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Farnborough, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for developing UK land and property data products

Farnborough, England, United Kingdom

Developed product strategy of UK data company Emapsite

Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom

• Acquired with team by Experian as a carve-out from Landmark to reinforce Experian’s offering to the insurance sector by providing property data and loss modelling expertise and products.
• Transitioned the acquired products, cloud platform and data science capability into Experian’s technical ecosystem; completed all post-acquisition objectives.
• Rebuilt loss models to use credit bureau data with significant improvement in predictive power.
• Conceived and developed new peril products for home insurers which were successfully launched with promising early sales.
• Conceived and developed a property valuation model for the mortgage origination market, a key strategic objective for the business.

Reading, England, United Kingdom

• Set up from scratch and ran a new division of Landmark charged with exploiting their holdings of property data.
• Created the innovative No-Questions-Asked home insurance loss model which uniquely allows an insurer to price household insurance based on just the address of the property; culminated in carve-out sale to Experian.
• Managed sales, contract negotiation, cloud platform, data acquisition in addition to being actively hands-on in the data science.
• Created a climate change impact service that helped mortgage lenders assess their portfolio exposure for the regulator; acquired 8 mortgage lender customers in the first year.
• Built extremely efficient elite team; resource cost to revenue ratio 1:10.
• Grew division EBIT from £0 to £2m.

Exeter And Reading, UK

• Led the Product Development, IT and Data Science functions of Landmark Information Group.
• Drove turnover from £10m to £100m with a 22% margin.
• Achieved growth by continuously improving the existing product range in addition to creating innovative new information products.
• Integrated the people and products from 4 bolt-on acquisitions into the organisation.
• Steered the product range from raw data delivery to higher value analytic and opinion services.Specialties: UK Property Information. Data modelling. Product Development. Acquisitions.

• Led the Product Development, IT and Data Science functions of Landmark Information Group.
• Drove turnover from £10m to £100m with a 22% margin.
• Achieved growth by continuously improving the existing product range in addition to creating innovative new information products.
• Integrated the people and products from 4 bolt-on acquisitions into the organisation.
• Steered the product range from raw data delivery to higher value analytic and opinion services.

Henley On Thames, UK

Cofounded Prodat Systems which created the mapping product Promap. Coded the first version of the product and then ran the IT function. When Prodat was acquired by DMGT it had 30 members of staff with £3m turnover.