A start-up SaaS social media technology company with a focus on social media:• Co-ordinated, managed and closed two equity fund raisings from institutional investors and family offices;• Implemented new processes and systems aligned with the growing business to ensure effective and efficient management of company resources across a broader platform.

Olive Communications employ in excess of 150 staff, managing over 1000 business customers with more than 110,000 business users and significantly more corporate citizens. Through organic growth and acquisition Olive have became one of the fastest growing Comms Integrators and were included in the Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100 in the past three consecutive years, ranking 48th in 2015. Olive is institutionally backed, with significant growth capital investment from The Business Growth Fund (BGF) who provide minority investment to some of the UK's fastest growing companies.We provide our customers a fully managed service across the four cornerstones of IT Infrastructure; Voice, Data, Applications and Hardware and our ethos is to obsess about customer satisfaction and delivering solutions that provide competitive advantage, cost reduction and enhanced workforce productivity. Our suite of business critical applications deliver industry leading workforce management tools for any distributed workforce integration including automation of Health, Safety & Compliance to field based employees. The Olive team are vibrant, imaginative, expert and highly professional and are able to adapt quickly to meet the most demanding of customer requirements, with agility and enthusiasm.Our objective is simple; to provide customers with an "Always Connected" experience, supplying and managing network end points that are right for the job, and meaningful applications and content that improve business performance and transformational improvement relevant to each individual customers requirements

Private Equity / Venture Capital• Working with the Data Science team, conducted a customer-centric review of Key Performance Indicators for an investee company in online gaming sector, introduced an optimized set of KPIs, and dynamic monitoring;• Oversaw the development of KPI based budgets for the 2018 financial year and forecasts to 2020, including a capital allocation process and RoI led methodology;• Developed a portfolio valuation methodology based on a review of market comparable companies, which was used to drive investment decisions and introduce operational strategies to maximize value.

An investor / operator focused on technology led education SaaS businesses.• Managed a successful equity fund-raise, managed financial advisors, preparation of the investor memorandum, led the due diligence process;• Raised working capital facility to fund operational improvement;• Outsourced the accounting function of various companies to improve efficiency and cost effectiveness;• Developed new budgeting and business planning processes, supported by operational and financial KPI bench-marking process.

Frankfurt listed holding company with interests in multi-national technology businesses.• Sold the stake of an existing fund investor to a Private Equity fund and secured new investment capital from the fund;• Restructured and financially stabilised the Group through disposal of non-core divisions, closing cash negative operations, generating shareholder value and repaying previously non-performing loan;• Financial management & control, business planning, working capital management, legal, IT, HR, investor relations, external advisers, leading a finance and ops team of 25 staff.

Video game development company and on-line video game publisher.• Led the sale of the publishing business division;• Implemented a cost reduction plan, dlivering profitability and positive cash flow;• Led the administration process of under-performing operating company.

A Kuwait listed construction contracting group with operations in Kuwait, Qatar, and the UAE.• Appointed by the majority shareholder, a Private Equity fund, to lead a turnaround of the business;• Led a review of Group cash flow, optimised cash flow management, renegotiated loan arrangements and raised new project credit lines;• Completed the implementation of a new SAP reporting system to improve the site information collection, flow and to drive decision making processes;• Negotiated debt-for-equity swap to improve group liquidity;• Structured and completed a management buy-out of a division to support activity in other, more lucrative markets.

Abraaj Capital is the largest independent Private Equity fund manager in the Middle East.• Worked with investee companies post the economic crises to redefine their business strategies, implement business plans, and cash flow management;• Closed multiple new credit lines to provide working capital for investee companies to grow and build their businesses;• Reviewed and updated portfolio management processes, introduced an investee company health check and risk reporting system, and developed monthly monitoring processes;• Implemented new ERP systems in investee companies to improve monthly reporting and to provide information to assist the decision making process.

SynCap is an independent financial advisory services company focussed on the transportation sector, providing advice on mergers and acquisitions, fund raising, and tax structuring.

Coronation Capital is an Investment Bank, being part of the Coronation Group on of the largest independent Asset Manager in South Africa with global portfolio of funds under management.

Mettle Limited is an independent Investment Bank, responsible for providing financial advisory services.

Responsibility for group financial function, management of treasury operations, and taxation.