David Stark Email & Phone Number

Manchester Area, United Kingdom

Helping talented and courageous refugees establish successful and productive working lives in the UK(Please note: If any of my network want to help out on this challenge eg refugee work experience, training or role vacancies, provision of resources, capability and funding to Refugee Action charity etc just contact me directly. Best Dave S)

United Kingdom

Mentor working with impressive SMT mentees in tech eg Bynder and academia eg Aston Business School. Helping talented mentees become what they want to be.

Board advisory Switch CreativeBoard advisory WPP/Bain- KantarBoard advisory Segura (octopus PE)Board advisory Impero (and VC)NXC Green VenturesBoard advisory Infomill (and VC)Advisory VodafoneBoard advisory Business Software Centre LtdNX and Advisory- roles in supply chain, digital marketing, omni-channel, ed tech, cloud, mobility, customer experience, daas, knowledge management, AI, sales tech, VR and AR, e-commerce, smart city, SAM and BI sectors working with PE, VC, Corporate and SME ICT companies.PE and VC operational and commercial due diligenceAdvisory- Action for Children, Age UK and Battersea Dogs and Cats Home charities.

London, United Kingdom

Conversity has made great progress on its journey, some highlights being:> Becoming an award winning long-term supplier to BT across omni-channel sales and service> Achieving growth capital investment from angel, PE institutional and UK Gov sources> Totally revamping dev ops to an agile, Enterprise class SLA driven model whilst migrating platform to AWS cloud> Setting up sales and marketing capability from scratch, executing digital and content marketing programmes, building both AR and PR coverage and winning pilots for its new RIPPL platform with top 20 UK and European brand, retail and telco companies.> Revamping the RIPPL platform roadmap to incorporate trends in micro-services architecture, AI, NLP, personalisation and omni-channel enablement> Introducing an OKR and appraisal based performance culture> Running a highly successful PS and projects line of business> Re branded/positioning company as an intelligent guided sales and services solution company based on its RIPPL platform.> Years of running as a profitable and productive company in a classic cash tight SME environment.> Complied throughout with ISO and GDPR requirements> Conversity clients enjoy a highly reliable and innovative service that enables them to improve CX, NPS, sales and service with their own customer and employee stakeholders.

Quofore was a leading cloud delivered mobile CRM/BI company acquired by AFS in summer 2012- PE partner ABSMy responsibility was to rapidly grow the EMEA operation, improving financial metrics, expanding into new geo and vertical markets, introducing new solutions, managing the full P and L, cash and all functions.Transition of business to subscription model, growth in revenue, success in professional services, improving customer success and solution investment, establishing new successful lines of business in pharma/life sciences sector and France and Eastern Europe, plus building a really talented team and partner network were some highlights.

IR is a leading performance management solutions company focused on sectors such as unified comms, voip, payments platforms and ICT infrastructure.My responsibility was to improve the performance of the European region with full P and L and cross functional accountability, in addition worked with the Board and BCG on the strategic and operational direction for the Global business- took leadership on global professional services strategy and plan.Rapid revenue growth, improving profit, scaling operations in the DACH region, implementing the new Global strategy and establishing a successful new digital/e commerce route to market were a few of the highlights

Princeton was a leading data management and data privacy solutions company acquired by IBM in 2008- PE partner APAXMy responsibility was to rapidly grow and scale the business in Northern Europe and MEA in readiness for planned exitWinning and delivering some large enterprise projects, introduction of new solutions, moving from silo to enterprise sales model, revising the customer engagement process, building a great team and succesful integration into IBM were some of the highlights.

Siebel was the worlds leading CRM- BI, ecommerce, on demand solutions company acquired by Oracle in 2006.My responsibility was to help improve the performance of the UKISA operation, one of the leading international operations of Siebel corporation.Establishing a very accurate forecasting capability, re building the partner network, building a 'one Siebel culture', improving services attachment and utilisation, coaching the SMT, seeing some customer projects nominated for awards, boosting pipeline and revenue for some new innovative solutions and financial budget over performance were some highlights.

Reading, England, United Kingdom

PeopleSoft was one of the worlds leading ERP and BI companies acquired by Oracle in 2005.My responsibility was from startup to establish and grow new lines of business for PeopleSoft, new solutions and vertical markets, post JDE merger ran Enterprise sector go to market.Building a great team, productivity of the enterprise team, exceeding budgets 5 years in a row, building an effective partner and alliances ecosystem, successfully integrating acquisitions, seeing some customer projects nominated for awards, improving services attachment and utilisation and successfully opening up or expanding markets such as public sector, higher ed, professional services automation, TMT, retail and BI, CRM and SCM were some highlights.By the time of the Oracle takeover the Enterprise business was > 100m revenue software and services business.

QAD is a leading ERP systems provider.My responsibility was to run a Global major accounts business unit focused on the Consumer Products sector, this involved running a team spread across the world in a matrix organisational structure.Developing one of QAD's top clients, customer co development of new solutions, winning and delivering successful projects in North America and winning and delivering successful projects in developing markets such as LATAM and India were some of the highlights.