Russell Gould Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Cambridge, GB

Providing one-to-one mentoring to students throughout the two-year program, offering practical industry insights to help them develop innovative business ideas and refine existing ventures.

I use this trading name and entity to provide advisory, consultancy, mentoring and contract services.

London, GB

Alterest toolkit is essential for wholesale finance providers, banks pursuing fintech lending strategies, and buyers of loan portfolios globally.

Manchester, Manchester, GB

A hybrid letting agency with tech at its core. I provide advice to the founders and board members.

London, England, GB

Launched an innovative online proptech marketplace for buying and selling residential investment property achieving over £1 billion in property listings.

Solihull, West Midlands, GB

Providing advisory support across several key business projects and initiatives including supporting digital transformation and new product development with a key focus on Buy-to-Let sustainability, carbon neutral and net zero initiatives.

London, England, GB

Supporting the senior business team in an advisory and expert capacity with a focus on digital and commercial lending.

London, England, GB

Provided strategic support to the founders across ideation, product development, regulatory and compliance frameworks, operational processes, and funding strategies. The UK's first fully licensed, full-stack Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform received approval from the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

GB

Provided mentoring support to the founders of Seedcamp invested start-ups.

London, England, GB

Provided strategic and operational advisory support to the CEO and senior leadership team, focusing on optimising operations and strengthening business strategy. Took on the role of Interim COO to lead operational management and drive business development, supporting the company’s mission to simplify SME access to tailored funding solutions through its.

London, England, GB

Post the Everline purchase, I joined the Ezbob founders to help set up and run their UK operations, recruit a sales and credit underwriting team to complement Isreal based operations. Initially a digital SME lender, the business evolved into an embedded banking and finance technology provider.

Pioneered the online SME lending space, founding Everline – a fintech SME lender, and scaling it to acquisition by Ezbob Ltd. Ideation, go-to-market strategy, branding, launch and leveraged data science and machine learning to optimise risk decisions. Operations across Ireland, South Africa, Ukraine and the UK. The combined businesses lent over £100M to.

Walsall, West Midlands, GB

Engaged initially as a consultant, then invited by the CEO to join on an interim basis to lead HomeServe’s e-commerce business and drive its digital transformation strategy."Russell Gould provided significant value to the business, improving the online channel performance, initiating a more robust strategic approach to eCommerce and delivering marked.

GB

Directed the multi-channel digital distribution strategy, including full e-commerce P&L responsibility, digital operations, CRM strategy, and oversight of the Travel TV channel and partnerships business. Led a team of approximately 100. Grew Thomas Cook’s digital distribution from 19% to 28% within 18 months.

Responsible for strategy, management, development, team, and growth of digital distribution and sales. Increased online sales bookings and revenue by over 500%. Brands - Airtours, Direct Holidays, Panorama, Manor, Going Places, The Cruise Store and Cresta Holidays.

GB

Led the Group's e-commerce business and online product propositions, overseeing digital product development for mortgages, wealth management, savings, personal loans, and insurance products. Management and P&L responsibility for digital broker Charcolonline. Implemented Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) mortgage regulation changes, ensuring compliance.

London, England, GB

Managed the strategic development of various product offerings (mortgages, e-wealth savings, personal loans, general and life insurance) across all delivery channels. Oversaw internal and external product sourcing platforms, led the product database team, and owned the online customer proposition along with e-commerce strategy and development, while being.

London, GB

Defined, developed, implemented, and managed the Norwich Union IFA mortgage sales channel structure, including recruitment and team management. Additionally, managed IFA sales for Equity Release and Savings products.

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

Started at ANZ Bank in a branch role, progressing through marketing, product development, and sales. Ultimately led strategy and team management for mortgage customer retention, the mobile mortgage manager channel, and the mortgage broker channel. Resigned to travel but was offered 18 months leave without pay.