Jonathan helps companies and individuals make sense of digital.  Graduating in Computer Science, Jonathan became an academic in the mid-1980s at Kingston University in London where he taught Artificial Intelligence.  He switched his focus to multimedia, the web, ecommerce and mobile as each wave of technological change took place, and in 1998 was made Professor of e-Business at Kingston.  Jonathan has always combined teaching with starting businesses; in 1993 he started Other Media, a digital agency working with diverse clients from sport, fashion, museums and charities and in 1994 he cofounded Hyper Island, a Swedish school for digital and business transformation.

In 2012 he moved to Singapore to run Hyper Island’s first outpost in Asia and a new part-time Masters supported by the EDB.

Jonathan is a constructivist educator who believes in learning through doing, making and experimentation.   He was awarded an Honorary Professorship by Teesside University Business School in March 2019 and in 2023 an adjunct post at Singapore’s National University of Singapore. 

Among the things he is particularly proud of doing are helping Benetton launch their first web site, launching an ultimately unsuccessful student social network at the end of the 90s with the Virgin Group and help run a pop-up version of Hyper Island in Kosovo after the war.

Jonathan is currently consulting for Coca-Cola, JTI, Arion Bank and HVIN Iceland as well as teaching regularly at MBA level. 

He is particularly interested in scenario planning, prototyping, customer centred design, AI and data and has a condo in Singapore full of Internet of Things sensors.

In 2022 Jonathan joined forces with a band of experienced transformation consultants to form Transformation Partners and is working and speaking globally helping people make sense of the next wave of disruptive digital.