Nandu Govindankutty

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Senior Exec Roles, Product Champion, Executive Coach, Two time founder @ Done Often Better Than Perfect
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London, England, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
About Nandu Govindankutty

Senior executive roles, Product and Data Lover, Executive Coach, Investor & Advisor in early stage tech companies & co-founder of a social movement.Inventor of CsuiteRetro - an experiential and immersive leadership coaching programme focused on blind spots for CSuite. Delivered sessions for Amazon, Microsoft, Qatar Airways, Scotia Bank, Santander, Nokia, Barclays, Dubai Port, Three, Cochin Chamber of Commerce, BT and Sky.  https://www.csuiteretro.com/Track record of turning around underperforming business units, leading new product development and building high performing and diverse teams. Undertaken senior executive roles working across UK & US within financial services, payments, cyber security, loyalty, AI & digital. 15+ years experience successfully delivering $100m+ transformation programmes, leading global teams (incl Directors, VPs),and helping teams accelerate digital innovation.Obsessed about Customer & Colleague experiences.Balanced.Social 2022 (Social media platform for Balanced news using AI)Barclays Ventures 2019 (large investment fund, and mandate by Barclays board to create new business lines & products– Business Unit head for Cyber Security)Cyber Fusion 2017 (AI powered in-house Cyber Attack prevention software at a fraction of the cost of vendors )Rise 2014 (Fintech ecosystem & Accelerators in London & New York – organised largest fintech hackathon ever)Accessibility Initiative 2013 (Talking ATMs, High Visibility Cards, Sign Language Mobile App – covered favourably by the media for the innovative use of disability simulation kits, several awards & commended by UN) Pingit 2012 (Peer2Peer Payment App - Europe's first, NPS 71, 25+ awards, first (public) agile delivery at Barclays)Freedom 2010 (Payment & Loyalty Solution partnering Shell, Pizza Express, Goldsmiths, using cutting edge data analytics 14% increase in sales )Confused.com, based in Cardiff - Set up the Insights team (profitable at a very early stage with significant revenues). UK's first price comparison website & UK’s early start-up success story. Co-Founder of Making A Difference Through Analytics (since 2010) - a voluntary movement to help charities and social enterprises achieve their ambitions quicker & better, using data and tech. Supported by 800+ volunteers globally across the corporate world, academia and startups. In 2019 organised the food waste hackathon involving 31 countries with the support of UK Government (DEFRA), Barclays, Google and University of Cambridge.

Nandu Govindankutty's Current Company Details
Done Often Better Than Perfect

Done Often Better Than Perfect

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Senior Exec Roles, Product Champion, Executive Coach, Two time founder
Nandu Govindankutty Work Experience Details
  • Done Often Better Than Perfect
    Managing Partner
    Done Often Better Than Perfect Sep 2022 - Present
    London, England, United Kingdom
    Executive Coaching and Leadership Development Programmes focused on Blind spotsC-Suite Retro - one of the first of its kind in the corporate industry (details below). Delivered CSuite Retro for Nokia, Amazon, Santander, British Telecom, Sky, Scotia Bank, Barclays, Qatar Airways, Microsoft, Dubai Port, Cochin Chamber of Commerce and Three Mobile .Training for Non Exec Directors (Board Members) to be effective.Senior Management Leadership Programme - specialising in overcoming blindspots, asking good questions (an under indexed and often ignored important virtue), thinking outside the box, embracing frugal innovation.A Unique C Suite Retro ModelBorrowed from the 'agile' methodology, retro is a compelling and honest way to reflect on the past, celebrate successes, introspect into areas that needs to or can be improved and to create a clear, documented action plan with agreed outcomes to build high-performing teams and partnerships. Exceptional feedback from leaders across all the organisations who have gone through this rigorous framework & programme and have made changes to the way they work.Delivered a Strategy review and recommendations for AI Ethics in the Supply Chain for Heineken. Created the Cyber Security Product Strategy for Nokia's Cloud Business to respond to the new Telecoms Security Act.Designing the framework & strategy and responding to The Electronic Communications Regulations 2022 - one of the toughest telecoms cyber security regulations in the world with fines nearly double that of GDPR.Set up the framework and cadence for Nokia to adhere to the regulations, delivered training sessions for the senior leadership (on the new regulation) and also helped Nokia's strategic partners including British Telecom and Sky to understand the implications and be able to respond and be compliant.
  • Balanced.Social
    Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder
    Balanced.Social Apr 2021 - Aug 2022
    San Francisco, California, United States
    Launched a social media platform for balanced & trustworthy news using AI for consumers and businesses - 1000+ authors, 450+ topics, 60% RVR. Built a AI balanced generator that uses network models and machine learning to show multiple sides of the echo chambers on all topics discussed in social media - first of its kind. Endorsements from leading journalists, VCs like Mithril (founded by Peter Thiel) as the best solution in market.
  • Barclays Uk
    Chief Exploration Officer- Cyber & Founding Team Member, Barclays Ventures
    Barclays Uk Jul 2018 - Mar 2021
    London Area, United Kingdom
    P&L owner of the Cyber Security Business . Responsible for building new business lines within Cyber Security to bring in significant additional revenue to Barclays through partnerships, Joint Ventures, organic build and investments.Successfully soft launched a B2B Cyber Product, led the discussions for JV with one of the largest cyber security companies in the world, my team launched a B2C white labelled cyber security product, oversaw investments in early stage companies in Tel Aviv, designed a pilot patent commercialisation framework, Accountable Executive for partnerships with several VC funds (US, Israel, UK) and Team 8 - a venture builder fund.
  • Making A Difference Through Analytics (Madta)
    Co - Founder
    Making A Difference Through Analytics (Madta) Jan 2011 - Feb 2021
    London Area, United Kingdom
    Co-Founder of Making A Difference Through Analytics - MADTA - a movement to help charities and social enterprises achieve their ambitions quicker & better, using data and tech. Supported by 800+ volunteers globally across the corporate world, academia and startups including Barclays, Google and Oracle.
  • Barclays
    Group Cyber Resilience & Data Director, Security Office
    Barclays Apr 2016 - Jul 2018
    London, United Kingdom
    Built a cutting edge Fusion automated platform using Machine Learning, inhouse. It harnessed big data - internal and external (law enforcement agencies) raw data, real-time to detect information on security threats, harden defences against cyber intrusions and pre-empt attacks using anomalies detection. Built a world-class team comprising prominent data engineers, data scientists, data visualisation ninjas.Responsible for driving and delivering Organisational Resilience and Cyber Resilience. Led the Resilience Partners for the service company and the Group Resilience Shared Services team operating out of UK, US, India and Singapore. Worked in Partnership with National Cyber Security Centre, Cyber Defence Alliance to ensure that the UK by design is resilient against cyber disruption.
  • Barclays
    Customer Engagement Director, Design & Digital Office
    Barclays Mar 2012 - Apr 2016
    London, United Kingdom
    Responsible for accelerating innovation and driving customer experience transformation. Launched programmes like Living in the Customers’ World, Barclays Open Innovation Networking Days, , Fix it – A social collaboration programme for colleagues, Financial Health – an educational programme using data visualisation across branches for customers in financial difficulty, co-inventor of S Delta - the objective quantification and measurement of the lifetime of a tweet. Designed and delivered a leadership development programme for 7,500 leaders globally focusing on Customer Obsession, Unconscious Bias and exponential thinking through experiential learning.Part of the team which built PingIt (Europe's first peer to peer payment mobile app), Barclays Mobile Banking app and first institutional research app for Investment Bank.
  • Barclays
    Vice President , Competitive Strategy & Payments
    Barclays Sep 2010 - Mar 2012
    London Area, United Kingdom
    Senior Strategy Manager responsible for the Competitive Strategy for the UK Retail Bank.Part of the team to deliver a Single View of the Customer across Barclays Bank and Barclaycard, customer segmentation models, campaign strategy, real time offers at pos and MI reporting/ data visualisation for Retail Clients. This delivered a 14% increase in Barclaycard sales at retail partners.
  • Rise, Created By Barclays - The Home Of Fintech
    Founding Member
    Rise, Created By Barclays - The Home Of Fintech Feb 2012 - Apr 2015
    London Area, United Kingdom
    Founding member of the Barclays Open Innovation Programme in February 2012, which went on to become branded as Rise. Helped run the first open innovation programme at Barclays, Barclays Accelerator in partnership with Tech Stars, eco systems across London, New York, Manchester, Mumbai.Organised the largest fin tech Hackathon across Mumbai and Manchester with over 1,000 participants.
  • Manchester Business School
    Guest Lecturer For Mba Students
    Manchester Business School 2010 - 2012
  • Confused.Com
    Senior Customer Analyst
    Confused.Com Aug 2009 - Sep 2010
    Cardiff, United Kingdom
    Confused.com, based in Cardiff - Set up the Insights team (profitable at a very early stage with significant revenues). UK's first price comparison website & UK’s early start-up success story.
  • Royal & Sunalliance
    Marketing Analyst - Customer Insight
    Royal & Sunalliance Nov 2004 - Aug 2009
    Horsham, England, United Kingdom
    Graduate analytics roles across Liverpool and Horsham. Worked across Operations, Research, Product & Marketing. Won several accolades and awards internally for consistent performance and identified as one of the future leaders with an accelerated growth trajectory.

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Nandu Govindankutty attended University Of Cambridge, The Wharton School, University Of Liverpool, University Of Calicut, Stanford University.

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