Bill Drakopoulos Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, VIC, AU

Melbourne, Australia

• Co-ordinate the development and delivery of Praemium’s Managed Accounts product roadmap.
• Working closely with the Product, Sales and IT teams in an agile environment to identify and scope product improvement opportunities, and the Marketing and Sales teams to launch and promote new products and features.
• Define a vision for the product through developing a product roadmap that responds to the needs of our key clients, regulatory and technology changes and establishes Praemium as the leading managed accounts provider in.
• Research competitor products (in terms of pricing, feature and functionality gaps) and quantify the market potential, including completion of financial analysis of the product's cost and margin
• Identify and evaluate suppliers of financial product custody, execution and data services that are used as part of the overall product offer
• Work with the distribution partners, the sales team, suppliers and other stakeholders to document user stories, research user behaviour and needs, evaluate features based on analysis of primary and side use cases, and.

Melbourne, Australia

• Managing the financial services product insurance portfolio
• Oversee end to end product lifecycles to ensure expected commercial and customer outcomes are achieved
• Developing and executing short to mid-term product strategies using agile development methodologies to deliver key customer and financial objectives
• Manage issues, maintain policies, support service standards and observe business rules relating to product development
• Partner with Sales and Marketing teams to make product-related decisions and identify sales opportunities
• Enhance existing product and service offerings

Melbourne, Australia

- Responsible for designing, developing and manufacturing new direct-to-consumer products for AMP- Responsible for setting the strategy for the direct to consumer market and ensuring I have support from the head of product and GM- New direct to consumer life insurance product launched from idea, business case to implementation- New direct to consumer.

Melbourne, Australia

- Personally delivered the wholesale strategy for the Navigator platform including pricing and positioning in the market the executive team- Developed the Navigator SMSF strategy and partnered with industry specialists to position the Navigator platform as the core investment platform for our SMSF offer to the market- Conducted training for BDMs to bring.

Melbourne, Australia

Distribution Development New Accounts- Personally introduced and worked with over 80 new dealer groups for Aviva- Worked with each dealer group on various initiatives ranging from, sponsorships, marketing, strategies, preferred provider arrangements (rebates), badging/wholesale deals, strategic equity stakes.- Deals with over 40 dealer groups including 2.

Melbourne, Australia

- Managing the investment products of State Trustees including, Preparing performance reports for the board; Direct contact for all investment fund managers; Regular meetings with heads of the investment managers to negotiate agreements and manage the approved product list- Managing a team of 2 analysts- Quarterly Board Papers- Delivery of the quarterly.

Melbourne, Australia

Achievements - Product Investment Options - Direct Equities- Introduced direct equities onto the Navigator investment platform including investment and superannuation products- Designed the front end trading screens for customers (advisers)- Personally introduced instalment warrants and other security types onto the investment platform- Expanded the list.

Bachelor Of Economics

Financial Planning And Services

Activities and Societies: Diploma of Financial Services (Financial Planning)