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Izam Ryan

I help UK mid-market businesses that are PE-backed or preparing for investment build up and evidence their return on AI.

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About me

I am a Fellow Chartered Accountant (ICAEW) with an MBA from Imperial College London, where I held a full-time scholarship for outstanding leadership potential. I designed the value management office with a global life-sciences CFO and championed an automation Centre of Excellence that trained around a dozen consultants.

Through Candor, I help UK mid-market businesses that are PE-backed or preparing for investment put AI to work and evidence the return. A business doesn’t need a large programme to start: it needs one process, a clear starting point and a person who signs off.

I write for The AI Journal and speak on AI adoption. Outside work I’ve competed internationally in lightsaber duelling, which to me is problem solving in three dimensions: in real time, under pressure, within tight rules.

Experience
Value management, automation and AI adoption for CEOs, CFOs and PE operating partners
Education
MBA (Merit), Imperial College London · BA (Hons) Economics, University of Manchester · Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA), ICAEW
Languages
English, Malay
Region
UK
Location
London
Interests
Lightsaber duelling: competed internationally, run workshops for learners

How I help

Groundwork: the Portfolio Baseline
Every AI use in the business on one view of readiness and value, with up to three processes measured and signed off, and a proposal for what to build first.

For CEOs, CFOs and PE operating partners · 3 weeks · fixed fee · a single Baseline (one process, two weeks) as the smaller way in

Build: AI in daily work
The cleared AI use put into daily work, with the evidence trail built in and a first reading against the Baseline.

About 6 weeks · priced as a share of the return

Track: the return, quarterly
A reading against the Baseline every quarter, so the return on AI stays evidenced.

Ongoing · fixed quarterly fee

Proof

50+
initiatives tracked by the value management office I designed with a global life-sciences CFO.
~12
consultants trained through an automation Centre of Excellence I championed.
8 days
from first conversation to Candor’s first AI automation client signing, with the assistant running within days.
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