Lee is a recognised strategy and innovation leader. He combines creativity, design and innovation expertise with extensive leadership, operational and commercial experience. His focus is masterminding and leading the creation of new value propositions, products and customer experiences that transform businesses or create new ones.

Lee has worked with global brands such as Sky, Volvo, Barclays, Virgin Money, Skype, Yamaha, and Puma on diverse projects spanning strategy, brand, technology, product, digital, experience and service design. In 2015 he founded Door a strategic innovation consultancy.

Prior to founding Door, Lee was Group Design Director at Barclays PLC where he was responsible for building and leading interdisciplinary teams creating the next era of financial services.

Earlier in his career he was Managing Director of Voxygen a technology consultancy specialising in digital communication products, and part of the leadership team of the pioneering telecoms company Pipex Communications PLC.  

Lee is also a critically acclaimed musician and songwriter. He has released two albums on his own record label and toured internationally until 2004 playing at venues such as Ronnie Scotts and festivals such as the North Sea Jazz Festival. His popular YouTube channel has had over 2 million views.

His music and neuroscience project "Brainstruments" about the mental models of musicians, features interviews with over 50 leading jazz and blues luminaries and appeared in Wired Magazine and on the BBC.