and other digital customer-facing products. Her team helped the FT hit a million paying subscribers. She previously worked at the Government Digital Service in many roles, including launching GOV.UK. She speaks at conferences and writes regularly about technology, strategy and leadership on her blog, JFDI.