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Our mission at CloudCapcha and Symphony is to help our Accounting Firms and their people find and deploy better ways of working – whether that’s through CloudCapcha’s AI-powered timesheet software or Symphony’s complex automation and integration workflows. The outcomes for our clients include improved well-being, clearer productivity insights, cost savings and of course, more billing.My role is to organise our teams to achieve those objectives for our clients long into the future.Career wise, I’m a serial entrepreneur and Chartered Director with extensive experience in various roles on Boards - Chairman, CEO, President, Non-Executive Director.Over the last 35 years, I’ve been fortunate to have the opportunity to work on some ground-breaking, innovative technology projects around the world in many sectors - Accounting firms, newspaper groups, online marketing, recruitment or payroll.Occasionally, I’ve also helped other business owners sell their companies, realising significant shareholder value for all parties. It’s an exciting exercise to describe how newly combined businesses would maximise their collective potential.I've been a Director of several organisations outside the Accounting sector, including global media IT firms, a UK-based market research company, an international PR agency, a telemarketing business for the medical sector, a fractional sail ownership business, a Pension and financial services adviser and a Payroll user experience platform.Skills & Expertise:-Board performance, Board Chairman, non-Executive Director, Board governance, structure and leadership, start-up funding.Strategy formulation and strategy deployment; strategic performance management.International mergers, disposals, acquisitions, due diligence, deal structure, post-merger integration.Applied innovation, accounting firm process optimisation, marketing & online strategy, branding strategy, international sales channels, online advertising, online recruitment, community journalism, social networking platforms, newspaper technology.
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Chief Executive OfficerSymphony - Aps Aug 2022 - PresentCroydon, Surrey, GbExcited to be leading great teams of people, based across USA, UK, Europe & Australia, in our quest to enhance the productivity & well-being of people working in the Accounting profession. -
Chief Operating OfficerSymphony - Aps Oct 2016 - PresentCroydon, Surrey, GbSymphony - APS helps professional service firms and their clients use software and consulting techniques to improve and grow business value.Over the last 30 years, I’ve been fortunate to have the opportunity to work on some ground-breaking, innovative technology projects around the world. Sometimes supportive of established incumbents like newspaper groups or accounting firms; sometimes disruption plays in online marketing, recruitment or payroll. But, always alongside remarkable people. I’m excited to be working with the talented people at Symphony to deliver practical innovation into our clients and their clients’ businesses.
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Founder & Chartered DirectorBoardroom Excellence Jan 2011 - PresentBoardroom Excellence provides a cloud-based Boardroom management and development portal for the Professional Advisor community to use with their key strategic clients.The portal delivers all that a Board needs to drive an efficient and effective board meeting experience.It features a secure online area which manages agendas, attendees, action registers and which collates and stores all of your important board papers, together with a one-click Board Pack publishing function.In addition, there is a unique resource tool-box created by our own in-house Chartered Directors featuring valuable hints, tips and advice on how best to improve Boardroom performance, alongside unique and insightful content from our partners, including the latest thinking on strategy, risk, management, entrepreneurship, leadership, marketing, technology, finance, people development, governance and much more.Please contact Symphony (http://www.whysymphony.com/) who are now the exclusive sales, support and development partner for Boardroom Excellence.
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Founder & Chartered DirectorAgile Spice Ltd Jan 2013 - Mar 2023At Agile Spice, we work with strong online brands in the business directory, fintech, media and digital marketing sectors to help them add value with their customers.We are able to provide a range of digital solutions to help businesses get more traffic to their websites and social media channels on a massive scale.We have perfect tools for any online brand to sell, manage and report on digital marketing propositions, such as online directories, online newspapers, radio, TV, online payroll and accounting providers and many more.Alongside our digital marketing product activities, our own in-house development team design, create, host and manage data-intensive e-commerce websites for complex specialist applications.We start from the notion that all users are everywhere using every different device to access the web, so we ensure that the user’s experience is rich and fulfilling on all sizes and types of smart device.
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Ceo UkPaydashboard Ltd Nov 2014 - Oct 2016London, London, GbA 2 month advisory role that turned into an amazing and exciting 2 year mission.PayDashboard is a truly independent interactive payslip platform for employees, employers, professional advisors and partners.Its primary goal is to bring insight, guidance and education which will enable employees and employers alike to optimise their remuneration process. The end result is more net pay for the employee at no net cost to the employer.PayDashboard works with some of the best brands and the most innovative providers in the employee benefits’ industry, providing the kind of schemes to the employees of SME businesses which have historically been the exclusive preserve of the very largest of employer organisations.On the team, there are some of the world’s finest user interface designers. They are bringing a fresh approach to the payroll space, creating an experience which has never before been seen in this sector.As a by-product of the services, PayDashboard also helps accountants engage more closely with their clients. Using real-time insights, the platform can highlight needs where an accountant can deliver relevant and timely guidance and add strategic value. -
Strategic AdvisorAssociados Brazil Apr 2005 - Jan 2014After years of providing technology to newspaper groups worldwide, I was delighted to be asked by this leading Brazilian media group to advise them on the commercialisation of their internet presence.During my stint here I have undertaken strategic analysis of the online space in Brazil and beyond, selected and negotiated contracts with suitable suppliers, directed design and delivery of websites and launched leading platforms for auto, real estate and recruitment.From a zero-start, Associados and their newspaper partner brands now have Brazil's no.1 online real estate brand and the no.2 online auto brand. Recruitment is heading the same way.
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Chief Executive OfficerMediasecure Ltd Jul 2004 - Dec 2013A consulting vehicle focused on IT, especially web-based, on newspaper technology vendors to improve processes, to reach new markets, and to prepare for M&A activity.Also actively involved in finding & introducing buyers and sellers of software companies to each other, negotiating the deals, and assisting with post-acquisition integration.
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ChairmanPeople4Business Ltd Apr 2005 - May 2013people4business is a recruitment business dedicated to connecting recruiters and candidates in interim, freelance, contractor and permanent roles in the UK and overseas.I managed the investor relations and launch of this unique online portal, as well as the international development.Canada launched in January 2010 as 4fmv.com and in 2012 expanded into Quebec Province with a French-language version in partnership with Quebecor's jobboom.ca.
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Non-Exec Director & FounderMy Global Safe Ltd Jan 2005 - Sep 2011
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Non Executive DirectorSailtime Europe Oct 2009 - Aug 2010UsSailTime is an international boating business whose aim is to make it easy for people to get out onto the water, with it sbusiness model based upon fractional membership rather than ownership.As non-Executive Director I was specifically involved in the review process that led to the business focusing its efforts by consolidating its position in the UK in preference to wider international expansion.During the same period, the founder disposed of his equity leaving the business in single ownership. -
ChairmanErmtrack Ltd Sep 2006 - May 2008
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President, InternationalAdstar, Inc. Nov 2005 - Jan 2008UsAdStar, Inc. provides technology services to the classified advertising industry, electronically connecting advertisers with newspaper publishing systems, as well as online advertising formats. Their software enables professional advertising agencies, businesses, and individuals to send ads using a single integrated platform.My role was to extend AdStar's presence into international markets and to pioneer new platform offerings. -
President EmeaAtex Media Command Jul 2002 - Jun 2004Reading, Berkshire, GbThe final stage in a 16 year mission in which I took a key role in bringing together the world's leading newspaper software houses, including Trurofield, Matrix, Geac, Cybergraphic, Media Command and Atex.During this process, whilst running profitable businesses, I sold my own companies three times, re-acquired larger variants at lower cost twice, and finally merged with the then largest competitor. -
CeoMedia Command Jul 2001 - Jun 2002Led MBO of Geac Publishing Systems to form Media Command which later merged with Atex to form AMC (see later).
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CooGeac Publishing Systems Aug 1999 - Jun 2001Division of Canadian conglomerate to whom I sold Matrix Publishing Systems. Initially staying on to manage the hand-over, Geac invited me to take on the COO role for their global business out of Tampa, Florida.
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Managing DirectorMatrix Publishing Systems Jul 1994 - Jul 1999After a strategic review showing that Matrix was not core to Pi Holdings' strategy, I led the MBO of this software house providing Circulation management software to the newspaper publishing and distribution sectors (previously known as Trurofield). Immediately embarking on an international expansion strategy, we gained new clients across Europe, Australia and the USA.
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Managing DirectorTrurofield Dec 1991 - Jun 1994Software house providing Circulation management software to the newspaper publishing and distribution sectors. After leading the sale of the business into Pi Holdings in December, I was asked to take over as MD and manage the merger of CSP & Trurofield into the UK's leading vendor in this sector.
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Director & OwnerTrurofield Oct 1987 - Dec 1991Software house providing Circulation management software to the newspaper publishing and distribution sectors.
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Key Accounts SalesIcl Feb 1987 - Oct 1987Account-managed end-user clients and value-added resellers in the media, logistics and manufacturing sectors using ICL mid-range mainframes. Received incredibly good training, but when the Trurofield ownership opportunity came up, I reluctantly had to leave (see later).
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Sales ManagerData Sciences International (Now Adp) May 1980 - Jan 1987Went through a series of roles at payroll services bureaux including mainframe computer operations, through payroll systems analyst; implementation consultant, sales support, sales consultant and finally to sales manager.During this time, consolidation of the sector through acquisitions meant that I worked for Inter-City Computers, Computapay, Mayne Nickless Computer Services and Data Sciences International in continuous employment. The business was finally acquired by ADP shortly after my departure.
Phil Lowe Cdir Skills
Phil Lowe Cdir Education Details
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Institute Of Directors (Iod)Chartered Director -
Institute Of Directors (Iod)Diploma In Company Direction
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Institute Of Directors (Iod)Certificate In Company Direction
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Nottingham University Business SchoolMarketing (Part-Time!)
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Loughborough Grammar School
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