Gary Fox Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

• Developed and delivered TCS services through SOW bid management & engagements. Roles from Project Consultant, PMO, Program & Delivery Management for Tata Steel, ASDA, GSK, Busch, Pfeiffer, Shell & others.Key.
• From my Business-Side M&A exposure I developed internal thought leadership with market facing materials toposition TCS to win M&A advisory clients to capitalise on technology carve out or integration opportunities.
• Scrum Master delivering S4/HANA system integrations for ASDA stores and George stores; ‘Future Operations’.
• Led PMO for S4/HANA transformation & IT separation of Tata Steel UK & NL operations.
• Supported GSK data dispositioning supporting licensed pharma manufacturing and distribution agreements.

London, United Kingdom

I recently had the pleasure of working with NTT DATA and everis on a historic M&A integration. Developing and proposing an integration strategy; helping them navigate the planning and execution requirements; proposing an M&A governance structure. It was exciting to help both businesses on their integration journey to support UK/Group business growth.

Newbury

My employment at Micro Focus was focused on delivering integration plans as a member of the IMO for the HPS acquisition which closed September 1st 2017, and the acquisition of assets for the SUSE business from HPE in March 2017. The HPS integration work has been managed in partnership with a global consultancy practice and completed in April 2019.

Bracknell, UK

• Responsible for the program management of select IT integrations and separations from deal close to employee and business day 1 events in line with the approved M&A strategy.
• Worked with other corporate M&A functions and IT project teams to ensure the integration is managed to achieve the required integration strategy, synergies, and revenue projections within the acquiring company.
• Responsible for HPIT Outsourcing Program to fulfil up to 400 internal IT projects per annum for services customer account delivery. Key Achievements:
• Delivered the integration of three Software and one Storage business acquisitions on budget and within the approved timeframe (typical integration budget >$1-10m).
• Managed one divestiture and three HP print supplies market strategic outsource projects to deliver the transition of IT services (TSAs & supply chain impacts) between sign and close on time and budget.
• Responsible for multiple strategic programs / project work streams simultaneously.

London, Canary Wharf And Reading

• Responsible for the project management of the post-sale agreement of the Citigroup – Diners Club Cards Acquiring business (CCA) with Elavon Financial Services Limited.
• Responsibilities included provision of migration support from within Citigroup to enable the ‘acquiring business’ to achieve full TSA service independence from Citigroup by 31/12/07.Key Achievements:
• The project closed with a 15% increase in reserves from the effective management of TSA services and billing for the provision of additional support services to assist with the project, and the control of the services.
• Co-ordinated intercompany relationship and use of Citigroup’s accounting and settlement systems, technical infrastructure and premises, for 2 years following the divestiture.
• Ensured information security and risks were managed during the separation and TSA period. Citigroup / CitiFinancial, Reading, Acquisitions Project Manager; 2005- 2006
• Responsible for the project management of secured / unsecured loan and mortgage portfolio acquisitions and divestitures to support the UK CitiFinancial business strategy.

EMEA -UK, Ire, France, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Slovakia, Romania, Poland

• Responsible for the preparation, testing and compliance of all business continuity planning (BCP) operations for all CitiFinancial offices within the EMEA region.
• Achievements include the development of a regional BCP methodology, the establishment of a business continuity team across European operations, successful disaster recovery strategy development, implementation.

Reading, United Kingdom

Responsible for providing operations support and business development planning for new UK and ROI branch operations. My ongoing responsibilities included the management of corporate services projects to increase the cost effectiveness of branch operations. My responsibilities included working with branch operations management and property surveyors to.

UK

Responsibilities included logistics projects analysis and co-ordination to increase the efficiency of the logistics operations for Sony Consumer Division in the UK. Key achievements included the design and build of a logistics costs budgeting and accounting model which compared budgeted storage and distribution costs by product division against actuals on.

Diploma In Digital Leadership, Digital Strategy, Distinction

Activities and Societies: Awarded "Most Inspiring" award for Feb 2016 Cohort on graduation September 2016.Module 1 - The Digital.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Business Administration And Management, General

Hnd, Business Administration, Management And Operations

A Levels

Activities and Societies: Rugby, Athletics, Squash, Tennis

Education record

Activities and Societies: Rugby, Boy Scouts