I lead Professional Services function at Basware and am a member of the Basware Executive Team. I lead a team of over 200 people globally who are responsible for delivering customer value through shaping, selling, implementing and transforming Basware solutions.Achievements:- co-created and sponsoring delivery delivery of a transformation plan with my Professional Services leaders- executive sponsor of partner ready product transformation programme- governance of Copilot GenAI programme- executive leadership of major customer transformation projects and governing several large customer relationships

In April 2022, Accel KKR acquired Basware which is now a private equity funded scale-up.Basware is recognised as the industry leader in Accounts Payable Automation, supported by Basware’s AI/ML-powered solution, and after the AKKR acquisition the company has embarked an ambitious growth strategy. My role was to enable that growth through the sales function.Achievements:- enhanced the value realisation methodology where benefits promised in the initial business case are delivered through the professional services engagement, and then measured post go live- co-created the Basware, client & partner RACI used to sell and deliver with partners- helped to sell and deliver some of Basware’s biggest deals in 2023- highlighted product improvement opportunities in the software estate and led a project to invest in improvements - supported colleagues to drive the ethical usage of AI in Basware including helping to hire the new head of AI

Since early 2021, I have been providing coaching & non-exec support for IT start-ups ranging from healthcare, transportation, energy, property management and procurement: - business planning & strategy, - go-to-market (offerings, product strategy, pricing, channel strategy, marketing & social), - IT, AI & product road map (including ethical Generative AI), - capability & talent planning & execution, and - funding and exit planningStart-up founders and boards I have helped since 2021 include:- Arjun Dhaul, Advisory Board Member & former Chief Commercial Officer, of Mobio Interactive Inc, a digital well being and health product- Dr Nasser Siabi OBE, CEO at Microlink, a company that provides technology and aims to help 100 million disabled people- Dr Seyed Sadr and Amir Khaki, founders of CAESL an energy and water environmental transformation start-up business - James Pick, founder at Konnexsion, a property management start up- Jonny Dunning and & Tim Williams, co-founders of Zivio, an E2E services procurement start-up- Beth Pilgrim & Aoise Keogan-Nooshabadi, co-founders of Supply Change, a social procurement start-up- Robert Sobcak, in his bid to bring sustainable last mile logistics to Prague City

As of July 2023, I left my role in consulting with IBM to focus on my start up AI Ethicals full-time. I was engaged as interim head of strategy enablement at Basware, in parallel to my other start-up up advisory roles.

As part of the new IBM consulting transformation, IBM pivoted from a service line led business to a functionally led business, and I led the finance & supply chain part of IBM's consulting business and led large transformational deals.Finance and Supply Chain, encompassed Consulting, BPO, Industry 4.0, SAP, Oracle & Workday. Supporting client transformations in Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, PLM, Intelligent Manufacturing and Asset Management.My achievements include:- Supporting sales and delivery of business transformation projects enabled by SAP S/5HANA in consumer foods, oil & gas and energy- Led the assimilation of the Consulting, BPO, Intelligent Connected Operations and ERP practices and service lines into one team, built collaboration and joint offerings across the teams- Sponsored the work to reinvent the way IBM approaches shared service and BPO transformation (now IBM Elevate)- Shaped and coached on the creation of a Supply Chain sustainability practice and platform- Drove material improvements in female and female leader diversity in finance and supply chain consulting- AI Ethics Squad Leader for People with Diverse Abilities (PWDA) focussed on Neurotech- Drove marketing, eminence, and social media across Finance & Supply Chain Transformation

I joined IBM to grow my skills in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and to help to deliver Mark Foster's GBS vision transforming and growing IBM’s advisory business.I led the Cognitive Process Reengineering(CPR) service line in UKI and Europe. This was made up of 5 practices of finance, supply chain & procurement, talent & and HR transformation), Blockchain and industry core process. I am proud to have built a team of talented leaders across markets and practices, who built and grew the business, whilst also driving diversity & inclusion, growing the external brand and opening & growing key client accounts.My achievements include: - Leading the shaping, sale and delivery of business transformation projects enabled by SAP S/4 Hana and Ariba in Hospitality, Consumer Goods, Defence, and Life Sciences - Led the growth and development of the European CPR business and its talent. Grown consulting sales by 225% from 2017 to 2019- Building & growing practices and offerings - Supply Chain & Procurement, Blockchain, Health and Banking Industry - Led the rapid development of cross GBS COVID offerings and supported the consulting businesses to navigate the storm - Lead the development of an Experience Led Transformation Methodology, leveraging Design Thinking to develop integrated roadmaps and business case for large-scale technology transformations - Writing multiple IBV white papers, LinkedIn articles, IBM UKI Blogs, and FT Supply Chain Paper - Designing and facilitating a Procurement Hackathon at Digital Procurement World in 2019

I took on the leadership of Consulting, Technology as well as BPO for Procurement for Products in Europe, Africa & Latin America (EALA).Achievements:- Built an integrated team of leaders across consulting, technology & BPO who generated sales of over $200m per annum- Led BPO sales team generating over $100m per annum; lead the largest deals in sourcing, procurement and accounts payable - Sold and led the delivery of Ariba upstream projects for production parts for an Automotive OEM to manage £200bn of production parts spend- Supported multiple Zero Base Budget (ZBB) cost reduction & procurement technology strategy & roadmap projects in life science, food & consumer goods- Supported the creation and integration of RPA into procurement BPO and co- created a procurement analysis BPO offering- Co-authored Procurement’s Next Frontier thought leadership paper

I joined Accenture to built the Procurement BPO business in the Products Sector (Consumer Goods & Services, Automotive & Industrial Equipment, Retail and Life Sciences) from less than $5m annual sales to $100m a year in three years. I built a team that shaped, designed, sold and supported the implementation of new global operating models for procurement and accounts payable optimising people, process, technology, data and analytics.Achievements include: - Built a diverse sales and solutions team for Procurement BPO for Products EALA - Sold multiple procurement BPO deals achieving team sales of $100m per annum - Shaped and sold multiple Indirects and Raws & Packs Procurement Operating Models (captive, hybrid and BPO) for Food, Beverage, Consumer Goods and Life Science Companies, including sales and delivery of a global Ariba deployment - Shaped and supported delivery for Alcobev company to repurpose Regional Procurement Centres in Africa and Latin America, including technology roadmap and service management integration - Led innovation into the Future of Procurement Analytics and Future of Procurement Technology

I led the start up of Capgemini’s Procurement BPO business in Europe, as head of BPO Procurement for EMEA. After the acquisition of IBX, an SAP SRM on demand eProcurement and procurement services business, my role was to lead BPO Procurement BPO Solutions for EMEA and to support the post merger integration of the newly acquired IBX business, and drive marketing activities. Achievements include:- Worked with the founders of IBX to build an integrated leadership team through the formation of Capgemini Procurement Services- Built initial solution models and led solutioning for several Global and pan-European BPO deals- Led BPO Procurement product management and supported Capgemini Procurement Services marketing activities

I led Capgemini’s account relationships with various UK and global water companies and energy companies. Provided sales & delivery relationship support around a wide range of business and IT projects, including SAP, custom build technology & data, in business areas that included smart meters, TMA, PR09 planning, Telemetry, IT Strategy and Information Transformation.

Transferring to Capgemini with the E&Y acquisition, I led and grew the Supply Chain Solutions Practice. Responsibilities included offerings, sales and delivery of supply chain solutions services and interfacing with SAP, Oracle, Architecture and Supply Chain teams.Achievements include: - Responsible for development of new team propositions including ePOS for POS switchover, RFID etc- Increased utilisation of the team & reduced attrition from more than 15% to zero- Responsible for deployment & change for the global deployment of SAP SRM for a major consumer products company- Deployed Oracle iProcurement into UK bank and Major UK government department- Developed multiple eProcurement business cases across sectors - Developed materials and delivered eProcurement training at Capgemini’s university in France- Managed the relationships with supply chain vendors

Having identified SAP as a strategic technology direction, I moved out of industry to join E&Y’s SAP practice, leveraging my finance & business experience.Working on large scale ERP implementations with SAP, Oracle and Ariba, achievements included:- Global deployment of SAP R/3 Finance for global energy company. Responsible for a variety of responsibilities including Indirect Tax (VAT), post implementation support etc- Responsible for localisation of global template for deployments of SAP R/3 for global construction and global oil & gas companies- UK deployment of Ariba 5.0 Downstream for a global UK-based insurance company. E&Y's first Ariba implementation in the UK- Responsible for deployment of Oracle iProcurement project with Capgemini, with customisation of permanent & temporary labour solution

In 1996, I joined OCF, an IT start-up that sold integrated solutions in the Education, Studio & Engineering (PTC/SDRC/Catia software) sectors. OCF bundled hardware (Silicon Graphics, HP & IBM), design, education and studio software and financing to create integrated solutions. I was responsible for the management of the full business lifecycle from sales quotation to cash and purchase to pay for this rapidly growing IT hardware, software & financing business during turbulent trading conditions. My teams managed the process from receipt of sales order to delivery of completed, engineered IT software and hardware solution on to the subsequent cash collection and accounting. I also managed operational relationships with Silicon Graphics, OCF’s major strategic partner.

Undertook a range of roles: system development, systems management, line accounting and internal audit.

Trainee accountant through to qualified Chartered Accountant in a small three partner firm, Wheaters, now Allots Chartered Accountants. Varied experience from financial and management accounting, taxation, business planning and forecasting. Led the development of automated systems. Managed a portfolio of clients.Qualified in top 20 of Chartered Accountants in the UK in 1991.Co-founded and chaired ICAEW District Student Society, ICAEW District IT Group, represented Sheffield on ICAEW National Student Society, represented ICAEW at National Union of Students Annual Conference on Elections Committee.

Co-founded and chaired ICAEW Sheffield & District Student Society, ICAEW Sheffield & District IT Group, represented Sheffield on ICAEW National Student Society, represented ICAEW at National Union of Students Annual Conference on Elections Committee.

Wrote and published Hunt for Ebony Tower, a BBC Micro text adventure game, with Alligata Software in Sheffield.