Adrian Lester

Adrian Lester has held a number of roles in the tech industry since 1996. Starting out as a Software Developer at BT, they then moved to Openwave in 2000, where they worked on a real-time HTML -> XHTML translator module. In 2002, they joined Allstate Northern Ireland as a Technical Consultant and Project and Team Leader. In 2009, they were promoted to Enterprise/Solution Architect and in 2015 they became Senior Product Manager. In 2017, they moved to Arity as a Digital Product Manager and in 2021 they joined Diaceutics PLC as Senior Product Manager, where they have defined and executed a strategy to replatform a B2B SaaS data platform that has resulted in 300% growth in revenue compared to last year. Finally, in 2022, they were appointed Head of Product at WealthKernel.

Adrian Lester obtained a B.Eng in Software Engineering from Ulster University between 1992 and 1996. Prior to that, they attended Royal School Armagh from 1985 to 1992. In addition, Adrian Lester has obtained a Certified Human-Centered Design LUMA Practitioner from the LUMA Institute in May 2019, as well as The Open Group Certified: TOGAF® 9 Foundation from The Open Group in December 2014.