Ashley Barlow Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

London, GB

Leading across Business Transformation, CIO Advisory and Technology Transactions Services for Corporate, Private Equity and Venture Capital clients.

London, London, GB

Business Design & Transformation. Sourcing, IT Strategy, Cost Optimisation, Operating Models & Change, Transaction Support and Growth.

London, GB

Technology Strategy, Transactions & Transformation,Digital & Emerging Technology,Strategic Sourcing,CIO Advisory,Operating Models and Performance Improvement,Transformation Programmes,Business Change,Programme Assurance and Advisory.Plus:IT M&A Transactions advice and support to corporate and private equity clients across the transaction life-cycle.

While CIO and Owner at Bright Red Solutions Ltd.A group of consulting leaders with a broad range of skills and sector experience.Working with organisations varying in size between multi-national and small-to-medium sized companies.A virtual structure results in minimal overheads to deliver best value for money to our clients. Membership is by Invitation.

CIO while CIO and Owner at Bright Red Solutions Ltd.Build for Sale:MBO achieved at c300% of opening market value - in a market trending 20-30% down YoY,MBO success attributed to transformation of the business into an online operation:Core systems refresh and transformation of customer insight, online channels, pricing, customer experience and web.

Interim, supporting VRM growth and expansion into senior technology talent sourcing.Operations and Business Process Review,While CIO and Owner at Bright Red Solutions Ltd.

New York, NY, US

Interim Operations Director while CIO and Owner at Bright Red Solutions Ltd. Operational review for McCann's online and offline advertising business, including incubation of McCann Metro brand,Making the shift from Press, Print, TV, to Online and Digital,Finance function restructure,End to end review of Studio Automation and Traffic Management systems.

Creation of a 5 year, technology, customer insight, customer experience and business change strategy and roadmap,Conceived and delivered the integrated Virgin Atlantic 'TravelPlus' conceptCore Reservations System specification and selection, replacing legacy systems and placing VHols at the forefront of the digital and disruptive travel technology.

Redwood City, CA, US

Interim leadership of European Oracle, Data Warehousing and Online Teams during a period of platform transition, Alignment of major European Programmes for the Publishing and Distribution business,Sarbanes Oxley regulatory compliance.

State-of-the-art parcel track & trace solution from concept to delivery, solving the 'Final Mile' logistics and reverse logistics challenges for clients including IBM, DHL, Lynx, Parcelforce and others across a network over over 10,000 parcel pick-up and drop-off points.* Logistics, Reverse Logistics, B2C Online and Field Services Engineer sectors* IT.

Contract: Alignment of US and European IT capabilities and platforms inc: Data Centres, ERP solutions, Content delivery and VCall Financial Market Information webcasting as the business was becoming a plc.Post-Merger Integration planning,NetApp Filer and Akamai content distribution selection and implementation,Development of Multi-channel e-commerce.

Group IT Director for the combined businesses of Topjobs.net and Jobscout24.com across 12 European countries, via an in-house, centralised Data Centre, Data-Warehouse and Software as a Service SaaS capability responsible for:Technology Mergers and Acquisitions,Data Centre creation, development and expansion,Leadership of market-leading technology.

Rümlang, Zürich, CH

Transformational Technology, ERP, Operational and Business change leadership across a group of autonomous engineering businesses, including building for sale.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Business Information Systems