Highsight is a cutting-edge B2B people analytics platform designed to revolutionize how investors evaluate talent during the pre-investment phase and monitor the portfolio workforce post-investment. It also empowers portfolio company leadership teams with strategic people planning tools to maximize returns and drive superior performance.Highsight’s founders bring long experience from the world of talent, consulting, benchmarking, analytics, and technology.

I work in a business advisory and coaching/mentoring capacity with a portfolio of companies including:* Moore East Midlands Chartered Accountants and Business Advisors: Director coaching.* Associate at Andy Coughlin Consulting: helping organisations improve their performance under pressure. * Wealth Dynamics Ltd: Fintech in Deloitte Technology FastTrack 50 2017, Leadership Coaching.* JWG IT Ltd: RegTech company. Leadership Coaching and Sales Strategy advisory.* The eaga Trust: Business mentor for the Reboot program.* The Forton Group: Sales strategy, execution and new service development.* Plan UK: Leadership Coaching.* CIO Connect: Sales strategy advisory* Finalta Ltd: subsidiary of McKinsey. Creating, validating new offering within Capital Markets.* Expand Research: subsidiary of Boston Consulting Group. Leadership Coaching.* Ineo Life: strategic input into new line of service/business including design.I also have a strong belief in 'giving back' and so provide pro-bono coaching, primarily for young professionals (school leavers/graduates) seeking clarity as to their 'career'.

Erevena build and advise leadership teams for businesses creating leading edge technology, support those disrupting established markets through technology, and Corporations transforming their business models in response to innovation and disruption. I led the initiative to bring fresh technology talent to address the challenges being faced by new market and business practices in the capital markets, as well as working with FinTech companies to help build their management teams across a number of CXO roles.This invaluable experience at Erevena led me to focus on advisory, coaching and mentoring.

A wonderful "Gap Year", to be recommended to anybody at any point in life! Took stock, 'rebooted', skied, read, got bored, drove Mrs D mad with innovative transformation and in-sourcing of domestic processes (that had all been outsourced).

Subsidiary of Boston Consulting Group.Expand had 5 partners, as such all initiatives and activities were within that construct.I led the launch of syndicated programs such as the CIO Forum in London, New York, Toronto and HK/Singapore, Wealth CIO Forum in London and New York, CTO Forum in New York, plus a number of other Forums covering Infrastructure, Human Capital Strategies, Data Centre Strategy.I was also responsible for the launch and running of a number syndicated annual benchmark programs covering human capital, IT application software and IT hardware spend analysis in the Capital Markets.I chaired circa 30 Forums and Round Tables per year, attended by MD and Director level syndicate members from Capital Market banks. I was also 'Head of Sales' post BCG acquisition.

My role covered the UK and Northern Europe, building relationships with service organisations such as Accenture, PWC, IBM Global Services, CapGemini, to ensure the Manugistics solution was part of their go-to-market initiatives.

My role covered the UK and Northern Europe building relationships with service organisations such as Accenture, PWC, IBM Global Services, CapGemini, to ensure the Critical Path solution set was part of their go-to-market initiatives and capability set.

In my 2 years I covered the Utilities and then Financial Markets verticals.

I was responsible for managing our partner re-sellers in Argentina, Chile, Brasil (Andersen Consulting as was) and Uruguay.The client base covered all verticals with national and multinational clients - Antartica, J&J, Coca-Cola, BAT, Banco O'Higgins, Quilmes...This involved extensive travel, ensuring our partners were focused on Comshare opportunities, speaking at events and seminars - often in Portuguese/Spanish - ensuring full training on new products and managing the HQ - partner relationship.

Secondment from Comshare to Andersen Consulting, re-seller partner in Brazil, running a team of 5 sales, liaising with Andersen Partners to ensure the Comshare solution was at the forefront of their minds, having to stand up for a licence fee targeted unit in a consultancy based business.

Covered a number of vertical markets - Commercial, Financial Markets, Utilities.

Passed IBM Sales School with a Distinction.IBM Commercial Salesman of the Month.Based in East Anglia with clients such as Sellotape and Adnams.

IBM - and I - rapidly realised that I was not cut out for AS/400 programming, however I did pass the Systems Engineer School - before moving into Sales asap.

Jungle Guide (Manaus, Brasil), MP Research Assistant (Parliament, Westminster), Boarding Prep School Assistant Teacher (St Faith's Cambridge), Christmas Postie (4 years running, Bromley), McDonalds (fries fryer cleaner/burger assembler, Eltham), mailroom boy Legal Firm (City)....