Turneo is world's leading experience management software for hotels. We enable hotel chains to manage their entire in-house and external experience offering, helping them deliver unforgettable experiences to their guests.

Responsible for driving Brussels Airport’s innovation agenda, supporting colleagues from across the business in launching their ideas into new products, services and ventures. I was also managing external innovation partners and assessing new investment opportunities.Highlights include launch of Airport Intelligence (airportintelligence.com), investment into SkeyDrone (skeydrone.aero), as well as managing origination and negotiation of investments into Jetpack (jetpack.ai) and DronePort (droneport.eu).

8 months travel break exploring Central and South America, from Cuba and Mexico, through Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama, all the way to Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay and Brazil.

Market Gravity is a specialist proposition design consultancy. I spent 4 awesome years across the US, Canadian, Australian, Hong Kong, Singapore and Dutch MG offices working with corporate entrepreneurs on identifying opportunities, designing and prototyping new products and services, building investment cases and launching new businesses.Example projects I have been involved with:- Helping one of the major telcos expand into retail financial services (Canada)- New venture design for one of the largest energy providers in the country (Australia)- Developing a Business Banking proposition for a global bank (UK, China & Hong Kong)- Exploring a co-branded credit card proposition aimed at a a global technology leader (USA)- Agile, mission-based development of a unique First Time Buyer mortgage proposition (Ireland)- Reinventing a savings product aimed at the affluent retired segment (UK)Market Gravity was acquired by Deloitte in 2017.

Round-the-world travels which led me from the snows of Tanzania, across deserts of Iran to wonders of Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, Burma, Thailand and Indonesia.

AVP in the Personal and Corporate Banking (PCB) Strategy and M&A team.The work I did spanned across more traditional Corporate Strategy as well as Partnerships and M&A. This involved translating the overall global vision into specific business strategies at customer, product, channel and geographic level. I worked on researching, analysing, and synthesising information which we as a team then communicated with the ExCo and the wider business. On the M&A side I worked closely with the ExCo and the Corporate Development team on both proactive and reactive M&A opportunities, both in terms of potential strategic acquisitions and partnerships, as well as loan portfolios available in the market.

Member of PwC's Financial Services Strategy practice.Example projects included:Large UK Private Banking house: Post-RDR product strategy- Developing a post-RDR product strategy as part of a large transformation programme at a major international private bank- Role required extensive knowledge and understanding of RDR as well as current market developments in private banking / wealth managementLarge multinational life insurer: Creation of a pan-European wealth management strategy- Developing a pan-European proposition to allow repositioning towards the affluent customer segment in Europe. This involved significant analysis of the distribution channels and development of alternative distribution models in a number of European locations, including Luxembourg, Berlin, Vienna and WarsawUK non-life insurance business: ‘Loyalty Beyond Reason’- Working on the initial phase of the first ever Loyalty Beyond Reason project in an Insurance firm, assessing the current strategy of a major UK retail insurer and looking at ways it could reinvent it by focusing on customers and retaining their loyaltyInternational insurer: MI and Reporting Strategic Design- Working with the Emerging Markets team at an international insurer to assist them in making a strategic choice of a global MI solution which would support more efficient reporting to Group

- Part-time job throughout my time at university advising students and staff on learning methods, with special emphasis on technology use, including presentation, multimedia and research skills- Managed a technologically advanced educational facility with a capacity of 300 places