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Sonning Common, Gb

London, England, Gb

The Conexus Group has a portfolio of world-class businesses specialising in the provision of Consulting, M&A Advisory, Training and Recruitment services, within the PayTech, Fintech and iGaming industries. We are totally focused on enabling growth and supporting our clients with new market entry. Our M&A Advisory practice has a London based FCA license and we successfully closed over €1Bn of transactions in 2022. In June 2023 The Conexus Group formed a strong alliance with Paymentgenes brining an increased focus and European footprint to PayTech and FinTech Strategic Consulting, M&A Advisory and Recruitment services.

Southampton, England, Gb

Board advisor for commercial planning and strategic partnerships..

Woking, London, Gb

Greenings brings transformational leaders to the Payments & FinTech sectors, leveraging 20 years of trusted personal networks that extend around the globe. With a reputation for building close partnership with clients, we deliver complex international searches, designing and executing multi-country recruitment campaigns, bringing a fresh perspective and creativity to client engagements.

Coral Gables, Florida, Us

Building and leading a new high performing Europe wide sales team to win New Logo’s for ACI, targeting the Bank and Financial Institution and Intermediary ‘white space’. Leveraging the best internal perspectives and engaging with third parties to define the ‘true addressable’ opportunity and map the go to market strategy.

High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Gb

Reporting into the Board and Investors, responsible for leading a transformation of Miura’s global commercial operations, restructuring the sales organisation, re purposing the ‘marketing’ and ‘sales operations’ functions to better address opportunities and balance the income to expense ratio across EMEA, APAC, and the US. I brought a strategy and focus maximising ROI from both Muira’s direct client base (with customers such as PayPal, iZettle, Rakuten, Stripe and Mastercard) as well an increasing indirect distribution (Westcoast, CDE, Exertis). Dramatically increasing the adoption of the CRM (SFDC) to increase data quality, introducing new reporting data sets to increase the visibility and understanding of pipeline and forecasts to better support the ‘go forward’ strategy.

Foster City, California, Us

Responsibility for managing a complex matrix environment (cross function and region) to ensure connectivity, collaboration, and consistency with our global market development planning, pipeline prioritisation and growth, client development, and overall global revenue plan achievement. Instilling a culture of challenge, accountability, and due diligence when working with Visa Merchant Sales & Solutions region heads and Cybersource Regional Sales Directors, product management and development. Responsibility for evolving CyberSource’s Global Services operation (170 staff across US, EMEA, APAC, LATAM). Led a reorganisation of the Global Services product portfolio and organisation design.Fiduciary responsibility for Visa Inc assets in Europe. Senior lead for CYBS relationship with Visa Europe.

Foster City, Ca, Us

Responsible for CyberSource EMEA and APAC Sales and Business Operations, with regional hubs in Reading, Dubai, Singapore and Tokyo. Growth of CyberSource was accelerated post the Visa Inc. acquisition in 2010. I had P&L responsibility for the sales and business operations, responsibility for the go to market strategy and product development requirements by region. The EMEA business had two distinct regions, CEMEA with offices based in Moscow, Dubai, Johannesburg, and Europe with offices based in Reading, Paris, and Madrid. APAC offices are located in Singapore (HQ), Shanghai, Hong Kong, Sydney, Mumbai and Seoul.Europe – 100 employees $45m income growing at 28%CEMEA – 15 employees $5m income growing at 55%APAC – 55 employees $15m income growing at 87%Achieved significant income growth with the travel sector with clients such as Trainline.com, British Airways, Amadeus, and the retail sector with clients such as ITX, H&M, Apple. This growth is driven by merchant global expansion, need for improved fraud detection and data security services, and solid business intelligence.I personally championed a global ‘sales first’ culture, building a strong sales DNA where accountability, behaviour, and exceeding KPI’s were the foundation. I launched Miller Heiman sales methodology in EMEA and APAC, which was ultimately adopted globally.Visa Inc. acquired CyberSource Q3 2010, I led the integration and transformation of CyberSource EMEA and APAC.

Foster City, Ca, Us

Managing the sales (and supporting the marketing operations) with responsibility for delivering the income line of the business for UK and mainland Europe, reporting into the UK Managing Director and SVP of Global Sales (US based).Key Achievements:• Restructured the sales team to bring a more balanced focus on retaining key merchants, driving new business sales, re-focus and purpose for Partner division, and exploratory sales into APAC and mainland Europe.• Grew revenues from £2.5m in 2005 to £5.2m in 2007 .• Introduced more focused marketing activities to support sales objectives (increase lead generation, raise brand awareness, position CyberSource as thought leader).• Created a Channel Partner business – Key relationships with HSBC, Lloyds Cardnet and Elavon, as well as a number of technology and e-commerce partners.• Awarded International Employee of the Year 2006.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

The Enterprise Business team was created to bring a ‘solutions’ sales focus to Dell’s largest global and international accounts. My responsibility was to work alongside the account management teams in Europe and the US to bring an additional level of Sales and operations experience, and Datacentre solutions product knowledge to Dell’s largest Corporate and Global accounts such as Vodafone, Royal Bank of Scotland, Orange, GSK, Ford, and TESCO. Responsibilities:•Driving growth of Datacentre solutions via Dell Global Account sales teams.•Managing targeted marketing campaigns for acquisition prospects.•Leading the ‘Virtual’ Dell team to successfully deliver Enterprise wide solutions.•Owning the P&L of significant opportunities.•Managing the pipeline of opportunities and tender documents.

Non-Executive Director Program, Board Director

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