Andrew Halstead Email & Phone Number

England, United Kingdom

Award-winning choir Tenebrae, under the direction of Nigel Short, is one of the world’s leading vocal ensembles renowned for its passion and precision.

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Senior non-clerical executive leading the diocese, its projects and administrative structures, responsible for staffing and allocation of resources. Company Secretary for finance, investments, property and office services across 182 churches.

Took a sabbatical to manage my younger daughter’s fledging singing career on national radio and television after she won the BBC Radio 2 Young Chorister of the Year competition. Also undertaken various projects on brand identity, marketing communications, website development and audio-visual facilities.

• Reporting to the CEO of The FA, initially recruited as Chief Information Officer to resolve a poorly performing outsourcing contract. Promoted in 2004 to Director of Operations, taking control of high spending.
• Developed a single customer base of 3 million members, enabling personalised contact on training courses, tickets, merchandise and on-line entertainment to increase both revenue and participation.
• Improved the large scale ticketing of Wembley Stadium events using the latest technology to enhance the customer experience, improve admission control and safety, reduce fraud and maximise revenue under intense media.

• The business challenge at Blue Circle was to change the organisation from a diversified UK conglomerate to a leading global cement enterprise, by encouraging knowledge and information to be collected, shared and used..
• A member of the successful six man defence team against a hostile bid from Lafarge, briefing City analysts on challenging business plans to increase shareholder value.
• Implemented an ambitious $3m programme of standardising applications across the world, contributing to a share price increase of over 10% in nine months.
• Played a key role in integrating Blue Circle with Lafarge following a “friendly” merger.

• I was recruited to drive technology best practice across the region to encourage client retention. Reporting to the EMEA CEO, I developed a new IT strategy, driven from the business objectives, to exploit modern.
• Developed “The Brain”, collaboration software to allow worldwide access to corporate know-how and ideas, leading the developments of on-line video, adding unique value to retain major clients.
• Encouraged smarter working by leading a joint Finance, HR, Production and IT team to integrate silos of expertise, implementing a new, integrated, enterprise system across 20 countries.

Appointed by the CEO to transform business processes by a swift IT revolution in 10 countries throughout Millward Brown, the world’s leading brand advertising market research agency.

Reporting to the CEO, developed and implemented a cost-effective international Performance Plan within a constrained budget in a £250m division with over 100 sites dispersed worldwide; reduced the administrative and support costs and improved the quality, speed and presentation of management information.

Led a multi-disciplinary team of consultants across a range of service, retail, engineering, manufacturing and distribution industries to target financial improvements in investment returns; achieved success in consultancy for 3i’s clients, advising on systems strategies, specification and selection of hardware and software packages, negotiation of legal.

Responsible for the project management, analysis, design, programming and support of bespoke computer systems for clients such as British Telecom and the Ministry of Defence.

Bsc, Maths & Electronics

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