• Providing solutions to financial service providers looking to enter the European ETF market place. Services include business strategy, product, distribution and operating model design as well as in house versus outsourcing options. • Creating strategic partnerships investigating new and alternative product opportunities.• Financial services consultancy to a wide range of clients including Wealth Managers, Index Vendors, Active, Quantitative and Index Asset Managers, Exchanges, FinTech and Technology firms.

A Director of the £250bn index funds business, Head of Strategy Implementation and Head of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)• Delivering on strategic objectives in terms of increasing AUM, costs and revenue targets.• Inspiring, motivating and leading a broad team of staff, cross department project teams and suppliers to provide world class service to clients and end investors.• Ownership and delivery of the investment performance, risk, operational and financial performance.• Continually improving individual and team performances• Timely, accurate and insightful financial and operational reporting• Strategic decision making and effective implementationMajor achievements• Building and rolling out a multi asset transition management business unit• Developing and launching multiple new products and distribution channels including entering the European ETF market place and Tax Transparent Fund launches.• Operating model refresh including core portfolio management rebuild and strategic enterprise data program.• Strategic partnership delivery with a number of key clients including local government pension schemes, investment consultants and M&A activities.• Delivering superior investment returns to a wide range of clients including Institutional (Pension Fund, SWF and Charity) to Retail (DtoC)• Providing consistent investment performance via different product wrappers included Insurance Life Company, Unit Trusts, ICAV, SICAV, ACS, Segregated and ETFs.• Managing the full range of assets including: Equities, Bonds, Multi Asset Asset Allocation, Derivatives, LDI & Commodities

• Setting sales strategy and managing teams covering equity derivative products to global institutional clients. • Primary focus on clients based in the UK, US, and Northern Europe. • Global Head of Delta One Sales. • Managing C Suite relationships with selected strategic clients.

• Managed a wide range of funds, developed portfolio management teams and provided client investment solutions in a fast-growing asset manager. • Launched and ran the first iShares funds in Europe.• Globalised the core portfolio management and trading technologies.• Pioneered the use of derivatives in portfolio management.• Hired and developed award winning teams of portfolio mangers, sales and operations.• Secondment to San Francisco

Designed and launched a number of derivative, capital protected portfolios and index funds.

Launched and ran the Safeguard product range of capital protected funds.Provided tactical asset allocation via derivative overlays for main Life and Pension portfolios