# Adrian Davies

> Founder building something new in London with Entrepreneurs First. Two companies founded, TEDx at 20, OECD adviser, Big Law on frontier tech, data centres and energy.

Adrian Davies is a founder building in stealth in London with Entrepreneurs First. He previously co-founded Eusync, a pan-European rail planning platform, and founded Meshara, an off-grid mesh network that won the audience vote at the 2025 Social Impact Award. He spoke at TEDxKlagenfurt at 20, advised the OECD on youth entrepreneurship, and worked in Big Law at Baker McKenzie and DLA Piper on AI, data, cyber and infrastructure.

## Contact and profiles
- Email: adrian@davies.at
- X: https://x.com/realadvs
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adriandav/
- GitHub: https://github.com/ADRLxd
- TEDx talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urA3_1WolCA

## Timeline
- 2026: Founder in Residence, Entrepreneurs First, London. Building something new. Stealth for now.
- 2026: Deal Partner, Boardy
- 2025 to 2026: Law Clerk, Baker McKenzie, Vienna. Commerce, Data, IP and Tech practice: GDPR, AI Act, NIS2 and infrastructure projects.
- 2025: Speaker, OECD and European Commission YEPA Summit, Brussels. Then wrote "Europe's leaky bucket" for the OECD Cogito blog.
- 2024 to 2026: Founder, Meshara. Mesh networking with no SIM and no special hardware. Audience award, Social Impact Award 2025.
- 2024: Speaker, TEDxKlagenfurt. At 20. "Creating Waves" and the SPONGE framework.
- 2024: Summer Intern, DLA Piper, Vienna. Intellectual property and technology.
- 2021 to 2023: Co-founder, Eusync. Pan-European rail planning. CTO from 2022; route queries cut from 10 to 30 seconds to about 200 ms.
- 2022 to 2023: Youth Advisory Boards, UNIQA and Merkur Versicherung
- 2021 to now: Member, Moonshot Pirates

## Writing
- [Europe's leaky bucket: why my generation's founders are leaving](https://oecdcogito.blog/2025/11/12/europes-leaky-bucket-why-my-generations-founders-are-leaving/): Europe invests in talent but fails to build the runways for ideas to take off. A leaky bucket, and the missing 11 percent.
- [Mesh networking and the future of digital inclusion](https://davies.at/writing/mesh-networking-manets/): How MANETs and decentralised systems reshape connectivity for the 2.6 billion people still offline.
- [Compliance in the age of remote work: lessons from DONNA](https://davies.at/writing/compliance-legaltech-donna/): Work from anywhere creates compliance drag. Treat policy as a system and the flow becomes legible.

## Pages
- [About](https://davies.at/about/)
- [Beliefs](https://davies.at/beliefs/)
- [Now](https://davies.at/now/)