Adam is the founder of Scarlatti, a research, evaluation and analytics company with 30 staff and four offices around the country. Despite the company’s growing size, he is still hands-on at the wheel, with his work spanning most of the areas that Scarlatti operates in including programme design, social and market research, workforce research, impact modelling and more recently, AI in education.

Before this, Adam was Chief Operating Officer of Celentis, a commercial science company owned by AgResearch, and before that a consultant for leading strategy consultancy McKinsey & Company, based in London.

Adam holds a Bachelor of Engineering (First Class Honours) from the University of Auckland and a Doctorate in Engineering from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.