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London, England, Gb

London, England, Gb

Leading the end to end experience (product, tech, clinical, CS & physical ops)

My consulting vehicle, principally undertaking product, strategy and go-to-market engagements for digital startups & scale-ups, including:* Hanubu; an automotive venture builder. Supporting on produc & tech strategy, and M&A due diligence.* RL Auto: a SaaS IoT business in the automotive sector. Supporting on operating model design, go-to-market and sales capabilities.* HyperJar: a multi-award winning app based FinTech. Helping to accelerate how it delivers amazing budgeting and wallet capabilities to its users and fuelling its growth from 500k to millions. * Under NDA; market entry support for a food delivery business exploring the parcel market.

Morley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, Gb

Building the product function at Evri, and trying to create great customer experiences as we deliver up to 3 million parcels per day, through our marketplace of courier, delivery and parcelshop partners, on behalf of the UKs biggest ecommerce players.

Brentford, Middlesex, Gb

Joined as part of GSK's digital transformation for its new consumer goods business. Responsible for all global customer facing technology products, defining the 3 year roadmap and product strategy for all B2B eCommerce applications and all sales/go-to-market applications (CRM, SFA, AI for next best action, Retail Execution, net revenue management). Leading 50 FTEs in several countries plus external partners on delivering value for 4,000 sales staff globally, and thousands of wholesaler, retailer and pharmacy partners. Helping to build a product mindset organisation and a shift to customer-centric, agile product management.

London, England, Gb

Co-founded an automotive parts marketplace (originally named Glovebox). Personally forged our partnerships with brands like Toyota and retailers like Inchcape. Designed and built the marketplace technology (AWS + LAMP + MongoDB + Magento), created a product management and product development capability and led the digital marketing (SEO, social media advertising, Adwords). Built a business with a great team, technology & customer base, and after two very successful funding rounds, was able to exit from the business.

Richmond Surrey, Surrey, Gb

Brought into the owner-managed ecommerce SaaS platform and marketplace consulting business to help with the scale-up. A team of 150+ in 6 countries, the We Are Pentagon group is the leading ecommerce services agency managing £100m+ of marketplace GMV for retailers and brands internationally. Deep expertise covering both traditional marketplaces such as eBay & Amazon and the emerging ones including Alibaba, Lazada, Mercado Libre, Flipkart, Ozon et al across China, India and Russia. Pentagon is the chosen partner for more than 2,000 retailers and brands, as diverse as Next, Sports Direct, BMW, Dyson and Reckitt Benckiser. Re-architected the operating model, improved the economics, clarified the proposition and added process, data & tech.

London, Gb

Transform's the management consultancy division of the Engine Group, and I led the retail practice, working with clients such as Argos, Tesco, eBay, Debenhams, Maplins, Halfords, New Look and more. The focus was digital transformation, from digital strategy through to experience design and then to actual program management & project delivery, always with a customer-centric approach. For these retailers I ran projects spanning omnichannel strategy, proposition development, customer experience design (including roadmapping, wireframing & UX), fulfilment proposition development & implementation, content strategy and PIM/DAM requirements definition, change management, Agile coaching and information architecture (including search).

San Jose, Ca, Us

2012-13: Head of UK Merchant Acquisition, leading a team of 12 with a $200m+ annual GMV target from UK enterprise clients such as Argos, Tesco, Superdry, The Hut Group2011: Head of Sales, Europe responsible for the Automotive Parts & Accessories category, undertaking strategic partnerships with brands such as BMW, Toyota, Ford2009-10: Head of Client Services, Europe, developing the technology platform for our enterprise partnerships and leading our retail client integration and consulting teams2007-08: International principal product manager for eBay advertising and eBay Motors

Toronto, On, Ca

Designing and launching an online offering for medium sized business transacting internationally to help them manage operational risks. Sort of a combination Wikipedia+Yahoo Answers+LinkedIn+Reuters Alerts, see http://insight.reuters.com

Tunbridge Wells, Kent, Gb

The NLA is owned by the UK's 8 major national newspapers and sells licences to press cuttings agencies for re-use of copyright material. I led product development of the digital solution, including selecting, contracting and managing outsourced product operations in Manila and designing the technology solution and user experience. Responsible also for the market & business case development, product/project management & product marketing.

Founded a digital marketplace, AskMyNetwork.com, as an online 'yellow pages' but with detailed recommendations about the included providers, integrating a social network alongside trusted reviews & ratings. Responsible for product development and digital marketing.

Jacksonville, Fl, Us

OneSource (now D&B) created high value business information products sold to the world's largest B2B firms. I was responsible for the product management and product marketing of the EMEA offerings.

London, Gb

Led a small team on the ideation, research, development and analysis of the performance of investment and professional services firms. Responsible for the telemarketing of these analytics products. Created a digital version of Euromoney's key magazines.

IT architect and developer (Pascal, Visual Basic, SQL) working on projects for investment banks, publishers and other corporates

New York, Ny, Us

Investment analyst on international index funds in the Robert Fleming team, creating trading algorithms and using AI for derivatives arbitrage