Jeff Wellstead is the Founder & CEO of Big Bear Partners and Principal of Clu Labs and UX Consultancy, with 35+ years of HR leadership experience spanning Fortune 100 companies and hyper-growth tech startups. A dual US/UK citizen, he specializes in AI-powered HR transformation, helping organizations shift from reactive firefighting to strategic workforce intelligence. Jeff has led people strategy for 15 different companies from MessageLabs (now Symantec) and SpinVox (now Nuance) to Summit Therapeutics and Oxford Nanoimaging, consistently scaling organizations by 200%+ annually while embedding AI and people analytics to future-proof talent operations. Today, Jeff helps organisations explore their agentic AI future, and helps them prepare for the massive changes coming our way in the AI era.
