Consultancy | Operational management | Programme delivery | Client liaison | Stakeholder management | Business analysis | Scale-upsA highly experienced, commercially-aware operations executive with 30+ years of international IT experience. Unique ability to bridge the gap between customers, business and engineering teams.My skills and insights have been acquired through international roles at Microsoft and UNHCR amongst others. In recent years I have focused on supporting the scale up of start-ups, driven by insights gained from multiple tech due diligence assignments on behalf of private equity clients.This breadth of experience provides me with a unique toolkit, highly translatable across different regions and business sectors, to drive delivery of complex projects and build value for companies looking to accelerate growth.My added value- Unique focus on translating tech speak into layman’s language, customer pain points into profitable innovation.- Extensive experience in leading client delivery and successfully driving complex IT projects, requiring agile leadership of large, virtual teams and multiple stakeholders located across different time zones and different cultures.- As a leader, I move comfortably between strategic thinking and detail-focused delivery.- Innovative and pragmatic problem-solver who always has an eye on the end goal and will keep things moving forward.- Entrepreneurial mindset, comfortable starting from scratch. Particularly adept at understanding the mindset, needs and challenges of startups moving to scale.- Global perspective: I have lived and worked across the world, including 20 years in France, 6 in the US, and multiple missions across Asia and AfricaI am a people person; forthright, outgoing, and inclusive by nature. I will instinctively build relationships with all key players but I will challenge the orthodoxy if I believe a different approach can lead to a better outcome.