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Chief Executive Officer at Expereo, Investor and Strategic Advisor | Faster to the Future at
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About Ben Elms
I’m a growth leader who cares deeply for people: employees, partners and customers alike. I’m known for my high standards and work rate, energy and enthusiasm, and an ability to develop loyalty and followership from my teams. Over the years, I’ve developed relationships at the highest levels of B2B tech value chains. After 18 wonderful years with Vodafone culminating in in my role as Group Director (CEO), Vodafone Global Enterprise (VGE), I am now Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Expereo.Expereo is a Global Managed Services provider who specialises in internet connectivity. We are a company that has unrivalled knowledge and experience of global IP connectivity to enable our customers’ businesses to move faster to the future. We deliver secure, global network connectivity for businesses wherever they need to operate, with solutions designed for the business needs of our hyperconnected world. Expereo understands the internet better than anyone else. And we pride ourselves on delivering the personal touches you need to successfully progress to your global digital future. It’s no surprise our solutions already power enterprise and government sites around the world, and we are the trusted partner of Fortune 500 companies.On a personal note, I have lived and worked in North America in Seattle and Vancouver, in Australasia, both Singapore and Sydney, across South and East Africa, and the UK and Northern Europe.You can learn more about Expereo by clicking on the links in the ‘Featured’ section. Just a message away if I can be of assistance.
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Chief Executive Officer at Expereo, Investor and Strategic Advisor | Faster to the Future
Ben Elms Work Experience Details
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Chief Executive OfficerExpereo May 2024 - PresentAmsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nl
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Chief Revenue Officer (Cro)Expereo Jan 2022 - May 2024Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NlAs specialists in global internet connectivity, we enable our customers to take confidence from our intelligent, enterprise grade, global connectivity and seamless customer experience. We continuously innovate to make the internet better for business. With local teams on the ground and our intelligent platform expereoOne, we provide flexibility, control and visibility and are ready to assist you around the clock, supporting your reginal growth strategies as you scale up and down in even the most challenging locations. Our accessible expertise will help you navigate the complexity every step of the way as we help to consolidate your connectivity, providing you with total control of your global estate.
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Strategic AdvisorNumentum (Formerly Empire Selling) May 2023 - PresentNew York, Ny, UsNumentum is a buyer experience consultancy built for the digital era. We partner with growth-oriented organisations to advance the effectiveness of their buying experience and deliver the revenue momentum their leaders need to confidently achieve their goals in today’s challenging business environment. Numentum has helped leading global enterprises like Vodafone Business, SAP, Broadcom, and RELX equip and inspire their go-to-market teams to be successful in the new digital buying environment. -
Group Director (Ceo), Vodafone Global Enterprise (Vge)Vodafone 2019 - Oct 2021London, GbResponsible for leading Vodafone’s Global Enterprise business, serving 1,200 multinational corporates globally, including setting the overall go to market strategy, the P&L management, customer engagement and cross-functional leadership. • Led a multi-cultural, gender diverse team of 1,400 people across six regions.• Delivered a multi-billion revenue performance, with a high degree of profitability, outperforming the market to 31 December 2020. • Drove a transformation delivering operational efficiencies and increased sales performance in a global pandemic whilst delivering top quartile customer satisfaction performance globally. • Accountable for driving growth across complex portfolios; mobility, fixed, IoT, UC, consulting and managed services, including driving breakthrough delivery of SD WAN. • Built one global team with a customer centric mantra with focus on inter regional collaboration, including reinventing our communication strategy during pandemic to drive engagement, team spirit and overarching purpose -
Regional Director – Northern Europe – Vodafone Global Enterprise (Vge)Vodafone 2016 - 2019London, GbResponsible for leading and turning around the performance of VGE Northern Europe, the largest region. Managing 450 customers across the UK, Ireland, Netherlands, France and Benelux as well as the international public sector team.• Led customer engagement with the C-suite of the largest multinational customers in the region to turn around performance. Improving customer satisfaction; via enhancing account relationships, account and service management and enhanced network performance. Turned around legacy managed service account performance. • Inspired and motivated a direct and digital sales team to drive double digit sales performance. • Implemented a people transformation programme to turn around the culture, engagement and performance whilst raising the bar on talent, driving top quartile performance in the global people survey, creating a desired place to work.• Delivered revenue growth whilst driving a cost transformation agenda• Created and led a large deal focus winning and delivering 5 multiyear managed services deals for FTSE 100 companies.
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Regional Director (President) Asia Pacific – Vodafone Global Enterprise (Vge)Vodafone 2015 - 2017London, GbResponsibility for leading Vodafone Global Enterprise businesses across Asia with circa 400 employees based in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Tokyo, China, Hong Kong, India and the UK.• Delivered strong financial performance with growth in revenue, EBITDA and sales performance. • Developed and implemented the enterprise strategy for the region to deliver strong outbound performance into European and African markets with key Fortune 500 regional customers.• Built strong customer engagement and customer communities along with brand positioning in the region. • Restructured and motivated the sales and support teams to refresh talent and deliver incremental revenue growth. • Managing the integration of acquired sales teams from Cable & Wireless to ensure a single fixed and mobile offering to regional customers. Taking the lead with analysts and partners to reposition the new capability. • Leading the engagement with regional strategic partners such as Starhub, NTT Docomo & Hutchison to ensure consistent delivery for Vodafone customers and incremental value for partners.
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Evp Asia Pacific – Vodafone Global Enterprise (Vge)Vodafone 2013 - 2015London, GbResponsible for leading the regional sales organisation across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong, India and the UK.• Built deep customer relationships and external engagement with regional analysts and delivered double digit revenue growth.• Created the foundation of the East to West strategy for emerging Asian companies to grow in Europe and Africa and led customer engagements across regions delivering international expansion.• Focused on improving customer service and advocacy in the region by doubling the customer satisfaction score • Led on the creation of regional customer experience centres for showcasing emerging technology and driving co-creation engagements.
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Enterprise Business Unit Director, Vodafone Hutchinson AustraliaVodafone 2012 - 2013London, GbAppointed by Vodafone Group Executive Committee as part of the turnaround Australian leadership team. Responsible for a 350-person national B2B sales, marketing, product and channel organisation.• Created a strategy to deliver double digit revenue growth over three years and increase market share, by rationalising channels to market, transforming sales and marketing capability and expanding product portfolio.• Reduced customer churn by half within the first three months and drove sales performance and all value metrics positively within the first six months.• Due to a significant company restructure and shareholder turnaround, I led the restructure to close the business division in order to allow capex investment in network. Executed shut down plan and supported internal and external redeployment of employees.
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Director, Enterprise Strategy & Programme Delivery, Vodafone Group Business ServicesVodafone 2010 - 2012London, GbResponsible for supporting the refresh of the Group Enterprise Strategy and the creation and delivery of global programmes to deliver the strategy. Specific focus areas of:• M2M – roll out of industry’s first global machine-to-machine platform and supporting operating model• One Net (industry first FMC product) - roll out to, IE, SA and India and expansion into VGE for MNC market, 2 million customers within first three years.• Enterprise Mobility – roll out of the mobile security and device management portfolio; and• Design and set up of an integrated digital sales organization to sell converged services.• Led the planning process across markets to ensure a consistent enterprise strategy and execution.
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Head Of Strategic Programmes, Vodafone Group Business ServicesVodafone 2008 - 2010London, GbResponsible for the build of a programme delivery organisation to deliver companywide enterprise transformation programmes.
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Chief Of Staff, Vodafone Group Business ServicesVodafone 2007 - 2008London, GbResponsible for leading the process to define the enterprise strategy to deliver an incremental £1bn in revenue by 2012/13. • Led the design, build of the global VBS organisation, and target-operating model to deliver the full marketing mix. • Defined the budgetary requirements and negotiated requisite funding. Supported the recruitment of the global leadership team and first line management teams.
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Head Of Fixed Mobile Convergence, Group Business Product Marketing, Vodafone Global ServicesVodafone 2006 - 2007London, GbResponsible for the definition of the strategy, roadmap and associated budget and investment required for the global FMC portfolio and go to market.
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Head Of Business Marketing Strategy, Planning & Operations, Group Business MarketingVodafone 2005 - 2006London, GbLed the Business Convergence workstream to define the Group Strategy for the Business segment. This work focused on fixed-mobile convergence, mobile applications, and service. The workstream ran for five months and required the leadership of a senior cross-function, cross- operating company team. The strategy was ratified by the executive community and subsequently the Business segment has higher focus and greater resource allocation.
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Head Of Marketing Operations, Group Business Marketing, Vodafone Global ServicesVodafone 2004 - 2005London, GbSupported the Director of Business Marketing in providing a framework to structure and set the context to drive the transformational change required to deliver Business Marketing throughout the Vodafone Group from strategy to organisational design and delivery.
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Program & Strategy Manager, Hewlett Packard Consulting And IntegrationHewlett Packard Enterprise 2002 - 2004Houston, Texas, UsReporting to the Worldwide General Manager of HP Services Consulting and Integration business (HPS CI), a multi-billion dollar business unit within Hewlett Packard’s services organisation. Specific responsibility for ensuring the implementation of company strategy within the consulting and integration vertical industry teams. Led the offshoring to India of specific software development. Designed a consulting sales model for small to medium business. -
International Business DirectorMusic For Life International, Inc. 1997 - 2002New York, New York, UsResponsible for the management and performance of a €16m P&L, which supported a global charity. Held operational responsibility for the organisation along with business development and partner management in Canada, US, UK, Europe and East/South Africa. Music for life is a self-financing non-profit organisation that helps rebuild war-ravaged communities and supports over 5000 underprivileged orphans in East and South Africa through full time education. -
Administrative ManagerCity College Southampton 1992 - 1996Southampton, Hampshire, GbManaged a caseload of 200 Youth Training Programme trainees with key responsibilities for their welfare and day-to-day administrative support whilst within the training programme.
Ben Elms Skills
Telecommunications
Project Management
Strategic Planning
Sales Management
Enterprise Marketing
Machine To Machine
Fixed Mobile Convergence
Mobile Devices
Mobile Communications
M2m
Strategic Leadership
Team Leadership
Stakeholder Management
Mobile Internet
Product Management
Managed Services
Business Case
Business Transformation
Mobile Technology
Strategy
Telco
Go To Market Strategy
Business Strategy
Business Development
Ben Elms Education Details
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Henley Business SchoolMaster Of Business Administration - Mba -
University Of WinchesterBusiness Administration
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Ben Elms's current role is Chief Executive Officer at Expereo, Investor and Strategic Advisor | Faster to the Future.
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Ben Elms attended Henley Business School, University Of Winchester.
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Ben Elms has skills like Telecommunications, Project Management, Strategic Planning, Sales Management, Enterprise Marketing, Machine To Machine, Fixed Mobile Convergence, Mobile Devices, Mobile Communications, M2m, Strategic Leadership, Team Leadership.
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