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United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

We're building the world's leading multi-sided marketplace and all-in-one fundraising infrastructure for the venture ecosystem. Using verified data and merit-based connections, we seamlessly link ambitious private companies with discerning investment firms and investors.• Lead the Product function, owning portfolio vision and strategy, and managing the growth and development of the Product team• Established an outcome-focused, product-led culture of continuous discovery and delivery

London, England, United Kingdom

Combining tailored expertise, local relationships and modern technology, Allica Bank exists to empower UK SMEs to succeed. • Led creation of Allica’s Business Current Account, owning vision, strategy and delivery.• Built the founding cross-functional team and managed relationships and integrations with key strategic partners including ClearBank and Visa.

London, Greater London, United Kingdom

Equals Money (formerly FairFX) is an international payments and digital banking services provider to both retail and business customers.• Joined as Product Lead for Banking, owning product strategy and delivery of our retail and business banking product suite across web, mobile and platform services.• Promoted to Group Head of Product, to build and develop a world class product team and function across all business verticals.• Hands-on Product Lead for overhaul and reinvention of Spend Management platform for SMEs, from inception to MVP launch.• Assembled and led team to deliver Banking Competition Remedies (BCR) Pool C application.

London, United Kingdom

BCG DV is the world’s leading corporate investment and incubation firm. Founded in 2014, with centres in Manhattan Beach, Berlin, London, Sydney, San Francisco, New York, Silicon Valley, Seattle and Mexico City, DV is home to a diverse range of entrepreneurs, operators and investors. We invent, build and invest in startups with the world’s most influential companies.• Led Product on two major venture development projects with VW and Rio Tinto.• Served as initial venture CPO for heycar UK; led product pitch, with the venture team securing a multi-year multi-million GBP investment.• Co-led Product function on an ‘Innovation Sprint’ to develop 5 new MVP concepts and investment cases for Rio Tinto. Successfully pitched to Rio’s Digital Board, securing investments for 4 out of 5 new ventures.

London, United Kingdom

REVL was the 'Spotify of events' - the world's first personalised event recommendation service, with the most comprehensive event listing database in the UK, tens of thousands of venues profiled, and thousands of brand-name partners - covering pubs, clubs, museums, galleries, sports teams, musicians, comedians, festivals, walks, talks, family events and much more.• Led Product and Design functions (across mobile, web, platform and internal tools) and part of the senior management team, reporting to the CEO.• Led redesign of onboarding experience: reduced ‘time to first event’ for new users by 70%, increased sign up conversion >20% & average session duration >30%. Drove overall increase in 30-day retention from 11 to 23%.• Led and coached the Product and Design team, and led hiring across Product, Design & Engineering.

London, United Kingdom

Habito is using technology to bring the mortgage application process into the 21st century, so that home buyers can, for the first time, be sure they’re getting the best possible deal, all online, in record time. No jargon, no fees and no misinformation.• Product Lead and first Product hire, reporting to CEO, owning product vision, strategy, roadmap and backlog, and managing our Product and Design team.• Led delivery of customer onboarding and data collection experience using the UK’s first FCA-authorised mortgage advice chatbot, garnering a prestigious ‘Best B2C Startup in Europe’ award in 2016.• Led various key initiatives including: Mortgage sourcing & recommendation engine; Customer referral programme; Blog; Integrations with various 3rd parties including Insurance, Conveyancing, ID&V and online Estate Agents.• Participated in successful Series A fundraising in December 2016.

London, United Kingdom

One of the most recognised brands in the UK, Which? is an independent, privately-funded non-profit that campaigns for consumer rights. Its flagship commercial offering is the Reviews & Advice digital product suite, which I managed across platform services, web and mobile apps.• Product Lead for Which? Reviews and Advice, and the Which? digital magazine (Platform, Web and Native Mobile App teams).• Built and led teams to redesign and replace our 'Which? Reviews' iOS and Android apps, increasing DAU 400% within 3 months of launch.• Presented on product strategy and progress at quarterly company divisional meetings.

London, United Kingdom

Blinkbox Music was a multi-platform music streaming service, formerly part of Tesco’s digital media group (along with Movies and Books), with 2.2 million registered users and 200k active weekly users.• Product Lead for Web; Cross-platform Product and Project Lead for Subscription services.• Also (at prior stages): Product Manager/Owner for Mobile (iOS and Android), Smart TV, CMS and User Account Management tools.• Project Lead for the integration and pre-install of our music app on the Tesco Hudl 1 & 2 tablets (>500k devices).

London, United Kingdom

MusicQubed was a white label subscription-based music app developer that partnered with networks and brands, like Samsung, O2, Vodafone and MTV to deliver targeted music content to their audiences. MQ's apps were downloaded over 3 million times.• Product Lead (and first Product hire for the company), working with the Exec Team to drive product strategy, roadmap and delivery of our internationally licensed mobile music service across all mobile platforms (iOS, Android and BlackBerry). • Built and managed Product and Design teams. • Led design and delivery of our whitelabel app generation and management platform.• Led design and delivery of B2B offerings, and managed key account relationships, with global partners including Samsung, O2, Vodafone, Ministry of Sound and MTV.• Product Owner for agile dev team based in Kiev, Ukraine (including monthly travel to Kiev office).

London, United Kingdom

• Product Lead for two multi-platform music services from inception through to launch: one built and launched in partnership with HP, and the other our own B2C offering, rara.com.• Owned strategy, roadmaps and backlogs for PC and Web products, including day-to-day agile product owner responsibilities.• Worked closely with senior stakeholders and major global partners including HP, Toshiba, Sky, Sony, Vodafone, Three Mobile and BlackBerry.

London, United Kingdom

• Reporting directly to the CTO, I was Project Lead (Delivery and Rollout Manager) for 3 international multi-platform music streaming solutions (built in partnership with Sony Ericsson, Sony Vaio and HP), working closely with an Accenture global rollout management team.• General management, co-ordination and resourcing responsibilities for the Engineering Department.• Ongoing senior stakeholder management (both internal and with key partners), and key point of contact for Engineering with the rest of the business.• Agile product owner for core CMS and user account management tools, working with cross-functional teams to scope, prioritise and implement product backlog items.• Line managed the PC Client (.NET) Dev Team (5 Engineers) and QA Team of 3.

Cfa Level 1

Registered Persons Examinations For The Sa Futures, Equity And Bond Markets

Bachelor Of Commerce

Higher Grade Matric (School Leaving Certificate)