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United Kingdom

London, London, Gb

Deliver operational excellence and financial success across the business to maximise Private Equity earnout. Developed value-add strategies to enhance acquisition target appeal and post-deal performance• Spearhead the post-merger integrations. Standardise processes, realise synergies in areas such as vendor selection/procurement, as well as best practice across finance and operations.• Create financial models to analyse performance metrics, and implement the strategy to improve.• Re-design the product to cut costs, whilst simultaneously overachieving on delivery and customer satisfaction.• Key stakeholder to the investors and sponsors, to ensure goal alignment in respect to exits.• Continue to mitigate any associated risks, especially in the newly acquired investments.Notable achievements: • Successful completion of two acquisitions with a combined purchase price of up to $0.4bn.• Exceed the cost saving required in the acquisition case within 4 weeks of the completion date.

London, London, Gb

Built and integrated the Finance and Operations team into Hyve, following the acquisition of Shoptalk, Groceryshop, Fintech Meetup & Retail Meetup. • Create, recruit and transition the finance team across the US and UK into Hyve.• Integrate best practice & controls into the finance function.• Key business partner to the CFO, CEO & EVP Americas.• Drove consistent growth of 20% YOY across the portfolio, with an incremental gross margin of 50%.Notable achievements: • Complete restructure of the Finance team.• Finance system integration, from Microsoft Quick books, to Microsoft AX, to SAP.• Developing the strategy for a Shoptalk Geo-clones in Chicago and Abu Dhabi.• Reduced operations cost by 21% yoy within the largest event.• Key business partner in the launches of Fintech Meetup (Las Vegas), and Shoptalk Europe (Barcelona).• Created a finance structure to support the US portfolio as well as UK group, consolidating roles & responsibilities to minimise cost of hiring between the demographics.

Houston, Texas, Us

NYSE listed Fortune 500 distributor of Pipes, Valves and Fitting products and automation services to the Energy and Petrochemical industry. Operating 200 branches across 20 countries.Overall responsibility for financial control, governance and strategy of key growth region for the group.• 7 countries, 16 branches, statutory directorship of 12 legal entities. Revenue responsibility of £0.5bn. • Lead a team of 25. Reporting to the VP of Finance, and working alongside the Regional VP’s• Responsible for budget planning & performance, cash flow, strategic planning and implementation, compliance with local statutory requirements, US GAAP reporting and group SOX.• Centralise treasury & banking relationships dealing in 7 currencies: hedging, cash pooling & asset based financing.• Preparation of proposals for acquisition & operational projects, assist in defining specific organisational requirements. Notable achievements: • Led creation of transformational strategy to deliver an incremental £15m EBIT • Reduced SG&A by 50% in a three year period and improved EBITDA by 7%• Implemented SAP, consolidating 10 systems and setting up shared service centres. Rolled out ADP payroll, Concur EMS & AMEX travel program.• Improved ROCE from 12% to 20% by improving stock turn & matching DSO to DPO• Created and executed a strategy to reposition away from commoditised, high cost to serve with no halo products. Focusing on high margin cross over products where we can dominate the category increased Gross Margins and efficiency.• Restructure of the finance team from an in-country model to a shared service, with £1m on-going SG&A savings.• Reduced SG&A by 5% by consolidating spend across Asia Pacific, negotiating improved terms with key vendors and focusing on productivity benchmarking. Permanent improvement in EBIT of £3.5m.• Reduced the DSO/DPO gap by 27 days, permanently releasing £21m of working capital.• Completed and integrated acquisitions in Thailand and Singapore.

Houston, Texas, Us

• 5 countries, 7 branches. Revenue responsibility of £0.2bn.• Accountable for budget planning & performance, external & internal audit, tax, local statutory IFRS compliance, US GAAP reporting and group SOX.• Analysis of financial data to forecast results and develop relevant plans to support the operational strategy, such as Inventory management, reducing potential provision by £2.3m.• Direct financial decisions through on-going development, monitoring, and enforcing of policies and procedures. Documenting regional revisions to ensure internal compliance.Notable achievements: • Established MRC location in Shanghai, from inception to £1m EBIT business. • Re-organisation of distribution network resulting in an on-going saving of £3m in logistics costs.• Lead and developed a change of incentive plans for sales staff, increasing engagement and reducing staff turn by 20%.• Development of 3 key members of the finance team from junior roles to Finance Manager, Senior Analyst and Accounts Payable Supervisor.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Consolidation of regional results, monthly review of all 22 OPCO accounts and subsequent variance analysis highlighting sales trends and OPEX savings.• Perform statistical modelling and cost benefit analysis to determine appropriate business strategy, that lead to either efficiency or cost savings. Assessed profitability of Kazakhstan and Indonesia in country models, improving gross margin recoverability and avoiding £3.8m proposed CAPEX spend. Notable achievements: • Rolled out the first zero based budget to the International entities, challenging the business to focus on costs such as T&E which lastingly reduced by £0.3m per annum.

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Se

NASDAQ OMX listed Nobia group is one of the world’s largest kitchen companies, vertically integrated with a collection of 21 brands. Covering value to premium markets, with a European retail and B2B presence - $3bn turnover.Recruited to drive financial and product analytics through the commercial team, creating market strategy. Production of analytical financial and marketing based reports. Budget responsibility along with creation of financial forecasts. Management of 6 external agencies. Value creation in specific project work associated with business improvements. Supporting the business decisions within the retail and trade sector.Analysis of the trade base allowed a subsequent targeted Christmas campaign on higher margin products, leading to the most profitable trading period.

Paris, La Défense, Fr

London, Gb

Co-owner and founder of Listen Loud Ltd, A Consumer Electronics Company. Listen Loud began trading in household electrical goods but ultimately specialised as a TV and Audio provider, having its own registered office and distribution point, servicing larger individual clients in addition to its website. Typical orders created were for the import, secure storage and delivery of circa £250,000 orders for 1,000 Televisions for nationwide clients.Winner of Young Entrepreneur of the Year

Ba Hons, Economics

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