Mark Bowden Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

Portsmouth, Hampshire, Gb

CFO and Statutory Board member for the UK’s largest and most successful marketplace for matching home owners with trade professionals. Private Equity owned within Brookfield’s $750bn Global Asset Management portfolio.Responsible for financial control, internal audit, commercial finance, pricing, FP&A, procurement, general counsel, data protection / GDPR, BI, data & analytics, data science.

Portsmouth, Hampshire, Gb

CFO, ‘Approved Person’ and statutory Board Director for the UK’s largest ‘virtual’ operator (MVNO) with over 5m customers and revenue of £1bn - the 5th largest UK mobile operator overall.A joint venture between Telefónica UK and Tesco Group, Tesco Mobile is a multi award winning brand who have been a Which? recommended provider for an unprecedented 10 consecutive years running.Responsible for commercial finance, financial control, data warehousing, business intelligence, data science, procurement, tax, treasury, working capital & cash management, securitisation financing, billing, revenue assurance and credit risk.

Reading, England, Gb

CFO for the P&L performance of Telefonica's UK operations, made up of its Consumer, Business, Wholesale, Digital, New Business, Internet Of Things and Smart Metering Business units. Circa £6bn Revenue, £1.5bn EBITDA

Uxbridge, Greater London, Gb

CFO for Telefonica UK's highly successful, £500m revenue, multi-award winning, wholly owned Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO). Run as an autonomous subsidiary, therefore end to end accountability for Financial Control, Statutory Accounts, Governance, Regulatory, Commercial Finance, Pricing, General Counsel, Procurement, Compliance (including FCA) and Business Intelligence.Winner of the Which? Best Telecoms Provider 2014Winner of the Which? Best Telecoms Provider 2015Winner of uSwitch Mobile Network of the year 2016"Big four networks outclassed as giffgaff is crowned 2016 mobile Network of the Year at the uSwitch Mobile Awards". See below

Madrid, Es

Wayra are Telefonica's start up incubator. I have been a board advisor and mentor to several highly successful start ups who have gone on to raise substantial funding. I have also been part of the judging panel who decide which start ups Telefonica sponsor.

Reading, England, Gb

FD to O2’s Sales and Service Director (Board position) leading a 25 strong teamMaximising return on £1bn of O2’s consumer investment costs and £320m opexLead for all major negotiations within the Sales and Service Directorate Driving digital transformation to deliver long-term business value

Reading, England, Gb

FD to the General Manager of Consumer, leading a team of 25. Responsible for all pricing, P&L, value management and proposition decisions with accountability for the £3.5bn Consumer P&L.

London, Gb

Define and execute the commercial strategy for a Large Enterprise sales directorate of over 300 sales staff. Revenues of £0.75bn, £100m investment budget.Led a 30 strong team of senior commercial managers, commercial analysts and senior contracts negotiators across products and services including Mobile, Fixed, Unified Communications, Solution Sales Business Service and ‘Better Business’Responsibility for acquiring, retaining, developing and transforming Vodafone UK's Corporate, Public Sector and Large SME customers

London, Gb

Adviser to the CEO and CFO, responsible for influencing and optimising the financial performance of Vodafone’s India, China and EMAP ventures. Responsibilities included FP&A, 5yr planning, M&A, commercial / financial assessment of major investments & sales and marketing initiatives, Capex planning.

London, Gb

Heading a department of 12, responsible for reporting £5bn of UK Revenue. Selected to design and lead a transformation programme to turn around a significantly underperforming area of the business including: people, structure, systems, processes, compliance and controls. Within a 12 month timescale, successfully delivered a challenging change management roadmap in UK Finance creating a respected, high performing, high capability team.

London, Gb

A heavily commercial role heading up the finance function that developed and acquired Vodafone's Wholesale partners including BT, Carphone Warehouse, Lebara, Asda and Amazon. Lead finance exec for all of Vodafone's business development opportunities, including the Tiscali bid. The role also included responsibility for £1bn of Interconnect cost management and planning.

Reading, Berkshire , Gb

Member of the senior management team with financial responsibility for acquisition / retention / quadplay strategy, Contract and Prepay tariffs, 3G Services, Mobile TV and On-Line strategy. Responsible for service revenue business planning (£700m). One of only 6 people (of ~1,600) in the company to be given the highest possible grading.

Executive Education

Acma, Management Accountancy

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2.1, Investment And Finance

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