Marko is the Chief Technology Officer for Our Future Health, joining late 2020 as the first technologist. He has recruited a team who have created and scaled a complex and reliable set of platforms to recruit volunteers, manage appointments for blood, produce quarterly data releases enabling scientific research in a trusted research environment and gain multiple security certifications. Our Future Health is the UK’s largest health research programme and still growing.

Previously, as Head of Innovation and AI at Huma, he was creating market-leading digital health technologies. He served 5 years on the board of NHS Digital, leading on technology and innovation. As Chief Technology Officer at Digital Catapult, he worked across technologies including machine learning, 5G, the internet of things, virtual and augmented reality and blockchain. Marko has been instrumental in bringing several new technologies to market. At a start-up called State he helped to launch a digital global opinion network. Formerly, Marko was Head of Innovation at lastminute.com, where his team launched an array of award-winning mobile apps. Marko studied Computer Science at Cambridge University and has a PhD in Computer Science (AI) from Stanford, where he led foundational work on recommender systems.