Simon Porter Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

Basingstoke, England, Gb

•Part of the Executive team•Director, Professional Services managing client delivery to 60 clients including Investec, Enstar, Lowcost Holidays, Bridgepoint Capital, B.Braun Medical, Sanden, Peterborough County Council and Chase De Vere. •Built and managed the PS team, including designing the implementation process, resourcing and tracking billable work..•Full lifecycle end-to-end project and programme management of all significant new client projects from inception through to full business readiness•Project managed large scale cloud HR application (based on Salesforce) implementations into Enstar Insurance, B.Braun Medical Low Cost Holidays and Investec. •Ensure all project costs are accurately projected, forecasted, scheduled and managed to annual budget

• COO and Programme manager for building the Liquity platform and the operations around it• Qualified Liquity and attended the prestigious Startupbootcamp accelerator for Fintech start-ups

Implemented a SaaS CRM Marketing Automation tool. A targeted Marketing solution to Premiership football clubs as well as new verticals outside of Sport. Allowing clients in and outside of sport to gain a cleaned, integrated single customer view to allow deep business intelligence and insights to be used to encourage customer retention, cross selling and grow revenues.

New York, Ny, Us

Run and grew the Fixed Income Product global business line. The number of investment Bank clients expanded from 18 to 35 and revenues up from $14M up to $19M. In charge of delivering the portfolio of fixed income projects with the added pressure that a Private Equity Company brings. Managed Teams in London, New York and Hong Kong.The expansion and success of fixed income aided in the attractiveness of Ipreo to the private Equity company KKR who bought the Company in early 2011.

Gb

Established and successfully ran the Product Professional Services division in LON, NY and HK. This included hiring business analysts, project and product managers and outsourcing quality assurance to India and the Ukraine. Introduced programme prioritisation strategy and tactical meetings with the executive team.Enhanced the product development and support methodologies in Fixed Income to aid the sale of the company to a private equity firm.

London, Gb

Implemented CRM and Data Management Services at Aston Villa, Arsenal, Birmingham City, RHT Jockey clubs: Sandown, Epsom and Cheltenham, Harlequins RFU. I worked closely with executive directors at these organisations during CRM tender/selection and implementation.

Zurich, Ch

Successfully Project managed the implementation of Credit Suisse’s Fixed Income book building application

Manchester, Greater Manchester, Gb

Built a team that ensured the delivery and quality of new functionality on the personal finance website, with project teams of 30 people across departments that helped gain 1.2 million registered users.Designed, implemented and managed project and technology development methodologies through out the organisation to ensure products delivered to spec, budget and timescale.Responisble for portfolio of IT projectsAdded the structure to the organisation to enable iii to be ready for an IPO and later a sale.I was the appointed programme manager on the AMP takeover to integrate the 2 personal websites together as well as the business, project and technology teams.

Brentford, Middlesex, Gb

•Project Manager for the implementation, enhancement and maintenance of the research and regulatory database systems and their IT.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

•Team Leader/ international Technical Support Consultant: delivering database training and support to partners across EMEA•Responsible for the Greece and Turkey partners and resellers,

Hatfield, Hertfordshire, Gb

Bsc(Hons), Computer Science

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