I emailed the White House. They replied in minutes.
Social engineer & keynote speaker.
Then I did it to Wall Street CEOs, the Governor of the Bank of England and the White House — over 150 times, it worked. The talk is me working through it honestly: how it happened, how it actually felt, and the uncomfortable, very human reasons it kept working.
Spoken at Uber, Siemens and Mercedes-Benz · Worked with the US Secret Service and the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre · Featured by BuzzFeed News, CNN and Jimmy Kimmel.
The talk
A first-person journey from office prankster to fooling some of the most powerful inboxes on earth — honest about the thrill, the panic, and the human psychology that made it all work.
The story. How an office prankster with no security background ended up in the inboxes of CEOs, bankers and the White House — and the moment it stopped feeling like a game.
The honest bit. The thrill, the panic, the paranoia that followed — and what the way my own brain works had to do with why any of it worked.
The live teardown. The actual emails I sent — Goldman Sachs, Citibank, the White House — pulled apart on screen, and what AI changes from here.