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Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Applying tech to build custom strategy solutions for world football, fine art, and entertainment executives- Strategy Graphs- Machine Learning & Computer Vision- Small Language Models- Time Series Forecasting

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

In-house strategy consultant, partnering with exec leadership to develop investment cases, annual strategic plans, segmentation analysis, market entry execution, M&A activity, innovation frameworks, and workshop facilitation. Leading AI Lab to build products, capabilities, adopt key tech, and apply it where most impactful. Key markets include: Africa, ANZ, Pakistan, India, China, HK, International, UK.

London, England, United Kingdom

In-house strategy consulting, leading impactful projects across the enterprise and its business units (fine art, data centre, digital solutions and records management, consumer and secure business storage)

Western Europe

Growing Iron Mountain’s Crozier Fine Arts and Entertainment Services (IMES) businesses in the UK, Netherlands, France and Switzerland. - Integrating acquisitions to gain synergies, efficiency, and agility - Building Crozier’s European commercial strategy - Driving service margin improvements through procurement initiatives and process engineering. - Revenue growth through pricing excellence and sales enablement. - Material cost savings and control through disciplined P&L management. - Leading engagement with HMRC for customs warehouse license transfer and expansion.- Covid-19 crisis management global response team - Leading agile workshops to quickly innovate using design thinking (LDJ methodology) to prioritise resources by impact and effort

London, United Kingdom

Alongside SVP Western Europe and our leadership team, we led this $500m business unit, consisting of 240 sites, 4,000 employees, across 12 countries (UK, Ireland, France, Spain, BeNeLux, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, and Romania). - Consistently grew revenue and EBITDA 2-3% in mature markets by developing strategic playbook and driving accountability through clear deliverables. - Drove strategic P&L levers that resulted in $10m in full year impact (revenue management, M&A activity, cost control).- Led 'high-potential' programme to expose key talent to senior management whilst solving real business problems.

London, United Kingdom

In collaboration with the SVP and UKIN Managing Director, responsible for this $300m business unit, consisting of 85 sites and 2,500 employees - the second largest territory in the IRM global portfolio. - Reversed historical downward revenue trend to deliver year on year growth. - Improved commercial effectiveness (talent, structure, systems) led to a 40% reduction in customer terminations, 50% increase in sales. - 10% reduction in SG&A through better discipline and cost controls. - Service margin improvement of 2% achieved through continuous improvement operational initiatives.

London, United Kingdom

Started, managed, and grew the UK expansion of this US owned, privately funded, medical supply distributor. - Authorised distributor or 3M, Welch Allyn, and Zoll high-grade medical equipment.- Achieved $1m in revenue in less than 4 years by developing a multi-channel sales and marketing strategy (e-commerce, public sector, and medical schools). - Increased profitability 15% by launching a new cardiology partnership.

Sacramento/Fresno California Area

Led Whirlpool's $20m distributor and home-builder business in Central California. - Achieved multi-year revenue growth by consistently achieving more than 110% of sales quota. - Developed sales, marketing, and merchandising strategies to promote Whirlpool, KitchenAid, Maytag, and Jenn-Air brands across the region.

Master’S Degree, Business Management, Merit Honours Awarded

Activities and Societies: Bristol Entrepreneurs SocietySchool of Economics, Finance, and Management

Bachelor’S Degree, Marketing

NCAA Men's Soccer - Student Athlete (4 years)