Fanzine is an innovative Sports Tech/Media company developing club-specific and multi-sport Apps and Websites for the biggest teams, whilst building engaged fan communities globally.Our native iOS/Android apps and websites are both functionally and content rich, with apps already downloaded in 197 countries. So far, our real-time scalable sports platform supports 75+Football clubs, as well as Cricket, NBA, NFL and MLB, as we now venture into other global sports. We have very quickly become the ‘voice of the fans’, with 7m+ fans across Social, Web and App, with this audience consistently growing organically by 30k+/week, generating near 500m impressions.Knowing that sports fans enjoy multi-sports, our mission is clear… To make Fanzine the #1 Fans’ Platform for fans globally, with world-class apps & websites, seamlessly connecting social audiences for the Top 15 biggest sports.

Management of IT & Operations departments for this UK Equities broker.- Departmental management of IT & Operations, serving the corporate broking & advisory as well as research, sales & trading businesses of this progressive UK Equities broker.- Driving new initiatives such as iOS mobile app development for both front-office staff, as well as corporate customer base. - Extensive vendor management of such key systems as Fidessa and RIMS, as well as close cost management and budgetary ownership. Business/Geography – IT & Operations: London & NY.Challenges/Mitigation – Refocusing the IT department to become more ‘customer facing’ in meeting the needs of the business.

Development of Hadoop “big data” platform for Market Risk business.- Consolidation of in-house Equities and FICC Risk Management systems into a newly developed Hadoop/Actian “big data platform”.- Cross-Asset liaison with Risk Managers, scoping this Fed regulatory delivery, reporting to senior stakeholders and chairing SteerCo. - Driving Agile project through iterative sprints, managing a multi-disciplined team of project managers, business analysts, developers and testers.Business/Geography – Market Risk: London, NY, Singapore & HK.Challenges/Mitigation – Evolving ‘big data’ architecture for real-time transactional risk platform, whilst combining Oracle/Java team with Scala/Hadoop developers.

Leadership of seven regulatory Market Risk projects.- Programme/Project management of Market Risk projects, encompassing Model Risk, Risk Simulation and VaR disciplines.- Operating within intense deadlines managing regulatory requirements for BaFin, The Fed & MAS, on both reactive and pro-active risk management initiatives. - Overall management of federated project team, consisting of Quants, IT, Project Management team and external Consultants, reporting to senior stakeholders.Business/Geography – Market Risk: London, NY & Berlin.Challenges/Mitigation – Project prioritization for multiple regulators with aggressive timelines, detailed planning and huge project drive necessary. Overcoming geographically split teams with close communication and strong cooperation.

Management of Derivative content for Dodd Frank/EMIR reporting.- Regulatory and Derivative change, on-boarding company-wide trade and valuation population into Java/Oracle Coherence data warehouse, facilitating Dodd Frank & EMIR regulatory reporting. - Data modelling of ~1,500 product types across Credit, Equities, Fixed Income & FX.- Stakeholder management across senior management, IT/architecture and consumers, managing working groups & steering committee.Business/Geography – Finance, Risk & Operations: London, NY & HK.Challenges/Mitigation – Provide a single ‘consistent view’ to regulators/customers of this fractured, disparate business.

Developed and grew a front-office risk/portfolio management vendor for 6 years.- Straddled product specification & development, alongside marketing & sales to buy-side and sell-side customer base globally.- Relationship management of C-Level trading and fund management customer base, around their trading strategies and asset class pricing and risk management.- Grew revenues by 400% over 6 years, opening offices and building teams in London, New York and Hong Kong. This growth was achieved by working with such prop desks and fund managers as Augustus, BlueBay, Citi, Merrill Lynch, Mitsubishi, Mizuho, MacQuarie, RBS & Soc Gen. - Responsible for all aspect of business management, customer relationship management, as well as 3rd party vendor partnerships, with OMS/EMS systems, accounting systems and Prime Brokers.Business/Geography – Compliance/Regulatory, Development, Finance, HR, Legal & Sales: Management of 30 staff in NY, London, Oxford & HK, with global Hedge Fund & Investment Bank customer base spread across US, EMEA & Asia Pac.Challenges/ Mitigation – Organically funded product development firm, competing against large vendors globally, propelled by excellent customer service reputation.

Managed front office development team and $25m data warehouse migration.- Management of 15 London & NY based developers building and delivering products for the US, European & Asian Research producing businesses.- Product development was dual-focused for both the bank’s Research Analysts as well as for Hedge Funds using the Credit Suisse HOLT investment framework. - Orchestrated the $25m transformation programme to consolidate & migrate the London based systems from the Canary Wharf campus to Slough; seeing 1,200 software applications transformed/migrated across 4,400 servers.Business/Geography – Equity/FICC Research & Hedge Funds: London, NY & HK.Challenges/Mitigation – Huge stakeholder challenge with the company-wide data centre migration, with enormous focus on communication, fairness and integrity.

Programme development director of Equity and Fixed Income businesses.- Unified Research functions in London, HK, Tokyo & Johannesburg, physically relocating IT teams onto the trading floors to improve visibility & communication.- Managed a global project team of 25, made up of project managers, developers, testers & support analysts, in the development of Equity & Fixed Income Research systems globally, designing productivity tools and automated research distribution applications.- Undertook a major planning and design exercise to outline 3 year roadmap, after personally visiting each of the 19 offices globally to meet and gather requirements from the trading, sales & research staff.Business/Geography – Equity/FICC Research & Sales: London, Johannesburg, HK & Tokyo.Challenges/Mitigation – Faced both technology and people challenges, such as poor (retail bank) WAN, coupled with aligning distributed Global development team to build/support the new Global products.

Development programme around Sales & Research business functions.- Ensured the technology roadmap was aligned as the business grew from UK to European to Global businesses over my 8 years tenure in this role.- 3-way replicated Global Research/Sales system with London, Chicago & HK hubs, with significant application developments including Word/Excel analyst toolkits, web based report & fundamental data, CTI-enabled CRM and productivity tools.- Close relationship management across front-office traders, sales & research analysts in US, Europe & Asia Pac, with a strong emphasis upon iterative prototyping.Business/Geography – Sales & Research IT/Business: London, Chicago & HK.Challenges/Mitigation – Maintaining close alignment of technology strategy against a geographically expanding business… Met with a combination of continual product iteration against understanding of local vs. global differing requirements.