Chris Weller Email & Phone Number

Birmingham, Gb

Birmingham, Gb

London, England, Gb

Toqio enables any business to launch embedded finance propositions for their business or consumer customers in a matter of days. Working with Toqio removes the need for businesses to develop, build and manage complex software solutions by instead launching their own applications to market on our pre-built, fully white-labelled, no-code platform.Businesses can go from concept to market in a matter of days just by; - Configuring the mix of products you want for your customers from our pre-built range across Digital Banking, Card Programmes, Digital Treasury or Financing - Choosing from our pre-integrated fintech and financial services partners or simply connect your own - Applying your own branding right across the platform to create unique customer facing mobile and web applications to suit your needs - Pushing live and innovating with our fully hosted and managed platform and continual innovation pipeline

Interim CEO for Avon Mutual, aiming to build and launch one of the UK's first new breed of Mutual Bank in service to prosperity and fairness across the local community. Provided Interim CEO services to support continued development of Regulatory Business Plan, updates to investment model and requirements, liaison with PRA/FCA and executive management across team.

London, England, Gb

Chief Commercial Officer at Allica Bank, one of the UK's newest SME banks. Joined the business to set the commercial strategy, support the development and submission of the banks Regulatory Business Plan (RBP) to the PRA/FCA and to successfully launch the business to market.Having received our licence in September 2019 and launching in the October, the business has gone from strength to strength. Having joined with just over 20 employees, the business now employees over 150 people and has delivered a strong proposition to customers and brokers, recognised with three awards from the NACFB recognising for our performance during 2020. Within this role I held executive accountability for Sales, Marketing and lending/deposit product development. Member of the Executive, Asset & Liability, Risk Management and Operations Committees. Regular Board attendee and nominated spokesperson. SMF 6.

GENIAC is a high growth technology business, founded by serial entrepreneurs, with investment from Grant Thornton LLP (GT). Having grown its customer base 10 fold and the team from 20 to 75 in the last year, Geniac provides Entrepreneurs & SME owners with a platform to automate a range of back office administrative tasks, (Accounting, HR, Payroll, Legal & Company Secretarial) saving them time and providing better visibility across their business.As Sales & Marketing Director, I provide the strategic direction for Geniac across all matters related to Customer & Revenue growth, alongside being the accountable Executive for People & Talent within the business. I have functional leadership for the Sales, Marketing and Customer Support teams as well as ensuring that we are able to find/hire great talent and continually provide development opportunities and a great culture for team retention.Key Activities: Leadership, Sales, Revenue, Acquisition, Marketing, Online, Growth, Strategy, Partnerships, Channel Sales, Start-Up, Entrepreneurial Direction, Team Development, Scaleability, Business Services, Authentic Leadership, Salesforce.

Reading, Gb

UK focused Challenger Bank (SME & personal - Savings, Mortgages, Commercial Mortgages, Asset Finance, Invoice Finance). Founded in 2009 with Private Equity (AnaCap) ownership and publically listed at IPO in 2015 before moving into FTSE 250. Grown to £5.6bn net loans and £5.4bn in deposits, with over 850 staff across 14 sites.Functional Sales leadership of 62 staff located across 9 UK sites. Responsible for delivering over £10m of income through a 20% annual growth in new client acquisition and 15% improvement in per client income. Following strategic business review appointed by ExCo to deliver transformational change & embed high performance culture. • Delivered £10m income and new client growth (20% increase) along with functional cost control (OPEX c. £4m).• Devised functional strategy including direct client acquisition strategy, Sales Excellence program and embedding core sales fundamentals. • Increased direct to bank client.Key Activities: Sales Strategy, Cross-Sell, Business Transformation, Sales Leadership, P&L Management, Capex, Opex, Margin Enhancement, Growth Strategy, Private Equity, IPO, Sales Excellence, Direct Channel, Channel Management, technology, high performance culture, team development, people development, coaching, mentoring.

Reading, Gb

Reporting to Deputy CEO, responsible for defining and enabling business unit (Residential/Commercial Mortgages, Asset Finance, Invoice Finance) Commercial strategy. Additionally, responsible for growing ‘cross sell’ origination and implementing group wide commercial initiatives. • Established bank wide ‘cross sell’ project resulting in over £20m of new ‘cross sell’ originations.• Delivered ‘one bank’ approach to Introducer management.Key Activities: Commercial Strategy, Cross sell, Programme Management, Business Transformation, Segmentation.

Solihull, West Midlands, Gb

UK’s leading sustainable building materials and construction services company, employing over 6000. Following financial crisis the business was facing declining sales and margin compression, whilst positioning for a trade sale. I held key Commercial roles during Anglo American ownership and during the joint venture process before transitioning to the newly formed Lafarge Tarmac.Lead for the creation and execution of Sales strategy across the UK group, reporting to Group Sales Director, alongside key roles within the JV process. Responsibility for functional strategy planning, embedding of transformational change programs and embedding sales force effectiveness. In addition, responsible for priority board initiative, establishing the business case and securing board approval alongside planning and execution, exceeding target with £12m of additional income through price enhancement.• Led creation of Customer profitability tool to drive improved contract recovery and customer level decisioning.• Implemented Price Management process across sales team.Key Activities: Sales Leadership, Sales Strategy, Business Transformation, Team Development, Coaching, Commercial Excellence, Price Management, Commercial Training & Development, Customer Insight, Communications, B2B.

Solihull, West Midlands, Gb

Responsible for executing and driving adoption of Sales improvement projects, best practice disciplines and Sales operational tools across regional Sales teams.• Instigated a CRM tool, driving a 28% increase in portfolio customer sales visits. Key Activities: Sales Process, Sales Excellence, Project Management, Change Management, Sales Strategy, Sales Operations, Price Management, Coaching.

Norwalk, Ct, Us

Financial services division of a multi-national business employing over 200,000 staff across the globe. Promoted to multiple Sales roles in the UK (B2B direct and via channel) and business transformation across EMEA regions (Asset Finance, Fleet Services and Working Capital Solutions and Commercial Distribution Finance). - Led pan-European project teams, utilising Lean Six Sigma, to drive process/cost reduction.- Pioneered the use of ‘Lean Bootcamp’ resulting in $1.5m of income generation. Key Activities: Lean, Six Sigma, Value Mapping, Process workout, Kaizen, European Business Excellence, Multiple Region, Change Management (CAP), Project Management, Black Belt.

Norwalk, Ct, Us

- Managed Apple programme, delivering over £35m of volumes.- Grew margin contribution and achieved 246% of profitability targets.Key Activities: Strategic Account Management, Value Creation, Strategic Account Planning, Transactional Efficiency, Key Account Management, CRM, and Customer Experience.

Norwalk, Ct, Us

Following promotion from Commercial Support Associate, achieved Top 3 Sales performer in EMEA.Key Activities: Account Management, Account Planning, Negotiation, CRM, Pricing and Documentation.

Oxford Fintech Programme

Llb, Law

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