He is primarily a salesman, is he not?
"A child prodigy in chess, Hassabis reached master standard at the age of 13"
"graduating in 1997 with a Double First[13] from the University of Cambridge"
"obtain[ed] his PhD in cognitive neuroscience from University College London"
"[his] theoretical account of the episodic memory system [...] was listed in the top 10 scientific breakthroughs of the year in any field by the journal Science"