❶ 23 years CFO experience, including:- 15 in Technology (e-Commerce/ASP; Telecommunications; Software/SaaS & Technology Manufacturing)- 10 years in PE-backed companies, 8 years in listed companies and 5 years in private companies❷ Specialism in high growth situations, generally requiring executional excellence and significant organic or inorganic transformation.❸ 19 years as CFO of global businesses employing up to 10,000 employees with extensive international travel and significant experience in the US, China and India. Have established green-field operations in multiple countries. Have also lived outside of the UK for 15 years (Luxembourg 4.0; Germany 3.5; US 2; Jamaica 2.5 and 3 years mostly spent in Malaysia, Venezuela and Spain) ❹ M&A experience of two dozen separate transactions on both the sell-side and buy-side. Have also completed six equity raises and thirteen debt raises. ❺ Involved in seven exits; two sales to PE buyers, two trade sales, two MBOs and one IPO (plus a further IPO which aborted in 2018, two months before anticipated listing)❻ Managed teams of <10 to 200+ individuals across the Finance, Human Resources, Procurement, Legal and IT functions. Have had to build/re-build/upskill entire Finance functions in all of my six main CFO roles.❼ Multiple system implementations including SAP, Navision, Sage, Infor, Netsuite, Qlikview, Tableau, PowerBI, Adaptive Systems, Tagetik, Cognos, Salesforce and Sugar.❽ Fellow Chartered Accountant qualifying with first time passes with PwC. MBA from Kellogg Business School, Northwestern University. Bachelors degree in Physics graduating from Sheffield University.
Listed skills include Start Ups, Mergers And Acquisitions, Strategy, Executive Management, and 43 others.