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Track record · Operational leader

  • $70Mannual cloud spend, P&L ownership
  • $300Mtransformation programme
  • 8 to 150team built in 18 months
  • ~50%operational cost reduction

Head of Cloud at WPP, across three hyperscaler clouds. More on my background →

John Bradshaw

John Bradshaw is a cloud and AI strategist at Akamai Technologies, focused on cloud infrastructure, edge computing, and AI inference. He speaks at conferences across Europe and the Middle East — from WeAreDevelopers World Congress to The AI Summit London — on cloud economics, API security, and bringing AI to the edge.

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Both sides of the table

I spent the years before Akamai as the customer, running cloud for a global group and holding the budget. It is a useful thing to have done before advising anyone else on the same decisions.

2023 to now

Field CTO

Akamai

Advising enterprise buyers across Europe and the Middle East on cloud infrastructure, edge and AI inference.

to 2023

Head of Cloud

WPP

Was the enterprise buyer: $70M of annual cloud spend under P&L ownership, on a $30M budget to run the function. Built an internal MSP from 8 people to 150, standing up product, customer success, solutions architecture and cloud engineering.

In the room with CIOsCFOsCISOsC-suiteBroadcast and media executivesSecurity leaders

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Recently

  1. Writing Model Routing: The Cheapest Model Is the One You Didn't Call Cloud Economics & Sovereignty
  2. Writing Most AI Requests Aren't AI Problems Security & AI Governance
  3. Talk Fireside Chat: Building the AI Enterprise — A Customer Perspective Akamai Cloud & AI Exchange London
  4. Insight Typed Decision Models 5 concepts · 4 decision paths · 5 diagrams
  5. Talk The Compute Infrastructure Questions Every AI Buyer Should Ask The Xcelerated Compute Show London 2026
  6. Talk Debate: Hybrid cloud in the AI era – Best practice or a model under pressure? DCD Connect Live: London 2026
  7. Press The State of AI in Media 2026 DPP (Digital Production Partnership)
  8. Insight Agentic API Security 5 concepts · 4 decision paths · 5 diagrams
  9. Press John Bradshaw cited in AS Watson technology partnership announcement AS Watson Group
  10. Writing The Model Context Protocol: A Strategic Reference for Technical Leaders Agentic AI & MCP
  11. Video Preparing to take pole position on the AI grid Digitalisation World

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