Currently educating executives on better decision making under uncertainty, chairing a small non-profit board, and mentoring start-up entrepreneurs.Our previous engagement highlights included:- helped achieve an average of 5% annual growth and 15% improvement in marketing investment effectiveness for several NZX50 firms (or equivalent in banking and energy sectors) via media spend effectiveness studies and multi-year consultation on strategy to the Chief Marketing and Customer Officers (CMOs & CCOs)- helped a top-4 bank in NZ improve compliance ahead of the regulation by helping implement TCFD-style climate-change-related financial risk modelling and disclosure; assessment included credit risk, overall deposit risk and customer impact, regional economic and social impact- outlined strategic direction on data governance via a Board paper; improved compliance via GDPR and new NZ Privacy Bill gap analysis and remediation for a NZ top-4 bank- massively reduced losses & improved profitability by driving a redesign of unsecured lending portfolio strategy for major banks (NZ, EU)- helped achieve a billion-euro reduction in risk via more precise credit risk modelling for a top-10 EU banking group- prepared an EU market entry strategy based on international market entry evaluation for a NZ designer furniture brand- helped drive higher profitability via pricing recommendations for a premium French chocolate brand- prepared a go-to-market strategy analysis for a micro-brewerySince founded in 2010 in Frankfurt, Germany, Ivanov Consulting Ltd and its consultants improved profitability and reduced risk for top listed multinationals across financial services and utilities sectors in Germany, Italy, Norway, South Africa, and New Zealand, as well as SME's in retail, designer furniture, arts, farming, micro-brewing sectors, and jewellery sectors.

Chairing the board of a small non-profit in local community service & engagement

We organise speakers & events for privacy professionals (seminars, panels, webinars) around privacy and data governance.E.g. the NZ Privacy Commissioner, Chief Privacy Officers of NZX50 firms, international speakers.Governance Team: 4 voluntary co-chairs.

Governance role; helped the Board with the following:- Review of the Board papers- Policy review (esp. Privacy Policy)- CEO transition (outgoing CEO retired; supported the handover and transition to the incoming CEO)- Crisis management

Supervised 3 advanced Master of Analytics students to successful completion of their work placement projects (customer + retail + marketing analytics)

9-month consulting engagement within risk management function, that led to million-dollar revenue uplift through faster decisions and better home loan uptake, delivered via optimised decision engine strategies, within given risk appetite.Created data structures that dramatically sped up and simplified future originations analytics projects.

2 stints: 2008/2009, and again in 2013 on a return 6-month assignment.Decreased the Basel-II regulatory capital by 1% for major portfolios of one of the top-10 EU retail banks, through implementing an A-IRB credit risk framework (PD and LGD models, as part of a team), including introduction of novel machine learning algorithms and semi-parametric regression methods.

Assisted a board-level business turnaround project within consumer finance division, helping increase ROI in marketing and optimise go-to-market process, based on smarter deployment of data in targeting, creation of single view of customer, and marketing planning & tracking tools.

• Developed and implemented the founding idea and business strategy• Served on the editorial board: accepted 17 articles, achieved 2000+ views and 750+ downloads

• Developed and tested a model of strategic price-setting of German petrol stations• Organised weekly seminar series and workshops for young researchers