Sean Middleton Email & Phone Number

New Canaan, Ct, Us

New Canaan, Ct, Us

New York, United States

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New York City Metropolitan Area

Helping B2B Services leaders find a path do faster & sustained growth at the intersection of strategy & execution.

New York City Metropolitan Area

Greater New York City Area

Sean led end-to-end operations for this ~$5B Digital Transformation division including Finance, M&A, Operations, Solutions and Marketing, Facilities, and HR. Instilled rigorous, financially driven operating discipline resulting in higher topline growth (2x), reduced overhead costs (-25%), and improved employee morale.

New York, Ny

As Founder and President of this CEO-reporting division, Sean built and ran a portfolio of dozens of businesses ranging from $10M to $750M. These collectively contributed $1.5B+ in profitable annual revenue upon graduation. Among these include starting Cognizant’s digital technology services business and its software products (SaaS) division.Sean was responsible for the full P&L including strategy, sales & marketing, delivery & product engineering, finance, M&A, operations, and human resources.Sean also chaired the enterprise Capital Allocation Committee, which distributed and monitored $500M of annual investment to internal units and led their venture capital program for external investments.Sean was a Cognizant Officer (Section 16) and member of the Executive Committee (top 15).**Prior to 2016, Sean served as COO of Accelerator reporting to the company CEO.

Sean served as Chief of Staff to Frank D'Souza• Built Office of the CEO infrastructure over the three years that Cognizant more than doubled in size to $8.8B from $3.3B. Created scale for CEO by serving as a proxy, “right hand”, and advisor responsible for operations and strategic projects / transformation initiatives.• Monitored business unit/corporate functions performance; identified, investigated, resolved and escalated problems.• Formalized and ran processes around quarterly earnings, Board of Directors’ meetings and executive leadership meetings; primary interface for Board Members. • Led all CEO communications (including ghost/speechwriting) for internal & external stakeholders.

Served as a corporate strategy consultant – include commercial due diligence, market analysis, customer segmentation, pricing strategy, profitability analysis and innovation strategy – for Fortune 1000 companies in Technology, Media and Telecommunications sectors.

• Ran operations for “start-up” business unit, serving executive leader as advisor and proxy. During tenure, unit grew organically 35% year-over-year. Oversaw business performance reviews, budgeting, and investment allocation/reviews.• Directed communications conveying aggressive and differentiated business model against backdrop of conservative audit firm. Authored conference and internal presentations, media and analyst briefings, and internal business updates and newsletters. Published 45+ market-facing pieces in 18 months.

• Led teams to analyze technology problems and their impact on business; architected and delivered solutions to improve performance and manage risk. Worked primarily in banking & financial services; specialized in information security.

Mba, Management

Bs, Computer Science

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