Peter Barnes Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

London, Gb

Member of the Board of Trustees and Chair of the FAR committee. Supporting UKCISA in financial wellbeing and future sustainability

Eindhoven, Nl

Studyportals is the global study choice platform. Empowering the world to choose education. As COO, I focus on enabling Studyportals to make insight led decisions, while ensuring solid financial and strategic foundations. Leading the Finance and People & Culture functions as we connect Universities with students from around the globe. Joining a strong leadership team to take this exciting entrepreneurial business to the next level.

London, England, Gb

London, Gb

Brighton, Gb

As Managing Director, I had direct responsibility to the Board for executing and delivering upon company strategy. The company runs 3 main websites: The Student Room, Get Revising and The Uni Guide.Formed in 2001 as a discussion forum for students to share experiences & learning resources, TSR Group has grown profitably, organically and through acquisition, into the UK’s only online student community of scale with over 125m visits per year, 75% of the UK's 14-24 student population visit each year and 40% of them are registered, as well as having most of the UK's universities, and many corporate recruiters and consumer brands as its clients.TSR Group helps students from GCSE to the end of university and provides them with tools, articles & peer-to-peer support across three key student needs: Study Help, Pathways & Life around Learning. TSR's uniquely broad student offering includes, for instance, a revision timetable builder, tools for students to create interactive quizzes, flash cards, mindmaps & more, a personal statement builder tool, discussion forums for students who are choosing a uni to get advice from other students, health & relationship support, student finance, shopping, hobbies & interests, study help, university and recruiter guides & much more.TSR also helps universities, recruiters and consumer brands understand and engage with the UK's largest student community through a range of promotion, engagement and research & insight products and services.TSR Group were winners of the Edtech20 at Edtech Europe 2014 - recognising them in the top 3 fastest growing and most innovative Edech companies in EuropeMost recently TSR won Employer of the Year in the Brighton and Hove Business Awards

Brighton, Gb

As the group’s Chief Operating Officer I am responsible for the development, design, operation and improvement of the systems and processes that help create, shape and deliver TSR’s corporate strategy. I am accountable for the allocation of company resources in order to capitalise the effectiveness of all monies disbursed, with the aim of creating maximum value for the company's stakeholders. Additionally, I oversee the development and release of all TSR’s projects, exploiting growth opportunities by prioritising highest value projects. ✔ Developed and implemented operational performance measures with consideration of efficiency versus effectiveness, in addition to providing high level reports that offer convenient review of key business indicators to help the business identify and exploit growth opportunities. ✔ Developed and implemented the organisation’s strategy/mission statement across the business, and implemented appropriate recognition and coaching practices to align our team with the company objectives. ✔ Transformed one of our most integral marketing functions into a high performing business unit, resulting in 9 months of consecutive year on year growth.

Brighton, Gb

» Finance and Operations Director I initially joined TSR as Head of Finance and Operations where my primary responsibility was to set and progress all financial and operational strategies. As an integral part of the executive leadership team, I was accountable for contributing to communal activities and working with all internal and external departments to ensure continuous operational improvement and resolution of any root-cause issues affecting the business financial efficiencies. ✔ Led the restructure of our entire sales department, which included negotiating the release of our contracted employees in order to bring them in-house as permanent team members, which immediately increased revenue and delivered full payback of investment within a year. ✔ Recognised quality improvement opportunities and led the process of developing and implementing new structures in order to improve operational performance, simplifying and improving the way we run the business on a day to day basis. ✔ Reduced performance risks by introducing automated management account products and improved forecasting techniques, to allow the business to better forecast budget requirements and prospective acquisitions. » Managing Director of Learning I additionally performed the role of Managing Director of TSR Learning, where I was required to develop and lead a number of projects and acquisitions to improve the financial performance of our learning products. ✔ Led the acquisition process of our ‘Get Revising’ product and monetised the product from no revenue production to having a significant long term B2C revenue stream. ✔ Evolved our ‘Marked by Teachers’ product from being course work focused to exams focused, improving user experience, SEO and conversion rate optimisation, subsequently increasing student acquisition numbers

Havant, Hampshire, Gb

As Head of Business Intelligence I was ultimately responsible for effectively leading the business intelligence and analytics function, which involved collating data to support decision making across all business units, analysing complex business issues and proposing commercially driven solutions. Additionally I was accountable for the improving the data accessibility in order to increase departmental accountability and improve the level of decision making across the entire organisation.✔ Led system integrations, working closely with IT to support the integration of our CRM and billing systems, creating a better synergy between sales and finance.✔ Improved the business’s data accessibility, improving the level of decision making across the entire organisation.

Heysham, Lancashire, Gb

As Head of Operations I was part of the Executive Management team, where I was required to take complete operational ownership and full financial accountability. I was also responsible for providing leadership to all business units to ensure that all operational actions and outcomes positively supported the business’s overall strategy. ✔ Actively participated in the successful acquisition process of Job Group and led the takeover process which involved co-leading the day to day running of the business for short period of time, in order to recover costs and build sales momentum. ✔ Successfully led the acquisition of InRetail, which included negotiating the targeted purchase price and integrating complex technologies.