Alex Learmonth

Venture & product consultant · London

Turn complex opportunities into valuable ventures

I help executives and venture leaders identify the right opportunity, reduce the risk around it, and build the product, team, and operating model needed to scale.

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15+ years

Building products, ventures, and the teams behind them.

The challenge

Ambitious opportunities arrive wrapped in uncertainty.

The difficult work is not generating more ideas. It is deciding where to play, what must be true, which risks to address first, and how to organize a team to learn and deliver at speed.

How I help

Senior judgement where strategy meets execution.

01

Venture strategy & validation

Find valuable opportunity spaces, shape the business and investment case, and address the risks that matter before committing at scale.

02

Product & venture leadership

Lead multidisciplinary teams from idea to launch and growth, as an adviser, embedded product leader, venture GM, or fractional CPO.

03

Portfolio & practice transformation

Improve portfolio choices, operating models, product capability, investment allocation, and the systems used to manage performance.

Experience

Built in the room, not from the sidelines.

I have spent more than 15 years leading complex product and venture work, including over eight years building corporate ventures with multidisciplinary teams.

My experience spans new business creation, technical products, multi-sided platforms, AI-enabled workflows, portfolio transformation, and scaling product organizations.

My approach

Strong intent.
Evidence over theatre.

  1. 01

    Clarify the intent

    Align the opportunity with the organization’s ambition, advantage, and constraints.

  2. 02

    Sequence the risk

    Turn assumptions into evidence and address the highest-consequence uncertainty first.

  3. 03

    Build to learn

    Bring product, design, engineering, and commercial thinking together around real outcomes.

  4. 04

    Prepare to scale

    Develop the operating model, capability, and performance system the next stage demands.

About Alex

A product leader, venture builder, and practical optimist.

I have worked as a Product Director, Principal, Head of Product Delivery, venture leader, and consultant across startups and global organizations.

I lead with purpose, transparency, and a coaching mindset. I am at my best with talented, diverse teams tackling difficult missions where the path is not yet obvious.

I am particularly interested in responsible AI, agentic systems, automation, energy, healthcare, and the ways emerging technology can improve how teams discover and build.

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