Mark Bowden

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Chief Executive Officer @ Quickline Communications Limited
London, England, United Kingdom
Mark Bowden's Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
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About Mark Bowden

Articulate and polished business leader and CFO. Strategic, commercial thinker with a proven ability in driving long-term business value for the UK’s leading telecoms and media brands. Talent for successfully managing and influencing stakeholder agendas and leadership of high-performing teams. Attracted to insight-led, customer-driven environments and those that positively embrace digital transformation, artificial intelligence, robotics and cognitive technology.Key strengths includeBuilding talented teams / Start-up business mentoring (WAYRA incubator)Driving digital transformation / Business, Enterprise, Consumer & Wholesale Finance Major and intricate contract negotiation / Legal / contract preparation and negotiationTrusted adviser to Board members / Inspiring and developing large teams

Mark Bowden's Current Company Details
Quickline Communications Limited

Quickline Communications Limited

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Chief Executive Officer
London, England, United Kingdom
Website:
quickline.co.uk
Employees:
315
Mark Bowden Work Experience Details
  • Quickline Communications Limited
    Chief Executive Officer
    Quickline Communications Limited
    London, England, United Kingdom
  • Checkatrade.Com
    Chief Financial Officer
    Checkatrade.Com Jun 2021 - Present
    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.
  • Checkatrade.Com
    Acting Chief Executive Officer
    Checkatrade.Com Jun 2023 - Sep 2023
    Portsmouth, Hampshire, Gb
  • Tesco Mobile
    Chief Financial Officer
    Tesco Mobile May 2019 - Jun 2021
    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.
  • O2 (Telefónica Uk)
    Commercial Finance Director
    O2 (Telefónica Uk) Aug 2017 - May 2019
    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
  • Giffgaff
    Chief Financial Officer
    Giffgaff Sep 2015 - Aug 2017
    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
  • Wayra
    Advisory Board Member
    Wayra Nov 2012 - Nov 2015
    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.
  • O2 (Telefónica Uk)
    Head Of Finance - Sales
    O2 (Telefónica Uk) Apr 2014 - Sep 2015
    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
  • O2 (Telefónica Uk)
    Head Of Finance - Marketing
    O2 (Telefónica Uk) Nov 2012 - Apr 2014
    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.
  • Vodafone
    Head Of Commercial - Enterprise
    Vodafone Aug 2010 - Oct 2012
    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
  • Vodafone
    Group Finance Head - India And China
    Vodafone Mar 2010 - Aug 2010
    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.
  • Vodafone
    Head Of Uk Revenue Accounting
    Vodafone Oct 2008 - Mar 2010
    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.
  • Vodafone
    Head Of Finance - Strategy, Wholesale And Business Development
    Vodafone Jun 2007 - Oct 2008
    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.
  • Virgin Media
    Commercial Finance Controller
    Virgin Media Jan 2006 - Jun 2007
    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.
  • Virgin Mobile
    Commercial Finance Manager - Sales And Acquisition
    Virgin Mobile Nov 2003 - Jan 2006
  • Virgin Mobile
    Commercial Finance Manager - Business Cases
    Virgin Mobile Oct 2001 - Nov 2003
  • Virgin Mobile
    Business Case Consultant
    Virgin Mobile Apr 2001 - Oct 2001
  • Storm Telecommunications
    Senior Manager - Commercial Operations
    Storm Telecommunications Aug 2000 - Apr 2001
  • Storm Telecommunications
    Manager - Commercial Operations
    Storm Telecommunications Nov 1999 - Aug 2000
  • Mciworldcom
    Commercial Analyst
    Mciworldcom Jul 1998 - Nov 1999

Mark Bowden Skills

Business Strategy Change Management Mobile Devices Team Leadership Managerial Finance Solution Selling Mergers And Acquisitions Financial Planning Sales Process Business Case Business Transformation Commercial Management Portfolio Management Financial Management Commercial Finance Wholesale Mobile Communications Pricing Strategy Unified Communications Contract Negotiation Mobile Sales Negotiation Financial Accounting Deal Structuring Deal Execution Change Leadership Strategic Leadership Transformation Upselling Cross Selling Cross Functional Team Leadership Fixed Mobile Convergence Board Presentations Troubleshooting Large Account Sales Account Acquisition Thought Leadership Sales Support Salesforce.com Sales Operations Legal Compliance Legal Support Legal Affairs Pricing Negotiation Pricing M2m

Mark Bowden Education Details

  • Iese Business School
    Iese Business School
    Executive Education
  • Acma
    Acma
    Management Accountancy
  • Prince 2
    Prince 2
  • University Of Reading
    University Of Reading
    Investment And Finance
  • Shrewsbury School
    Shrewsbury School

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Mark Bowden attended Iese Business School, Acma, Prince 2, University Of Reading, Shrewsbury School.

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Mark Bowden's colleagues are Nathan Robinson, Helen Milner, Lewis O’connor, Adam Hemingway, Clare Andrews, Dave Joyce, Adon Baxter.

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