Bob Booth Email & Phone Number

Kenilworth, GB

Espoo, FI

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.

Espoo, FI

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.

Warwick, GB

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).

Warwick, GB

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.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

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.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

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.

Dublin 2, IE

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.

Dublin 2, IE

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.

Paris, France, FR

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.

Paris, France, FR

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.

Paris, France, FR

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.

London, GB

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.

Chapeltown, Sheffield, GB

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.

Derby, Derbyshire, GB

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

Doncaster, South Yorkshire, GB

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.

London, England, GB

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.

Fca, Fellow Of The Institure Of Chartered Accountants

Chmc, Management Consultancy

Bsc, Mathematics (Umist)

Bfp, Busienss & Finance Professional