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London, England, United Kingdom

Sales lead, strategic delivery lead and SME advisor for end-2-end digital transformation.Across Financial Services, leading Digital across 3 major clients, driving new business development and supporting the PA digital capability to evolve our proposition and take it to marketCover strategy & innovation, through customer experience, architecture, engineering, data and GenAI, to enabling capabilities to deliver successfully; operating model & governance, people & change and agile

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London, United Kingdom

Founded and launched i-Deal Corp, a secure Broking Platform that empowers Investors to access PLC and Private Company offerings worldwide and communicate with them transparently, confidentially and securely- Defined the business strategy, including sales & marketing strategy to raise £500k to build the platform- Identified, defined, designed and took the digital proposition to market, leading the team to develop the platform- Scaled the platform to over 5000 users and over 100 placings, with a combined total value of over $1b- Sold for £10m

London, United Kingdom

Led the UK & Ireland for Backbase, and omni-channel banking platform that enables digital transformation for Financial InstitutionsResponsibilities:• Lead - Overall commercial & operational responsibility, and customer success, for UK & Ireland.• Deliver - Developed and delivered digital propositions to 14 key Financial Services clients across digital sales and servicing (including savings, mortgages, credit & lending and accounts).• Grow - Work with colleagues and clients to identify new opportunities; define, plan and execute on new strategies.- Grew revenue from £2m p.a. to £20m p.a. (delivering £100m in new revenue in total) - Achieved 50% margin and 85% billability - Scaled UK operations from 5 to 100 employees- Led 20 programmes and 60 digital banking propositions/re-platforms/builds- Redefined Backbase’s global professional services value proposition- Re-designed the global customer success engagement model- Identified and onboarded 4 near-shore partners for UK&I operationsClients include AIB, Aldermore, Assurant, C. Hoare & Co., Credit Suisse, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, First Data, Hiscox, HSBC, Legal & General, Lloyds Banking Group, Metro Bank, National Savings & Investment, Natwest Group, and Virgin Money.

London

An industry leading mobile innovation agency helping clients to define, deliver and manage cutting edge mobile propositions- Won, managed and grew a number of strategic accounts including RBS Group, Santander, Eurasian Bank, Formula E, First Rate Exchange Services (Post Office), and FNZ- Grew RBS account revenue from £250k to £3m p.a. in 12 months- Supported the positioning of Grapple Mobile for its sale to Monitise Group for £42m- Defined, delivered and managed the new business strategy, including the development and delivery of all services on each account- Worked with a core team for R&D to help define new solutions for clients and supporting clients to refine those solutions - Led delivery teams including those responsible for designing solutions, development and testing- Led a business development team of three to drive new business and oversaw delivery- Overall responsibility and accountability for marketing and PR; includes blogs, white papers, case studies, and the distribution of content

London, United Kingdom

Thebes Group is one of the UK's fastest growing providers of business consulting and IT services to the financial services community. Thebes Group have a proven methodology which will help organisations drive down IT delivery costs, mitigate risk and deliver a smarter and more efficient service. Clients include RBS, Thomson Reuters, Rabobank, Citi, Macquarie, HP, BNP Paribas, Aviva, Standard Bank and many other leading organisations. We have services that address the growing challenges facing the infrastructure and application environments.Responsibilities:• Devise and implement the go-to-market sales strategy for managed services - value proposition, messaging, marketing, sales plan and process, lead generation, and campaign planning and management for new business sales• Account Manage the Thomson Reuters account• Sell managed services and reseller of alfabet’s PlanningIT software to Heads of IT, CIOs and CTOs

Business Development Director, Financial ServicesJul 2011 to Feb 2012:• Generated in excess of £1m from key accounts (30%) and new business (70%) in developed and developing markets from an initial target of £750k.• Identified, defined and developed new vendor categories and strategies • Mentored and supported people development through innovative training techniquesSales ManagerMay 2010 to Jun 2011:• Lead and developed a sales team, managing a £2.8m portfolio • Averaged event sales growth of 50% • Set event sales strategies. Wrote and managed campaign proposals and plans, pipeline management plans, value propositions and training and development plans• Achieved personal revenue generation of £1m per year from key accounts and new businessesSales ExecutiveJul 2006 to May 2010:• Consistently exceeded company targets, achieving £3.25m total revenue• Managed key accounts and focused on developing new accounts• Generated 70% new business for WBR during term• Grew 6 events by more than 40% year on year; 1 event by over 100%• Successfully launched 2 unique events, generating £+100k• Awarded WBR merit for individual business development, 2006 and 2007

Delegate and Sponsorship Sales Executive • Delegate Sales; generated revenue of £450k • Sponsorship Sales; generated revenue of £280k over 4 months

Sales Executive• Sale of advertising space in UK Defence Journals; generated revenue of £270k