Partner, Financial Services And Banking
CurrentOwn and run a revenue/margin number for the firm for its Wall Street clients. Define territory planning, sales strategy, client acquisition, and execute it to consistently grow sales footprint. Manage performance of delivery teams to commitment made and continually improve client trust + enable business growth for firm's delivery practices. Successfully broke into and grew sales for clients: Morgan Stanley, JPMC, Citi, Deutsche Bank, TD Ameritrade and BBH.For e.g. built a platinum client ($76b diversified financial services firm), ground up within 2 years, revenue growth three folds the first year and 30% the next year. - Built firm’s reputation and professional network across client business units and IBM NY sales team. - Strategized and targeted 3+ key business needs that created multi-million/multi-year opportunity pipeline. - Fashioned, sold and led delivery that optimized BPM solution for its core branch operations.Led business development and delivery of $4MM target revenue comprising of software solutions across breadth of technology such as BPM, Portal, Security and Monitoring for Wall Street clients. - Uncovered client needs, built proposal and led delivery of IBM monitoring solution that improved trading platform availability and end-user perception. - Improved private-bank end-user experience as transitioned the team to IBM stack from BEA portal, rolling out prioritized functionality at business schedule while reducing client IT cost.At 3 different instances turned around failing engagements into successful delivery that led to improved client trust and being awarded subsequent projects. (3 times the initial size)Corporate initiatives: - Quantified lost business and delivered a multi-year roadmap to the CEO that redefined organization structure, client account lifecycle and people development. - Designed and rolled out detailed project metrics and governance that enabled crisp control on client initiatives.