David Snowdon Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, Gb

Responsible for developing the Country Risk and Industry Risk product strategy.• Launched new products and functionality in conjunction with Sales, Marketing and Development teams.• Produced business cases for entry into new business areas - worked with clients, prospects, market participants, sales and market to understand adjacent business areas and size of market opportunity.• Training and certifying sales team on product knowledge and product demonstrations.• Working with sales and marketing teams on new business and retention campaigns.

London, Gb

Responsible for developing BMI's content development strategy across Country Risk and 24 industry services.• Developing BMI's annual content development investment strategy.• Launched new products and promote existing product lines in conjunction with Sales, Marketing and Development teams.• Expanded BMI's analytical portfolio by 40%, including the launch of the Operational Risk service, and the growth of BMI's coverage of African and frontier markets.• Set-up and manged BMI's South Africa Research Team. Responsible for hiring and managing 24 staff across Research, Data and Sub-Editorial functions.• Responsible for BMI's Econometrics & Data, Operational Risk, Production and Sub-Editorial teams, in addition to South Africa office (55 onshore staff)• Responsible for BMI's relationships with outsource offshore partners - including 50FTEs in India across Research, Production and Database building teams

London, Gb

Set-up and managed BMI's Data and Econometrics Team. Responsible for macroeconomic forecast methodologies and forecasting models across 24 industry sectors, as well as data gathering.• Directly managed team of fourteen economists and data analysis, and responsible for forecasting techniques employed by over 100 country risk and industry economists globally• Responsible for quality and coherence of forecasts across 200 countries and territories globally• Product development responsibility for BMI's data offering. Drove multi-year project to build a comprehensive global macro-economic and industry data-set, with data volumes climbing ten-fold• Drove forward wider product development objectives including widening the scope of BMI's written analysis and building a new web platform• Frequent speaker at international conferences, including speeches at organisations as diverse as NATO and the Banking Association of Central and Eastern Europe

London, Gb

Headed up a team of seven analysts, analyzing economic, political and financial market risk in Western and Eastern Europe• Responsible for all analysis and economic forecasting on Europe, which appeared on BMI's online platform and in daily e-mail alerts, as well as in 23 quarterly country reports and 6 monthly reports• Generated forex, debt, equity and derivative market views• Led regular strategy meetings with buy and sell side clients• Promoted from within to lead team

London, Gb

Researched and produced reports for regional business conference. Clerked committee meetings at 3rd Danube Region Business Conference in Bucharest.

Ba (Hons)/Ma (Cantab), History

Postgraduate, International Relations