Kathryn Parsons has spent more than fifteen years helping Global 2000 boards, business leaders and governments understand, adopt and build with emerging technologies.

She founded Decoded, building world-leading AI Academies and Apprenticeships for enterprises and governments and educating more than one million professionals worldwide. Acquired by Continua Learning Group in 2026, Kathryn continues to advise the board on workforce transformation.

Today, Kathryn invests, advises and builds companies focused on AI deployment, human capability and frontier technologies.

She is co-founder of AI talent and deployment company Nazare.  Her investments include CloudNC (AI for manufacturing), Callosum (AI computing infrastructure), Hydra (sovereign satellite technology) and Lawhive (AI-native legal services).

She co-chairs GBx Global, a network of 400 British founders and investors in the Bay Area who collectively raised over $10 billion for their businesses and funds last year.

A regular commentator for the FT, BBC and The Times, Kathryn explores the impact of emerging technologies on business and society. She is currently working on a forthcoming WSJ vodcast series on AI, workforce capability and cognition.

Her proprietary research brings together global business leaders, investors and policymakers annually. In 2024, her study of AI deployment strategies across major organizations and governments featured in The Times of London and informed C-suite roundtables in London and Silicon Valley. In 2025, her work on AI and growth capital culminated in a Chatham House roundtable for unicorn AI investors and founders at Number 11 Downing Street.

Kathryn was awarded an MBE for services to education after successfully campaigning for computational thinking to become compulsory in the UK national curriculum in 2014. That year, Decoded also provided free coding education to millions of UK students and training for state school teachers.

Kathryn studied Classics at Cambridge University and was made an Honorary Fellow of Downing College in 2026.