--- title: Whitespace hires former Meta product manager Mike Howard... description: Whitespace, a UK company that builds AI for defence and government, has hired former Meta product manager Mike Howard as chief product officer. At Meta, Howard... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/whitespace-hires-former-meta-product-manager-mike-howard-as-cpo-rrbnj2wch twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Whitespace hires former Meta product manager Mike Howard as CPO | daily.dev og:description: Whitespace, a UK company that builds AI for defence and government, has hired former Meta product manager Mike Howard as chief product officer. At Meta, Howard... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/whitespace-hires-former-meta-product-manager-mike-howard-as-cpo-rrbnj2wch og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/rRBnj2WCH.png og:image:alt: Whitespace hires former Meta product manager Mike Howard as CPO og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Whitespace hires former Meta product manager Mike Howard as CPO **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Whitespace, a UK company that builds AI for defence and government, has hired former Meta product manager Mike Howard as chief product officer. At Meta, Howard helped grow a London engineering team to about 100 people before moving into product leadership. He joins as Whitespace prepares a Series B round, following a £10m ($13m) Series A in November 2025 from Beach Equity and White Cloud. The company's main product, Collective, has contracts with the UK Ministry of Defence and NATO, and Whitespace wants to sell it to government departments, banks and healthcare providers. CEO Paul Jenkinson said better, faster decisions let organisations beat competitors or enemies. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Who is Whitespace's new chief product officer? Mike Howard, a former Meta product manager, has joined Whitespace as chief product officer. At Meta he helped grow a London engineering team to about 100 people before moving into product leadership, and earlier in his career he worked at Deloitte analyzing data and building financial models. He will set product direction and build the team as Whitespace prepares a Series B funding round. _Readers tracking AI leadership hires and funding rounds follow company moves like this on daily.dev._ ### What does Whitespace's Collective AI platform do and who uses it? Collective is an AI platform that learns how an organization works and uses that knowledge to help staff make decisions faster. It has been used mainly in defense, with contracts at the UK Ministry of Defence and NATO, and a deal with listed company Defence Holdings to build military AI software. Whitespace now wants to sell it to government departments, banks, and healthcare providers too. _Developers evaluating enterprise AI platforms for decision support can follow sovereign AI vendors like this on daily.dev._ ### How much funding has Whitespace raised and what round is next? Whitespace raised a £10m ($13m) Series A in November 2025 from Beach Equity and White Cloud, and it is now preparing a Series B round. The Belfast-founded company, started in 2015, calls itself a sovereign AI company because its technology is built and controlled in the UK, distinguishing it from larger rivals like Helsing. _Those weighing jobs or partnerships with defense AI startups can track funding signals like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Meta executive leading internal AI overhaul departs after two months](https://daily.dev/posts/meta-executive-leading-internal-ai-overhaul-departs-after-two-months-dpzy4ldiu) · The Next Web · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Meta, like SpaceX, looks to turn excess AI compute into cash](https://daily.dev/posts/meta-like-spacex-looks-to-turn-excess-ai-compute-into-cash-hbgccvph0) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#startup](https://daily.dev/tags/startup), [#product-management](https://daily.dev/tags/product-management) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/whitespace-hires-former-meta-product-manager-mike-howard-as-cpo-rrbnj2wch) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Whitespace hires former Meta product manager Mike Howard as CPO","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/whitespace-hires-former-meta-product-manager-mike-howard-as-cpo-rrbnj2wch","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/whitespace-hires-former-meta-product-manager-mike-howard-as-cpo-rrbnj2wch"},"datePublished":"2026-10-27T10:09:52.980Z","dateModified":"2026-10-27T10:10:20.583Z","description":"Whitespace, a UK company that builds AI for defence and government, has hired former Meta product manager Mike Howard as chief product officer. 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