Mark Freestone Email & Phone Number

London, GB

London, GB

• Chief Commercial Officer for the investment and corporate banking activities of HSBC in the UK and select international markets. Remit includes investment banking, corporate banking, corporate broking, lending, and.
• Developing and executing business strategies to uplift financial and people performance, whilst aligning with Group and Regional strategies.
• Creating business development tools and plans for execution.
• Managing the local businesses (cost & people management, triaging operational issues).
• Improving internal systems and processes, proactively pushing for enhancements.

London, GB

• Acted as voice and ears for the Global Head of Operations with a broad range of stakeholders across the bank, ensuring the priorities and concerns of the Global Head were pursued.Key achievements:
• Led the development of a new Board-endorsed strategy to govern, improve and coordinate operational activity bank-wide, including activity outside of Global Operations.
• Coordinated Global Operations’ Covid-19 response, working with global service centres and regional teams to report, escalate and solve issues in real-time for top level bank-wide leaders.
• Developed a new people strategy for Global Operations, covering the entire employee lifecycle.

US

• A generalist consultant working across a variety of industries (retail, transport, banking, insurance, property, industrials). My work included strategy, transformation, and cost reduction projects, which include.
• Led workstreams for three transformations in various sectors (including banking); identifying initiatives and launching execution to deliver ~30% financial and operational improvement.
• Performed an in-depth market and business assessment for a large fintech software developer, including identifying key market trends and evaluating growth opportunities.
• Optimised the corporate location strategy for a major bank to reduce cost by 40%.I am a strong problem solver and thought partner, with excellent written and oral communication skills. These are supported by a.

US

Sydney, NSW, AU

• I was a Vice President in Macquarie's London investment banking team, having transferred from Macquarie's Auckland, New Zealand office in 2013.I was primarily involved with the equity capital markets team, developing.
• IPO preparations for companies.
• Project lead on secondary capital raisings for LSE listed entities (NextEnergy Solar Fund's £95m follow on capital raising in November 2014).
• Project lead and primary proposer of equity investment in and project finance of renewable energy projects (£11m Berwick solar power plant).
• The spin out of a global asset portfolio and management team from a major international financial institution.
• Drove improvement and increased efficiency of team functions through increased use of automated business tools and streamlined processes.

Sydney, NSW, AU

• I joined Macquarie, Auckland in the investment banking team in February 2006 as a Graduate, where I was a generalist. I transferred to Macquarie's London investment banking team in 2013 as a Vice President.Experience.
• Led on a day-to-day basis Macquarie’s role with the NZ Treasury on the partial IPOs of state electricity companies Mighty River Power (NZ$3.5bn, first privatisation in 13 years) and Meridian Energy (NZ$3.9bn, largest.
• Managed a team of three for a scoping study of an international financial institution’s NZ$1.2bn New Zealand business, delivering strategic options and recommendations.
• Created internal templates and VBA macro set for presentations at own initiative, which influenced global rollout of presentation template system.I covered a wide range of industries:
• Consumer food retailing
• Agriculture

Masters In Business Administration (Mba)

Bachelor Of Commerce (Bcom) (First Class Honours), Finance And Accounting

Education record