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London, Gb

Key achievements• Worked with the CEO to spin the business out of Man Group Plc and raise investment into the standalone new business. Produced and presented financial projections, business plans and model for investor presentations. Led negotiations of legal agreements with lawyers. • Restructured the legal entities of the business and set up all business operations from greenfield environment.• Director alongside the CEO, driving the commercial success of the business. Developed and evolved business model to profitability.• Created with CEO the product and commercial model, produced marketing material and client proposals. • Negotiate all legal agreements with both customers and suppliers. • Set up ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 control environments, successfully obtained certification for the company • Successfully designed and built offshore operating model, migrating the client data management functions from London to India. Set up the subsidiary from a greenfield environment including legal entity, and business support functions. Recruited the team and set up operational procedures.• Led reorganisation of in house IT development team, outsourcing and offshoring of development. Then completed internal redundancy programme. • Managed the HR function from setting up policies, recruiting, running redundancy programmes and successfully defending employment tribunal case.

Key achievements• The completion of the FSA regulation of an MGS JV seed Investment Company so that the company could trade independently of the Man Investments regulatory umbrella• Successful set up of two hedge fund management joint ventures, that MGS was acting as seed investor in.• Created new revenue and profitability analysis giving greater transparency to senior management on performance of the business unit. • Created a due diligence framework for reviewing the operational strength of the companies that the business unit had investments with.

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Key achievements: • Managed and coordinated the engagements of global asset managers at a senior level demonstrating excellent technical skills. • Led a team of 20 people at three different locations working on three different Group divisions of one client. As well as managing multiple other teams on other clients. • Managed people, allocating and reviewing work. In addition to providing on the job training and career counselling, acting as career coach and mentor to junior staff.• Coordinate with a number of offices worldwide and within the UK.• Worked under extreme pressure and to tight deadlines. • Quickly adapted to new circumstances and situations, developing an understanding of clients and their processes. • Have good negotiating skills, having to resolve significant areas of conflict, as well as resolving low level day to day issues.• Good communication skills reporting into directors and senior management, communicating complex issues and reaching conclusion on those issues.

Central, Hk

Ba (Hons) Modern History And Politics

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