Principal

David Adams. Founder of DSC in 1996, and the person doing the work.

2019 to 2026

Chief Technology Officer, Atheneum Partners. A 600-person private equity backed research technology business. Scaled the technology organisation from 5 to 92 people across London, Berlin, Lahore and Shanghai, supporting 5X revenue growth. Owned Engineering, Data, AI, Product, IT, Business Intelligence, Data Governance and PMO.

2015 to 2019

CTO and co-founder, Chime Advisors. Acquired by a strategic competitor.

Earlier ventures

Co-founder of Krescendo and eXtraSheet, two fintech ventures, both exited by trade sale.

1996

Founded DSC, the trading entity for the interim, fractional and advisory work described on this site.

Governance

Chair of a governing board, a registered charity with a £7M budget and a £25M balance sheet. Board member, Atheneum Partners.

Education

BEng Electronic Engineering with Computer Science, University College London.

Current R&D

PureSignal, a full-stack multi-LLM application built and deployed single-handedly in 2026, covering model routing, failure handling and unit economics. QVM Trader, a multi-asset portfolio management system with agentic AI.

Both are research that keeps the practice current. Neither is a product.