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United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Metro Manila

Managing the transition of Union Bank's acquisition of Citibank Philippines assets on the Tech Track of Data Migration & Cut Over for Legal Day 2 (LD2) supported by a team of awesome team from across the world.

London, England, United Kingdom

BrandStak is an Enterprise Operating System specifically designed around the needs of Retail Brand Owners. BrandStak.io deploys user-friendly data science technologies as SaaS, to simplify key decision making for consumer executives, empowering them to unlock value.We make the legacy infrastructure found in many Brand businesses MACH ready - reducing the risk, cost and operational impact of adopting new SaaS, MicroServices and Headless technology. Our vision is to deliver advanced Analytics for retailers to unlock value on asset performance and help deploy leading Composable Commerce tools to enhance revenue and optimize working captitalBrandStak is a data first proposition that unifies and synchronises your data into a proprietary data lake, uses the latest event bus technology to integrate upstream / downstream and provides a clean data source for AI / ML engines to interrogate. Leveraging decades of ERP, data management and AI / ML experience, BrandStak finally delivers the single version of the truth analytics brand owners need to compete in the post Covid era.

Muscat, Oman

Enabling Digital Transformation for Vision Insurance

Venice Area, Italy

1. Formulating & designing the strategy with 3 year business plan for multi-channel, multi-country, multi-language e-commerce platform deployment for Brand MCS, Henry Cottons & Marina Yachting across Full Price Channels, Outlets and Concessions2. Managing & directing Group Social Media and Digital Web Marketing to drive e-commerce & P&L functions for e-commerce & marketplaces for Brand MCS3. Driving high impact strategic initiatives involving leading edge technology, analytics and psychographics based conversion rate optimization and managing complex stakeholder relationships

Venice Area, Italy

1. As CIO and Head of PMO for Emerisque Italia Group & Emerisque Brands (London) in the Fashion/Retail Industry for transforming the IT platforms & infrastructure and creating opportunities for “Shared Services” so that the wholesale business model can be leveraged for a retail business model2. Identified & created the ICT Roadmap & Strategy, Product and Vendor Selection, Process Maps, New ERP needs analysis to implementation, IV&V, Integration Strategy, Business Intelligence & Analytics, IT Infrastructure Build & Stabilization and Change Management3. Evaluating new technologies and formulating IT strategies, functioning as key driver for IT business process design and solution identification4. Implementing project plans within preset budgets & deadlines and holding review meetings to monitor progress of the projects with a view to deliver it on time5. Streamlining operations procedures & advising management to adopt modern techniques, which help the organisation to maintain flawless system

Accra, Ghana

1. Redesigning the IT Architecture of the Bank in line to the Business Strategy as well as Functional Architecture requirements based on the principles of Zachmann Enterprise Architecture Framework as well as TOGAF leading to Multichannel and Multipayment Enterprise Service Bus based architecture2. IT Systems uptime started with 60% in Mar 2012 and reached 99.5% in Sep 20133. Create individual business cases and seek IT Steering Committee as well as Executive Committee approvals for each Transformation Projects. In 24 months, nearly 80 projects were initiated and over 85% rolled out within 2 years4. Introduction of several industry leading business innovations like Agency Banking for Financial Inclusion, Card-less Services for Mobile Money, USSD Mobile Banking, HTML5 Internet Banking, Cash Management and Bill Payment & Presentment Portals and Employee Collaboration solutions like Google Apps, Unified Communications, eLearning, Business Process Management as well as Centralization of all retail processes through workflow5. Vendor Consolidation was introduced to optimize the vendors and their service levels and costs to the company. Over 24 months close to 30% overall savings on Cost of IT6. Enabled through business transformation projects, profitability grew from $ 2.5 M in 2011 to $ 10 M in 2012 and to $ 25 M in 2013

Nigeria

Established the joint venture for Shared Services for Skye Bank and Unity Bank for Central Processing Unit..JV Named as Process Central Ltd..1. Conceptualizing the banking transformation from decentralized operations to centralized operations2.Setting up the company infrastructures, People processes and implementation of business goals3. Setting up of organizational processes, recruitment of resources and creation of a centralized image based processing centre and to foster transfer of capabilities from expats to local Nigerian resources

Ghana

1. Managed a business portfolio of nearly $ 25 M in recurring revenues across Banking, Investment Management & Insurance solutions, 2. Pioneered the formation of a JV with 2 banks in Nigeria for the first Central Processing Centre in Nigeria

United States

Growth Path: A. Jan’98 -Jun’99 Regional Sales Manager – New Markets, EuropeB. Jul’99 -Dec’00 Regional Director – West Coast (Outsourcing), CA, USAC. Jan’01- Jun’02 National Director & Practice Head – CRM, CA, USAD. Jun’02-Jun’04 Vice President & Region Head (West Coast), CA, USAE. Jun’04-Jan’06 VP-Business & Practice Head, USA F. Feb’06-Jul’08 Business & Operations Head - Middle East, Qatar1. From setting up regional offices in Europe to opening new doors for the business and setting up 3 joint ventures in the US – Deloitte Consulting, Careekar Corporation & ePolicy Solutions; leading to over $ 100 M in revenues2. Ran a professional services arm for consulting business & practice lines in CRM and US State & Local Government and growing revenues by 300% with over 130 consultants

B.S (Engg)

Diploma In Mechanical Engineering