Afiya Chohollo
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CoFounder at CloudFO | Building the AI finance colleague | Speaker | Board member at CloudFO: Cloud Financial Officer
Location: London, England, United Kingdom 11 work roles 2 schools
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Afiya Chohollo previously worked as Co-Founder at Cloudfo: Cloud Financial Officer and VP of Engineering & Technical Program Management at Onfido at Onfido. Afiya Chohollo holds Masters Of Engineering With Industrial Experience, Material Science & Engineering, 1St Class from The University Of Manchester.

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Building CloudFO Cofounder of CloudFO, CloudFO is an AI finance colleague, bringing the power of Generative AI to Company finances. Just ask a question ...and CloudFO performs complex analysis or forecast your key business metrics in seconds. Afiya embarked on this entrepreneurial journey after scaling Onfido’s AI platform as VP of Engineering for 5 years to serve thousands of clients and drive more than $120million in ARR, With Afiya’s expertise in program management and cross-functional leadership, Several engineering disciplines and technical execution; She has a proven track record to consistently deliver results. She has done so across various industries & organisation sizes from Manufacturing, eCommerce, education, FinTech and AI SaaS software. As well as being a published scientific researcher. She is a skilled communicator who applies a scientific approach to problem-solving, regardless of the challenge at hand. Afiya's ability to seamlessly switch between interpersonal, technical, theoretical, and practical considerations makes her a valuable asset.

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CloudFO: Cloud Financial Officer
Cloudfo: Cloud Financial Officer
CoFounder at CloudFO | Building the AI finance colleague | Speaker | Board member
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Co-Founder

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Bringing the power of Generative AI to your company's finances with CloudFO. Perform complex analysis or forecast your key business metrics in seconds... just by asking. Welcome your new finance partner to your team and spend less time on finances and more time growing your business. Intelligent software to grow your business and stops you from running out of cash.

Jan 2022 - Present

Vp Of Engineering & Technical Program Management At Onfido

Heading of the Foundation Engineering group at Onfido which consists of 7 Engineering teams of various engineering expertise - DevOps, Platform, SRE Test Engineering, Data privacy Engineering and product Dashboard. We intersect our expertise, technologies, services and systems across all of Onfido's products and teams. Providing the foundation to release and operate products faster, safer, and securely with our clients and their end users.Leading the Technical Program management function, delivering major cross functional programs across entire technology stack, engineering product and business operation teams. Promotion of product delivery best practice to drive efficiency and product health through our product delivery cycle.Our AI-based technology assesses whether a user’s government-issued ID is genuine or fraudulent, and then compares it against their facial biometrics.

Nov 2021 - Aug 2023

Director Of Technical Program Management

Our AI-based technology assesses whether a user’s government-issued ID is genuine or fraudulent, and then compares it against their facial biometrics.As Director of Technical Program management function, with a mission to serve Onfido by driving initiatives where cross functional acceleration &/or risk mitigation is required for the successful delivery of a Technical program by keeping domain expertise open to each other and our customersWe deliver major cross functional programs across entire technology stack, engineering product and business operation teams. Promotion of product delivery best practice to drive efficiency and product health through our product delivery cycle.Team Lead - Line managementTech leadership teamEnterprise Client integrationsDevops agile management Cloud platform design, delivery and managementAWS & AzurePMOWebsite programProduct delivery Lifecycle Privacy and data management architecture programScrum Master Lean Product management

Mar 2020 - Nov 2021

Senior Technical Program Manager

Our AI-based technology assesses whether a user’s government-issued ID is genuine or fraudulent, and then compares it against their facial biometrics.As Head of Technical Program management function, delivering major cross functional programs across entire technology stack, engineering product and business operation teams. Promotion of product delivery best practice to drive efficiency and product health through our product delivery cycle.Team Lead - line managementEnterprise Client integrationsDevops agile management Cloud platform design, delivery and managementAWS & AzurePMOWebsite programProduct delivery Lifecycle Function mission - We serve Onfido by driving initiatives where cross functional acceleration &/or risk mitigation is required for the successful delivery of a Technical program by keeping domain expertise open to each other and our customers'Privacy and data management architecture program

Jul 2018 - Mar 2020

Technology Portfolio Program Manager

Customer Fulfilment operates in 7 national fulfilment centres, 320 stores with 35K colleagues across operations and Head office. I Program manage the technology development for the portfolio of programs that will enable us to create a strategic and scalable fulfilment platform in Tesco supply chain landscape; maximizing the resource usage and increase the end to end fulfilment efficiency. Coordinating development across a number of back-end microservices that support our operational process by;- Translate long term business strategy into core capabilities and support product teams to articulate product vision - Roadmapping these capabilities and define the architecture the business will need to deliver against the long term goals- Annual and Quarterly release planning -Balance the business needs with technical constraints- Assess business impact/value, prioritize initiatives and quickly react to a fast-paced, dynamic environment- Requirement gathering & coordination of cross- product definition of user stories against project feature deliverables-Identify and manage upstream, downstream and external dependencies- Proactively identify upcoming risks, issues, and bottlenecks and resolve cross-team issues- Balance and refine the relevant backlogs ensuring that relevant technical and architectural enablers are prioritised to meet the delivery of business value.

Apr 2018 - Jul 2018

Business Planning & Program Manager (Online Fulfilment)

London, United Kingdom

Customer Fulfilment operates in 7 national fulfilment centres, 320 stores with 35K colleagues across operations and Head office. Across this function I am responsible for the process and governance of end- to- end planning, for all projects; against the framework of the long term strategy. This involves developing project concepts, leading key projects to initiation, programme managing delivery and benefits realisation. • Operating according to our principle of ‘Safety first’• Creating a Centre of excellence for project management • Strategy development and definition of the Customer Fulfilment endstate goals & metrics targets • Requirement gathering, design sessions & concept design• Designed and implemented business case documentation with training to all project managers • Project business case development and prioritisation • Supporting project managers, project assurance & PRINCE/ AGILE/RIBA methodologies • Problem solving, issue and change, risk assessment/mitigation, escalation management• Stakeholder engagement - key interface between business and technology to translate our business requirements into product capabilities. Scrum and sprint planning. • Key interface between Fulfilment and other stakeholders e.g. Tesco group, finance, procurement• Dependencies management across complex programmes• Organisation and chairing of governance • Communications; presenting and reporting to stakeholders and team through status reports and team days• Tracking and forecasting of risks and benefits against budget and plan• Project closure, handover and benefit review & measurement

Nov 2015 - May 2018

Programme Manager

Managing a Programme of 3 capital projects 1. Business transfer from USA to UK 2. Business continuity 3. Creation & opening of a R&D Centre of Excellence • Leading project teams to deliver project objectives• Writing capital proposals • Project planning & budget control & MS project• International travel and project management between the USA and the UK.• Reporting/ Communications via web communications, presentations, risk assessments. • Recruitment of new technical staff to work in the CoE• Procurement due-diligence over a £1M spend on scientific equipment • Process transfer analysis to ensure the material produced remained unchanged• Responsible for all New product introduction activities APQP (Advanced Product Quality Process) /ISIR (Initial Sample Inspection Report) /PPAP (Production Part Approval Process), P/D FMEAs (design /process Failure Mode & effect analysis)• Reporting to NPI status to customers - internal and external. • Coordinating engineering and operations departments and develop and implement Manufacturing Plans

May 2014 - Oct 2015

Morgan Ambassadors Founder & Programme Manager

In December 2013 a fellow graduate and I founded; Morgan Ambassadors a school outreach programme. Now running nationally across 7 UK sites with 50 volunteers and external backing from IOM3, British Science Association & STEMNET. This programme allowed us to facilitate school trips to manufacturing plants, coursework project sponsorship so students had real industry examples and I was asked to speak on several occasions including to students at Ascot University.

Dec 2012 - Sep 2014

Business Analyst

United Kingdom

2nd year on Morgan Advanced Materials Graduate Leadership Programme;In 2013 Morgan Crucible unified operations under the name Morgan Advanced Materials. Supported this programme as a strategy analyst feeding into the executive board. This role also involved reviewing and prioritising strategic capital proposals with a value >£1m by risk, ROI, timeline, and submission of recommendations to the board. Post this, the position moved to the Global fibre business this role provided key analysis for the development and execution of Morgan's £250M global high temperature insulating fibre business strategy. PMO of over 30 projects, in Asia, North America, Europe, South America.• Project concept and business analysis and project gate planning• Global Programme office monitoring & tracking:• Modelling and SQL data analysis• Project portfolio management • Business continuity planning• Market and internal business analysis• Reviewing of strategic capital proposals• Financial planning and Management, P&L & budget review• Remote global working/communication and international travel

Oct 2013 - May 2014

Graduate Engineer - Project Manager

United Kingdom

Project managed the introduction of a new quality control (SPC) system across a manufacturing site. Managing a team of 4 and training a workforce of 70. Delivered project which had 10 year history within and 12 month time scale. Responsibilities included removing historic system/ processes & implementing new quality control measures. This lead to improved quality visibility, data capturing & reduced scrapIn my first year at Morgan I have also conducted a marketing project and been involved in commercial initiatives. Along with another fellow graduate I set up Morgan's school outreach scheme Morgan Ambassadors.

Sep 2012 - Oct 2013

Material Chemistry Researcher

Awe

Publication; Cambridge Journals: Surface analytical study of uranium exposed to low pressures of hydrogen at ∼ 80°C 2012 MRS Spring Meeting. Afiya H. Choholloa1 and Robert M. Harkera1 2012 MRS proceedings Volume 144412 months industrial placement during undergraduate degree. Research project title: The investigation of the very earliest stages of Depleted uranium corrosion,• Trained and signed of as fully competent to use a scanning electron microscope, X-ray diffractometer, an atomic force microscopy • Modelling of data and results e.g. Rietveld analysis• Plan laboratory experiments and design testing methods • Interpretation of scientific data & results • Dissertation & report submissionKey achievements: After researching the technique used in polymers coatings, I conducted the first documented electrical characterisation AFM on UH3 this lead to a publication of this work in the Cambridge journals. Subsequently I won the prize for best presentation at the placement student’s final presentation’s conference. Represented AWE post-employment at the UNTF - won the prize for the best presentation. Presented for both scientific and managerial meetings & conferences; and at JOWOG international conference

Jul 2010 - Aug 2011
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Afiya Chohollo works for CloudFO: Cloud Financial Officer.

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Afiya Chohollo is listed as CoFounder at CloudFO | Building the AI finance colleague | Speaker | Board member at CloudFO: Cloud Financial Officer.

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Afiya Chohollo is based in London, England, United Kingdom while working with CloudFO: Cloud Financial Officer.

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Afiya Chohollo has worked for Cloudfo: Cloud Financial Officer, Onfido, Tesco, Morgan Advanced Materials, and Morgan Ceramics.

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Afiya Chohollo holds Masters Of Engineering With Industrial Experience, Material Science & Engineering, 1St Class from The University Of Manchester.

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