Mark Ashworth

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COO and CFO @ Expana
United Kingdom
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About Mark Ashworth

C-suite leader with extensive experience, skills and success in Commercial, Operations, Transformation, Integration, M&A, Leadership, General Management, People, Operations and Finance. Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Operating Officer (COO), Chief Financial Officer (CFO)I was part of the C-suite team that delivered an outstanding result for Grapeshot shareholders with a high 9-figure exit to Oracle in 2018. Post-acquisition, I was asked to remain became Vice President and General Manager (Divisional Managing Director) for Oracle Data Cloud’s (ODC) International organisation where my leadership spanned all international markets outside of North America. I drove significant growth across four continents from a new aligned business proposition and opened new markets for Oracle Data Cloud in Japan, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, India and Korea, realising my ambition of making the International business a significant component of the whole. I have built my career around high-growth organisations, built on a substantial based of professional advice with “Big 4” Corporate Finance and then FTSE-listed groups. I am passionate about working in organisations going through their fastest growth periods. I love the challenge of unlocking new markets and have operated extensively across five continents opening new ventures. My leadership special sauce is building teams of experts who collaborate for success, both internally and externally and who contribute to winning cultures. Success to me means simplifying the complex and cutting the extraneous, allowing for top talent to flourish and encouraging a dynamic, enjoyable work environment for all. I have an M.A in Mathematics from Cambridge University and am a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Mark Ashworth's Current Company Details
Expana

Expana

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COO and CFO
United Kingdom
Employees:
304
Mark Ashworth Work Experience Details
  • Expana
    Coo And Cfo
    Expana
    United Kingdom
  • Expana
    Coo / Cfo
    Expana Feb 2023 - Present
    Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, Gb
    Expana is a high-growth, high profit organisation providing data into the food industry. Expana's investors are Five Arrows Principal Investments, part of the Rothschild group, and Synova.
  • Makude Investment Partners Llp
    Founding Partner
    Makude Investment Partners Llp Apr 2020 - Present
    Makude manages a small number of investments in private companies. Makude is unregulated, investing only the funds of its three founding partners.
  • Virti
    Chief Operating Officer
    Virti Mar 2021 - Sep 2022
    New York, Us
    Virti provides a software platform to allow corporate and public bodies to quickly develop bespoke, interactive training solutions for better learning outcomes. Virti's customers include organisations such as diverse as Amazon, HTC and Cedars-Sinai UniversityI was hired by the investor to clean-up all operational and financial aspects of the business and prepare it for high growth. I professionalised the business, hiring in the necessary operational teams and resetting poorly performing functions such as business development and product. I also developed the partnership strategy and supported the CEO in a commercial reset.
  • Oracle
    Vp / Gm (Managing Director) Of International, Oracle Data Cloud
    Oracle Jun 2018 - Oct 2020
    Austin, Texas, Us
    I led Oracle Data Cloud's Go-to-Market organisations outside of North America.Initially leading a team of ~120 across Europe, Asia and South America, I first brought together the various businesses that made up Oracle Data Cloud but which had not been brought together coherently. At the same time, the business needed to determine its new commercial approach in the wake of EU GDPR and the Cambridge Analytica scandal which impacted its relationship with a key partner. Once settled, my attention turned to opportunities beyond Europe and I led the opening up of programmatic media in Japan, partnering with TrueData to provide suitable targeting data - truly an innovative deal in a nascent market for programmatic media buys. I also spent time championing opportunities for the business in other parts of Asia which culminated in new businesses opening up in India and Korea and an expansion of the footprint in Australia. Staff were also added in Brazil and Mexico and more staff on the ground in Germany to capitalise on local opportunities. My target and achievement was to take a division, International, which was delivering ~ 5% of Oracle Data Cloud (Oracle Advertising) Revenues and expand this to 20%.
  • Grapeshot
    Chief Financial Officer
    Grapeshot Oct 2014 - Jul 2018
    New York, Us
    Grapeshot delivered cookie-free solutions into the programmatic advertising space. In 2014, Grapeshot was high-potential but slow burning market opportunity delivering a few million in revenue from a mainly UK base with a nascent presence in New York. I was the first of a new leadership team to arrive to realise its true potential. Three and a half years later, revenues had grown 25x and the headcount 5x (across 12 offices in six countries) and the business was sold to Oracle Corporation for a significant 8-figure sum. My responsibilities extended across all aspects of the business, from organisation design and execution (overseeing Human Resources), supporting the Chair and Investor Directors in resetting the executive team, determining commercial structures and inking transformative deals for the company (partnering with the US-based CRO), and of course, overseeing equity and debt fundraisings, Board and investor liaison and commercial property deals. As a builder of operational teams I am always thinking about what is "stage appropriate" - at Grapeshot due to the pace of growth, my thoughts were sometimes out of date before I had committed them to paper! A particular challenge was building a world-class Business Intelligence team to handle trillions of data points, distilling the information from the 100+ integrations into actionable insight. Building the right People approach was also crucial in a fast-paced environment in an industry, media, where tenures are very short and retention limited.Grapeshot was acquired by Oracle Data Cloud in May 2018. I was retained post-acquisition to support the transition and then to lead International for Oracle Data Cloud (later Oracle Advertising). This comprised operations in the UK, Europe, Latin America and across Asia.
  • Associated British Foods Plc, Ftse 50, Germains Seed Technology
    Group Finance And Strategy Director
    Associated British Foods Plc, Ftse 50, Germains Seed Technology Feb 2011 - Jun 2014
    A business with a long history, Germains went through a transformation during my time there, opening up its technology to new markets and delivering increased growth and profitability. Amongst other things, I scoped and delivered two new market entry plans into challenging new markets to realise upside and worked through investment plans for new research and manufacturing facilities.
  • Domino Printing Sciences
    Cfo - Europe
    Domino Printing Sciences Jan 2005 - Oct 2010
    Cambridge, Gb
    I was part of the successful leadership team at FTSE250 business, Domino Printing Sciences plc. Domino was going through a period of inorganic growth, adding product capability and distribution channels and I led on nine acquisitions and one divestment. I rose quickly at Domino becoming CFO for Europe overseeing 10+ subsidiaries across Europe, manufacturing and R&D capability in the UK and the global sales and distribution channels (1,000 staff) leading a direct team of 30.
  • Pricewaterhousecoopers
    Corporate Finance Manager
    Pricewaterhousecoopers 1998 - 2004
    Gb
    Working in Transaction Services and Corporate Finance I worked on a number of successful venture vapital fundraises, Due Diligence projects (buy and sell-side), Strategy Work and other Capital Markets work.I qualified in Audit (2001) and am a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (FCA, ICAEW)

Mark Ashworth Skills

Change Management Mergers And Acquisitions Strategy Due Diligence Managerial Finance Leadership Strategic Planning Process Improvement Business Efficiency Business Planning Priority Management Team Restructuring Human Resources It Strategy Business Strategy Auditing Financial Audits Business Process Improvement Accounting Challenge Mentoring Big 4 Best Practices It Management New Markets Development Financial Accounting Corporate Finance Common Sense Challenging Assumptions Enjoy New Challenges Working Capital Management Legal Documents Restructuring Finance Risk Management Ifrs Management Outsourcing Internal Controls Management Accounting Acquisition Integration Financial Modeling Strategic Financial Planning Uk Gaap Contract Negotiation Negotiation Commercial Contracts Zagging Emotional Intelligence Lease Negotiations

Mark Ashworth Education Details

  • University Of Cambridge
    University Of Cambridge
    Mathematics

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