Founded in 2018, Melioro Group enables clients across government, academia, industry and the third sector explore and integrate intelligence, insights, invention and innovation to create real world impact and value from intellectual capital. 

With a focus on the exploitation of dual use technologies including Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Autonomy, Data and Decision Sciences, Behavioural and Physical sciences, Melioro aims to help government, industry and academia realise mutual benefits from investing in fresh, innovative and agile ways of delivering solutions to strategic challenges with an emphasis on defence, security and resilience.

Underpinned by an extensive networks of contacts, access to funding organisations and real clarity around sector requirements, Melioro Group can help identify, implement and accelerate innovative portfolio solutions to your growth challenges.

Our background

Melioro Group Ltd was set up in 2018 by Jordan Giddings following his career in government, industry and academia. Jordan recognised the need for 'translators' who sit at the nexus of researchers, the private sector, investors and government to help develop new opportunities from the tactical to the strategic and build new and high performing collaborations.

Melioro Group Limited now works with a broad range of clients and associates to build ecosystems to help defence, security, cyber and transport clients develop and implement technology strategies, build capabilities, secure investment and build extensive networks across stakeholders nationally and internationally.

Jordan’s background is primarily in the domain of systems, science, technology and innovation domains experience in academia, the private sector and government. He works across the intersection of government, industry and academia, with a focus on multidisciplinary innovation in defence, national security and wider resilience. His areas of personal interest and expertise include dual use and emerging technologies, complexity and complex systems, transdisciplinary research and innovation, cyber, infrastructure, AI, autonomy, and data sciences. 

Jordan has experience as both Board member (e.g. Non Executive Director for NAG and N² Group) and Chair across a wide range of commercial sector, Government organisations (Head of Capability Assessment for UK MOD, Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security, and prior to that, for Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser for the Department for Transport), European organisations (former Board member of the Intelligent Transport Systems association, ERTICO) and Trade Associations (former Chair of the Tech UK Defence Research and Technology Council).  

Jordan now works primarily as an independent adviser. In addition to his role as Non Executive Director for the Met Office, Jordan is a science and technology adviser to the UK Government, and an adviser to a range of physical science and data science led start ups and scale ups including Mind Foundry and Tenacium. He also supports a number of boutique strategy consultancies including Renaissance Strategic Advisors. He is a visiting Professor at the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at UCL, a visiting Professor at Cranfield School of Defence and Security, a visiting Professor at the University of Hertfordshire, an Honorary Principal Research Fellow to the Imperial College Institute for Security Science and Technology and a visiting Fellow in Cyber Security at Loughborough University. 

Professionally, Jordan is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Chartered Physicist and Chartered Scientist. Jordan holds an MA Degree from the University of Oxford in Physics and a PhD from the University of London in High Energy Particle Physics.