Nicholas Whitford

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Chief Operating Officer @ Public Technologies (PUBT)
United Kingdom
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About Nicholas Whitford

A commercially focused product executive with a proven record of delivering sustainable growth through data-informed, customer-centric strategies and transformations in rapidly growing, PE-backed businesses (series-A/B) and mature, global enterprises.Extensive experience in B2B enterprise SaaS with expertise in data-heavy, AI-powered products and platforms in financial services, expert networks, media and supply chain/logistics.An empathetic and collaborative leader, passionate about creating positive environments and culture to grow, coach and develop teams to unlock their potential and achieve exceptional performance. Achieves agility and cohesion across commercial, product and technology organisations through operational excellence, agile practices and continuous improvement.A technically adept leader with comprehensive experience leading technologically complex products and platforms harnessing AI, analytics, cloud, and real-time capabilities leveraging large data and content sets.

Nicholas Whitford's Current Company Details
Public Technologies (PUBT)

Public Technologies (Pubt)

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Chief Operating Officer
United Kingdom
Employees:
16
Nicholas Whitford Work Experience Details
  • Public Technologies (Pubt)
    Chief Operating Officer
    Public Technologies (Pubt)
    United Kingdom
  • Whitty Advising
    Product Management Consultant & Coach
    Whitty Advising Mar 2023 - Present
    London, England, United Kingdom
    • Helps clients increase and accelerate the ROI on their product and technology investment.• Delivers improved ROI through data-informed product, data, and go-to-market strategies. • Strengthens execution by improving agile development, scaling, hiring, and operating models.Clients have included:• Executive search firm,• Real-time web scraping platform• Alternative investments trading platform• Virtual reality MedTech. Most client’s names are not available due to NDA.
  • Intelligent People
    Mentor
    Intelligent People Oct 2024 - Present
    Mentoring product managers and leaders to support their personal and career growth.
  • Adaptavis
    Product Management Consultant
    Adaptavis Nov 2023 - Present
    London, England, United Kingdom
    Alternative Investment Trading Platform• Strengthened the product craft of product leaders and managers, shifting them to deliver outcomes rather than outputs and be commercially impactful. Delivered through consulting, team training and coaching.
  • Revving
    Strategic Advisor
    Revving Apr 2023 - May 2023
    London, England, United Kingdom
  • Third Bridge Group Limited
    Svp, Global Head Of Product & Distribution - Forum
    Third Bridge Group Limited Jan 2021 - Jul 2022
    London, England, United Kingdom
    Third Bridge is a market-leading global investment research firm. They provide unique, human-led insights to some of the world’s largest hedge funds, mutual funds, private equity funds and management consultancies to help them make better investment decisions. They serve over 1,000 investment firms, offering clients 24/7 coverage through our team of 1,200+ employees across eight offices. Forum is their flagship primary research content offering.• Reporting to the CIO as the most senior Product leader with responsibilities covering Forum product, enterprise data transformation and third-party content distribution. • Owned the product vision, strategy, lifecycle and operating model, growing and leading a product team of 16 direct and 4 dotted-line reports and a wider cross-functional team of over 70 people.• Drove significant ARR growth* in 2021, growing recurring monthly users* through a strategy that delivered a series of industry-first launches, including a new compliance product.• Transformed product and technology group’s operating model and ways of working, increasing customer-centricity, business agility and cohesion with go-to-market teams.• Established Third Bridge’s product management competency and career framework.*ARR/user growth data cannot be provided.
  • Third Bridge Group Limited
    Svp, Global Head Of Product - Forum
    Third Bridge Group Limited May 2020 - Jan 2021
    London, England, United Kingdom
    • Reporting to the President, responsible for the Forum product and all internal content production tools, leading a 45-person cross-functional team. • Drove double-digit ARR growth*, by deliver significant product improvements, enabling double-digit% growth in monthly users* and an overall double-digit % usage increase*. • Spearheaded a strategic data and metadata transformation of all products, tools, and processes, installing third-party company and industry metadata and symbology, leading to a double-digit* % increase in search engine effectiveness, a high-triple-digit % increase in email click-throughs for an overall single-digit % product usage increase.*ARR and product data cannot be provided.
  • Refinitiv
    Vp, Global Head Of Technical Product Management - News, Risk & Separation
    Refinitiv Oct 2018 - May 2020
    London, United Kingdom
    In Oct 2018, Thomson Reuters sold its Finance & Risk division to Blackstone for $20B, creating Refinitiv. An exclusive $325M/year news agreement between Refinitiv and Reuters was established. Moved into Refinitiv as part of the carve-out, leading technical execution of the news agreement.• Significantly expanded role covering the News Platform & News Technical Separation alongside Financial Charts & Calculators, Access & Authorisation platform, and Risk Products.• Designed and grew a new organisation of 33 directs as part of a 170 cross-functional team. • Launched the strategic News API product and expedited UBS’ adoption, enabling a $10M+ enterprise deal and partnership. Led and aligned a 200+ person team to meet a challenging deadline on an entirely new cloud technology ecosystem for Refinitiv APIs.• Avoided $3M in costs by delivering all news separation projects on time, steering the delivery team through a complex range of technology and operational interdependencies across the two organisations.
  • East London Business Alliance
    Student Mentor
    East London Business Alliance Jan 2016 - Oct 2018
    London Area, United Kingdom
    • Speaking at school career days, promoting careers in technology and helping write students’ CVs• Speed mentoring sessions, advising final year student on university and career choices
  • Thomson Reuters
    Vp, Global Head Of Product Management - News Platform Services
    Thomson Reuters Aug 2014 - Oct 2018
    London, United Kingdom
    Thomson Reuters (45,000 employees, $11.3B revenue) provides content, data, and workflow products for Finance, Legal, Accounting and Media professionals globally. • Promoted to lead the News Platform, providing news and data aggregation, search, and classification using AI and ML to over 40 desktop and feed/API products across 3 BUs ($2B ARR). • Led the 120-engineering team with 12 direct reports, spanning 6 offices from Hong Kong to USA. • Delivered $300M ARR retention of strategic clients by launching a unified Eikon News App and a completely redesigned Thomson One News app for over 500K users.• Retained $30M ARR by evolving data offering for real-time economic data and polling data for FX, commodities & fixed income. Transformed underlying technology, delivering $10M savings.• Spearheaded $50M in savings through product and platform transformations & consolidations.• Delivered a significantly enhanced news experience through an industry-wide change, evolving the data exchange standards of hundreds of news and content providers globally
  • Thomson Reuters
    Senior Director, Product Management - News Collections And Distribution
    Thomson Reuters Apr 2013 - Sep 2014
    London, United Kingdom
    • Responsible for the real-time News collection platform aggregating 650K stories/day, powering flagship desktop and feed/API products Eikon, Thomson One and Elektron ($1.2B ARR) serving over 500K customers.• Owned the technical relationships with over 100 content providers, financial news agencies, stock exchanges and other real-time financial market information providers.• Led the 95-person team with 9 direct reports, spanning 5 offices from Hong Kong to the USA.• Spearheaded a platform transformation, achieving $15M in operation and technology savings, reducing the time to add new content from 90 days to 10 days.
  • Thomson Reuters
    Product Manager
    Thomson Reuters Feb 2009 - Apr 2013
    London, United Kingdom
    • Delivered speed improvements for market-moving news, increasing win rates vs. Bloomberg from 63% to 97% through new workflow tools & machine learning (AI/NLP) bots/automations used by over 2,500 journalists globally.
  • Self
    Dj - Clubs & Radio
    Self Mar 2003 - Oct 2008
    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
    DJing around most of Sydney's clubs and bars.Candy's Apartment, Tank, Chinese Laundry, Globe, Club 77, Home & more...
  • Bauer Media Australia
    Project Manager / Lead Business Analyst - Supply Chain
    Bauer Media Australia Mar 2003 - Jul 2008
    Sydney, Australia
    PBL Media (now AreMedia) were the largest print magazine publisher and distributor in APAC region. • Delivered $3M supply chain efficiencies by delivering predictive analytics, forecasting tools, and digital transformations affecting technology, operations and over 5000 retailers.
  • Seven Network
    Software Developer
    Seven Network 2000 - 2003
    Sydney, Australia

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Nicholas Whitford attended Macquarie University, Saint Ignatius'​ College Riverview.

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