CFO/COO Role, building Omnea, the all-in-one platform for spend control. Omnea allows companies to manage their purchases, renewals, and supplier relationships from one consolidated place, whilst putting user experience front and centre.

NB: I get a *Lot* of LinkedIn messages; please don't take it personally if I don't reply! Re: open roles at Omnea, we're 100x more likely to see an application than a LinkedIn message-- so don't wait to submit an application at jobs.ashbyhq.com/omnea 🚀

Ongoing consulting services for HiBob following the acquisition of Pento by HiBob in February 2024, assisting across post-merger integration, finance, people, management information systems, payroll go-to-market & professional services, and payroll product development.

Chief Operating Officer at Pento (Exited to HiBob in February 2024)

CFO/COO role, directly looking after the People & Talent, Finance, Legal & Biz/RevOps teams, and between May 2023 - April 2024, also the R&D / Engineering teams to drive Pento's updated strategic vision.Pento is the first fully automated payroll for medium sized UK businesses wanting to run payroll like it's the 21st century.Loved by HR and Finance teams, Pento automates calculations, compliance, and payments. With Pento's team of Payroll Specialists at hand, you can run payroll confidently in minutes - Not days.

Tessian was acquired by Proofpoint in 2023.Operations-focussed Chief Financial Officer, fundraising and leading internal operating divisions; Finance, People, Legal & Compliance, IT, Information Security and Facilities at Tessian. Joined Tessian as employee #4 pre-Seed investment and through the Seed (Accel, LocalGlobe), Series A (Balderton), Series B (Sequoia) and Series C (March Capital, Schroder Adveq, Sozo, Okta) funding rounds, through to c. 300 employees.Tessian protects every business’s mission by securing the human layer. Using machine learning / AI technology, Tessian automatically predicts and eliminates advanced threats on email caused by human error - like data exfiltration, accidental data loss, business email compromise and phishing attacks - with minimal disruption to employees' workflow. As a result, employees are empowered to do their best work, without security getting in their way. Founded in 2013, Tessian is an Enterprise B2B SaaS Security company backed by renowned investors like March Capital, Sequoia, Accel, Balderton and LocalGlobe, and has offices in San Francisco, Austin, Boston and London.

Operations-focussed Chief Financial Officer, Leading internal Operations; Finance, People, Legal & Compliance, IT, Information Security and Facilities at Tessian

As Chief of Staff, the role focuses on solving operational business problems, facilitating the running of the company, and being the team lead for Tessian's go-to all-rounders. As a member of the Executive Team, the role also involves acting as company ambassador.Oversaw growth from 7 to 95 employees hired during 2-year tenure as Chief of Staff.Having joined Tessian as employee 7 (including the 3 founders) the role has also encompassed scaling Tessian through the pre-seed, seed and Series A stages, building teams to run Hiring/Talent & People, Legal and Compliance, IT, Finance, & on-going Operations through exponential company growth, including planning and execution for the said increase in scale. Responsibilities span all business areas excluding product creation, deployment & support and revenue generation. These responsibilities include strategic finance, involvement and assistance with fundraising, management of company accounts and budget forecasting, headcount planning, leadership and effective management in all areas of staffing and personnel, recruiting, and administration, and strategic project and risk management.

Women Empowering Diversity in Start-ups (WEDS) is a network founded by women in start-ups who believe that diversity and inclusion of all kinds are essential and drive happiness and success in the workplace. We use the fresh opportunity start-ups present, to change industry culture for the better. We know the challenges of having an impact when limited by team size, budget and resources. By sharing knowledge and experience we provide a platform to help build diverse, inclusive environments where it may otherwise be an overwhelming challenge. We want to share our success stories, showcase diversity and encourage and empower others to do the same.

The WISE Young Professionals' Board (formerly the WISE Young Women's Board) supports WISE with driving the campaign to encourage more people into STEM careers and promote gender balance and equality in STEM. As Chair, I coordinate, organise and drive the Board's projects and activities to achieve our objectives, and increase the visibility of Women in STEM roles and industries.https://www.wisecampaign.org.uk/about-us/young-professionals-board

The WISE Young Professionals' Board (formerly the Young Women's Board) supports WISE with driving the campaign to encourage more people into STEM careers and promote gender balance and equality in STEM.https://www.wisecampaign.org.uk/about-us/young-professionals-board

S Castiglione Limited was formed to allow the completion of a project to design, develop, implement an original puzzle gameThis project involved the design, development and building of the logic behind the game-mechanics, in addition to coding for the website, iOS, and Android apps (written predominantly in JavaScript), using Cordova to wrap the web apps for mobile deployment. Of particular note, no image files were used in the game, instead using images drawn within the browser using HTML5 and animations done using selective redraws, CSS & the Velocity.js library.

Pensions actuarial roles covering Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution schemes.- Developing models for investment and funding analysis and monitoring- Screening and analysis for potential investments- Monitoring ongoing investments- Funding monitoring - Liaising with advisors- Regulatory compliance- Preparing Trustee Board reports- Actuarial calculations- VBA coding in Excel

Assisting teaching activities for subjects including Forensic Science, Cosmetic Chemistry, DNA Gel Electrophoresis and GCSE/A-Level Chemistry, Maths, Physics, Robotics and Business.

Leading and teaching activities including Forensic Science, Cosmetic Chemistry, DNA Gel Electrophoresis and GCSE/A-Level Chemistry