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• IT venture capital consultant with a strong background in technology and business strategy. Analyzed and evaluated investment opportunities, conducted market research, and developed financial models. Proven track.
• Financial modeling and forecasting
• Investment strategy development
• Negotiation and valuation of technology products
• Organization and team management
• Business development and growth strategy

NY, NY, US

Oversaw all IT functions for the E-Retailer and worked with CEO to resign the organization during a high growth period. Revenue jumped 800% in 1 year and employees went from 20 to 150Redesigned workflow for many of the business operational teams allowing greater efficiencies and tracking. Designed and led implementation of Salesforce platform to replace.

US

• Oversaw all IT functions and budgets, directing 100 resources, for this US-based music rights organization that collects for both mechanical and performing rights. Represented Sesac to CISAC.
• Built the largest music rights database in the world running over 1 trillion calculations per month, distributing over $800,000,000 per year.
• Identified efficiency improvements and cost savings, including saving the portfolio $2M and reducing monthly calculation time to 24 hrs. (from 37 days) by moving to cloud-based computing.
• Reduced OPEX by over 60%.
• Led the technology due diligence for the $25MM acquisition of Harry Fox.
• Led the all technology components during Blackstone’s purchase of Sesac in 2017 for $1.3B.

London, UK, GB

• Led IT auditing globally for this FTSE 25 company (with a $3B IT budget and 17,000 employees in 108 countries) that holds Elsevier, Reed Business, Lexis Nexis, Lexis Nexis Risk, and Reed Exhibitions. Reported to the.
• Identified $60MM in annual cost savings opportunities and collaborated with the CIOs to implement efficiencies.
• Convinced the subsidiary CIOs to move from owned data centers to AWS, saving tens of millions of dollars.
• Engaged the corporate security team to close security weaknesses.
• Led the IT component of the Due Diligence exercise in the acquisition of 34 companies

• Top IT executive position, reported to CDO and directed 34 resources, all IT functions, and budgets.
• Changed development group to hybrid onshore/offshore structure reducing development cycles by 50% for same cost
• Stabilized infrastructure eliminating non planned downtime within 60 days by instituting private cloud server environment
• Led training for PMO office to elevate their understanding of Project Process and Reporting by using PMP principles

New York, NY, US

Oversee all aspects of Corporate IT. Including all Financial Applications, Development, Servers, Networks, VOIP, Customer Service and all IT compliance.

New York, NY, US

Rye Brook, New York, US

Oversaw all IT aspects for the company. During my time there I drove down IT spend 40% while increasing many services. Was incremental in the expansion of the company for 24 to 40 locations

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