Adam Chamberlain
Founder, Agentrify
I started my career as a network engineer: someone who built the infrastructure, fixed the problems, and learned from the ground up how technology actually works. But more importantly, I learned how technology underpins a business. What keeps it running, where it creates value, and where it quietly costs more than it should. And I learned early that technology is the easy bit. Understanding the people, processes, and problems around it is what's genuinely hard.
At EMC and Rackspace, I worked directly with customers to help them get real value from their technology investment. Not just deploying solutions, but understanding the business case: what success actually looked like, and making sure the technology delivered it. That often meant reducing operational costs where value wasn't being realised, freeing businesses to reinvest where it mattered. It always meant listening before recommending.
I founded Agentrify because that same skill is exactly what's needed now: understanding how technology can genuinely serve a business. AI is powerful, but only if it's applied to the right problems, in the right way, for the right business. That's what we do.