Meet our alumni: Henry Scott-Green and Alex Gamble
Henry Scott-Green is a Co-Founder and CEO at Context.ai and Alex Gamble is a Co-Founder and CTO at the same company.
What did you study at UCL CS and during which years?
We both studied undergraduate Computer Science at UCL from 2013-2016.
Do you hold any other roles or associations with UCL or UCL Computer Science?
Alex was the President of UCL TechSoc. Henry was director of the UCL Entrepreneur Society Venture Capital Fund, social secretary of UCL Hockey Club, and founder of the Algorithmic Trading Student Special.
Tell us a favourite memory or something you like about UCL CS
We both worked together for our second year CS project building an application for cancer patients at the Guy’s and St. Thomas NHS Trust, and we won the prize for best project in our year group.
How did you get from graduating from UCL CS to where you are now?
We both graduated from UCL in 2016. Henry joined Google straight out of UCL and worked as a Product Manager for 7 years.
Alex went to Cambridge University to complete a Master's in Machine Learning. After completing the Master's, he joined Google as a Software Engineer for 6 years. We both came together in early 2023 and started exploring startup ideas, and Context.ai was born!
What kind of things are you currently working on and how did your degree help?
We are the co-founders of Context.ai, a London-based startup that provides performance monitoring tools for AI products. We help people who are building applications using Large Language Models to monitor their performance and identify opportunities to improve their product.
Our degrees helped prepare us for our work, particularly the project-based nature of the UCL Computer Science degree.
We spent several years building real products for real clients while completing our degrees at UCL. This taught us practical engineering skills, project management and product skills as we had to figure out what the right thing to build is!
Do you have any advice for fellow alumni who are starting out on their career path?
Henry - Start doing internships as early as you can. They’re a great way to try different career paths and find something you enjoy, and the professional experience looks great on your CV as you apply for later stage internships and graduate programmes.
Alex - Trust yourself. There are a lot of options for what to do with your time and the reasoning for good decisions can sometimes be hard to put into words.
What is one achievement you are particularly proud of and why?
Henry - I raised $17M for a nonprofit medical research programme into Long Covid due to suffering with the illness myself and struggling with the lack of medical research to help doctors understand and treat the disease.
What did you want to be when you were a younger?
Henry - I always wanted to start a business. I have and it feels great.
Alex - I wanted to be an airplane pilot. I like things that feel surprising and giant metal cylinders that fly across the world would fit that criteria.
What would you do for a living if you changed your current path?
Henry - I would be building AI products in a different space! We think we’re at a once-in-a-generation technology shift enabled by AI.
Alex - Self-driving cars for sure or AGI research so that the AI can help self-driving cars arrive sooner.
Do you have a favourite quote, motto or advice that you live by?
Henry - “Regret what you do, not what you don’t."
Alex - “It’s supposed to be fun."
Tell us something you like about being in London
The tech ecosystem here is fantastic. London has amazing people, huge numbers of fantastic companies from Big Tech to exciting AI startups, great investors, and fantastic events.
Tell us one interesting / random fact about yourself?
Alex - I’ve lived in 8 different countries.
Henry - I’ve lived and worked in Switzerland and California.
