Co-Founder & Chief AI Officer
Leads AI strategy at the Hull-based technology partner, helping organisations use AI for growth, efficiency and risk management.
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Building AI Leaders
For What Comes Next
Co-Founder and Chief AI Officer at Think Cloud. Lead AI Adjunct, Entrepreneur in Residence and Board Member at Hull University Business School. Governor at Hull College.
CHIEF AI OFFICERLeon McQuade / Co-Founder & Chief AI Officer, Think Cloud
I’ve dedicated over a decade studying
Human Psychology &
Science of AI Adoption
so you don’t have to.
Leon McQuade is Co-Founder and Chief AI Officer of Think Cloud, the Hull-based technology partner, where he leads AI strategy and helps organisations use AI for growth, efficiency and risk management. He writes the Diary of a Chief AI Officer from Hull.
Creator of IKIG-AI, his adaptation of Ikigai for the agentic era, Leon helps leaders put intelligence at the centre of their organisations rather than bolting it onto legacy systems.
A dyslexic thinker, he lives by a simple mission: be useful, be kind, connect people.
Featured by LinkedIn News UK and a Guinness World Records holder.
Book a conversation (opens in a new tab) Connect on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)01 / Roles
Where Leon works.
Technology partner, business school, college and charity: the roles behind the Diary.
Lead AI Adjunct, Entrepreneur in Residence and Board Member
Entrepreneur in Residence since 2023. Leads the University of Hull’s two-day Agentic AI executive programme and runs prompt-a-thons across the Humber.
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Leon is a Governor of Hull College.
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A passionate mental health advocate, Leon served as a Director and Trustee of the UK’s fastest-growing male mental health charity, and chaired Public Health England’s Suicide Prevention Task and Finish Group. That work shaped his belief in leadership where vulnerability is a strength.
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On stage.
On air.
Keynotes, panels, TV and radio: Leon speaks on what agentic AI means for leaders and the organisations they run.
Speaking topics
- IKIG-AI: your reason for being in the agentic era
- The Coming Wave: it’s no longer coming, it’s here
- Redesign the organisation before it redesigns you
- The four modes of working with AI
- Building the agentic powered business
- 2030: what to expect your world to look like
Awards & recognition
- Humber Visionary Leader
- Queen’s Award winner
- High Sheriff Award
- ITV National Diversity Award
- Guinness World Record holder
- Next Gen 101 Award for High Growth Companies
- As featured in LinkedIn News UK
03 / In his own words
Meet Leon McQuade.
Leon on stage at Think Cloud’s Going Down the Rabbit Hole event.