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London, England, Gb

London, Gb

Leicester, England, Gb

London, London, Gb

Creating the next generation of leaders

San Mateo, California, Us

Coventry, West Midlands, Gb

Distrito Federal, Mx

I advise CEOs of digital ventures across a range of sectors in scaling-up. Assignments range from business strategy and product market fit to NPD, Positioning and BD strategy.

Leeds, Gb

London, London, Gb

I work with the Octopus Ventures team to help the CEOs of existing ventures to accelerate growth, optimise positioning and to scale their ventures to a market leadership position.

Brighton, England, Gb

London, England, Gb

London, England, Gb

I chair the Firefly board working with the founders, non-execs , British Growth Fund and Berengea and provide advice on strategy, performance and governance. Previously I helped Firefly founders to accelerate growth and build a new growth plan which has led to cloud-based support for c. 500 schools in 30 countries.

London, London, Gb

London, England, Gb

Joined 3 months after product introduction and helped FutureLearn scale x10 against key metrics agreed with board (learners 400k->4m, courses 32->350, partners 12->130) in two years. Achievement of growth metrics, brand awareness and first £millions of revenues encouraged 2nd round funding by the Open University.

Distrito Federal, Mx

Advisor and non-exec director for international growth strategy for Firefly - a digital learning platform for secondary schools

London, Uk, Gb

Led UK turnaround revitalising growth from -2% to +25% against strong competitive & price pressure and headed-up international expansion into Australia, Hong Kong ,Ireland & UAE.Headed up all Global B2B growth strategies and teams - Charities and created new multiple-million £ fundraising business lines and partnerships with 200 Corporates, Event Organisers (incl Nova, Active, Brighton), Media and Technology Partners (Vodafone JusttextGiving) & ITV TextSanta) Strategy and Business Planning with JustGiving leadership team

London, Gb

Commercial and strategic leadership of online payments within the Barclaycard Payment Acceptance business unit, reporting to the MD, Paul Cook.Accountability for strategy development and performance management for all corporate and small business payment propositions.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Recruited to grow the PayPal UK business by creating popular, innovative solutions and helping launch new verticals (financial products and merchant services). In 42 months, helped establish PayPal as the UK’s most visited financial website and fastest growing on-line payments system (increasing membership from 2m to 15m. Launched and managed first international financial products Devised PayPal’s financial products strategy: successfully launched PayPal Credit Card, achieved all 2006 commercial targets and devised 3 year product development plan Led strategic partnership and product integration with Royal Mail/Parcelforce Managed market entry strategy for PayPal Merchant Services business – market analysis, channel and product development enabling PayPal to launch SME build UK channel Led PayPal’s re-entry into on-line betting – managed implementation and merchant integrations.Managed PayPal UK site adaptations enabling PayPal as preferred payment option for eBay in UK

Gb

Brought in to convert IntaMission from ‘R&D’ mode to a commercial enterprise infrastructure vendor. In eight months successfully launching and marketed first product, followed by 3 releases in next 9 months.. Delivered all 2002 Product objectives (product strategy, proposition, commercial release, team, systems and processes) generating necessary investor confidence to secure follow-on VC funding and enabled IntaMission to build a solid pipeline of 50 Fortune prospects. Member of IntaMission Management team. staff: 8; contractors: 6 budget: £200k per year

Brought in to redesign MIMEsweeper product and alliances strategy and establish solid product management processes ahead of planned IPO. Expanded revenues by 60% in first year, grew team from 5 to 24. Promoted to VP in Jan 2001. Responsible for product management, marketing communications, PR , web, alliances and training. Chaired Global Product Council (internal product prioritisation group) and helped to lead the company’s Global Strategy Forum (business strategy & vision).

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Successfully enabled high profile FTSE & Fortune clients to achieve substantial technology-enabled change. Conducted market and profitability assessments and designed new IT strategiesInternet Bank Devised and managed implementation of a new IT strategy which included a redesign of the organisation, identification of required competencies and a new alliance management process enabling Egg to implement their new eBusiness strategy.Private Equity Firm Conducted a market, product and revenue assessment of a high technology acquisition target to validate the logic of the acquisition. Blue-chip Asset Management Firm Managed and delivered an operational and IT analysis to determine how to source and manage operationsGlobal Investment Bank Designed a new Information Management Strategy to enable the post-merger integration and help the bank to out-compete US global investment banks. Established competencies, new alliancing strategy and organisational design .

New York City, Us

Reported to the COO of the Dow Jones Markets Division and managed an international cross-functional program development team of 80 people with $40m capital budget and an annual marketing budget of $3m. Work experience included extended periods in Europe, the US, Asia and Australia.Increased divisional revenue from $180m to $300m in four years by effective marketing management.Undertook strategic product positioning then designed & implemented operational marketing plan. Launched new global product into ten countries. Established and managed a 3rd party developers programme - budget of $2m - resulting in the creation of application solutions.Programme director of datafeed infrastructure (database, networks) and applications programme creating customer ready versions of the Dow Jones Feed on the Dow Jones Platform & Workstation.

Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bsc, Physics