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London, England, Gb

London, England, Gb

London, England, Gb

Co-Founder and COO at MOHARA, a pre seed to series A venture builder and sweat investor in start-ups.Our client base is built up of start-ups, scale-ups and corporates with whom we build technology products and businesses. We have invested in over 20 startups since inception and built more than 50 tech products with our corporate partners. We have successfully taken businesses through to exit.MOHARA offers a core suite of services including service design, user experience design, prototyping, software development and marketing operations. Arching over the top of these core services are business leaders with years of experience who strategically guide our clients through the early stage development of their product or business.We see new and existing businesses making the same innovation mistakes everyday. Technology is the end game, people are the starting point.Let's be pioneers together.

London, England, Gb

London, England, Gb

Transitioned from the part time CFO role into providing senior advisory services for QR as they continue their growth and integration into the ALTEN family.

London, England, Gb

- Quick Release is a unique organisation driven by an energetic and innovative group of dedicated Product Data Management professionals, working hard to set companies free by taking off the digital brakes that hold them back. - Operations across multiple sites in the UK, with subsidiaries in Germany, Spain, Australia and the USA.- In May 2019 we were very proud to join the Alten family.

Fontainebleau, Singapore, Abu Dhabi, San Francisco, Oo

After studying at INSEAD and then starting several businesses, I wanted to give something back to the school. Mentoring as an EiR gives lots of satisfaction, but also helps me gain valuable insights into new business ideas and models. In addition, at MOHARA we sponsor the INSEAD Venture Competition, which runs twice per year, and I help judge the entrants.

Stigma Statistics aims to improve suicide prevention by mapping suicide data in real time. With better support for the bereaved, better data and analysis, and better collaboration, we hope to mitigate this global epidemic.

London

In order to help GroHappy reach their next phase of development, MOHARA are bringing our technical skills and experience. We've got an exciting roadmap ahead, to keep delivering on GroHappy's mission to "help companies to keep great people by giving employees the career development they crave."

Massif Central creates bespoke & limited edition data illustrations. We use a range of different data sources to create gallery quality prints, capturing your great achievements.

- An innovative online platform that helps people get better gifts for the women in their lives.- Built the company and developed the concept from scratch; worked closely with the designer and developer on the development of the concept over three distinct phases; provided detailed technical input including the technical specifications for the algorithm-based ‘Idea Map’.- Developed a detailed marketing plan covering the range of ‘earned’, ‘owned’ and ‘bought’ media; hired a team to execute on the marketing plan.- Planned and executed innovative social media marketing campaigns such as the ‘tokens of affection’ campaign on Twitter, involving 10 bloggers over 28 days.- Built partnerships with a wide range of boutiques and stores to sell products through the site, plus developed relationships with over 100 bloggers.

- Managed and engaged in numerous audits and advisory projects over eight years with Ernst & Young, covering areas of investment and retail banking from treasury and capital adequacy to credit origination and impairment, liabilities, operations and financial statement close process.- Key clients included: Barclays, Lloyds Banking Group, ING, ABN AMRO, MBNA, Citibank, IFX Markets, Kent Reliance Building Society.Significant achievements:- Turned around a failing remediation project with fees of £2.5 million in the corporate arm of a leading UK bank. Managed 30 staff and delivered to the client's tight timeframe.- Led a series of projects for a major high street bank to clarify the organisational design and bring 12 FTEs into the Corporate Banking Finance team.- Managed a team of three in a wide ranging review of the collections and recoveries processes for a subsidiary of large clearing bank in a project worth over £250,000.- Took control of a much delayed internal audit for a major UK bank, focusing on retail impairment, where impaired assets totalled £1.3 billion. Led a team of three and delivered the audit on time and budget.- Directed the audit for the treasury function of a large international bank during a complex system migration, supervising a team of five people.- Delivered the conversion and first time International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) audit for the second largest microfinance institution in India.- Designed the processes and managed the delivery of two large scale IFRS implementation projects at the Indian head office of a major US bank and at a large Indian bank.- Operated as the Executive Assistant to the Finance Director of a leading retail bank, liaising between departments and direct reports, and overseeing internal projects.- Invited by the British Council to contribute to a programme to raise awareness of Indian business for interns under the 'Prime Minister's Global Fellowship Programme'.

Was on secondment to EY Mumbai