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United Kingdom

Building new dynamic partnerships & projects that deliver direct revenue, and providing real-life testbeds to advance the company technology roadmap.Expert participant in national and international forums, panels, and keynote speaking engagements to create recognition and partnerships with companies, cities, and vendors.

London, United Kingdom

• Devise and direct the partnership strategy, harmonizing new commercial and grant-funding approaches, returning higher revenues and creating new partnerships, use and business cases for SME AppyWay’s award-winning.
• TfL FreightLab - https://appyway.com/blog/news/tfl-freightlab/ - Kerbside network management & loading bay reservation & allocation with TfL and freight delivery partners – DPD, UPS, Gnewt & Royal Mail
• Park AV – New business models and data flows between cities, car manufacturers, and data platforms to understand and enable the policy and technical adaptations needed to ensure autonomous vehicles & fleets deliver.

London, England Metropolitan Area

Founder of an intelligent mobility consultancy, advising micro start-ups, scale-ups and SMEs on raising venture funds, routes to market, & public sector grant funding.

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

• Established new commercial and strategic partnerships, shaped multi-national industrial and government projects, products & services, launched TSC spin-outs, and enhanced UK jobs and growth.
• Reviewed trends and segments to analyse potential partner behaviour, buying power, and product acceptance; establishing new commercial and collaborative partnerships as well as revenue opportunities.
• Keynote speaking engagements at national and international events, forums & panels.
• Driving internal product knowledge & development to stimulate and reflect the organisation's strategic goals.

• Evaluated processes, reporting, and organisation structure, and provided strategic alternatives to meet corporate targets, market share, and revenue growth.
• Structured new multi-agency stakeholder forums, such as Govt CCAV, IM-Pact UK, and TTF; providing expertise on change management for each forum’s constituent organisations.
• Delivered the annual refresh of five-year plan corporate plan, yearly delivery plan and quarterly reporting.
• Led development of the market and competitive intelligence analyses for leadership team and business unit decision-making as well as grew the strategy team from 3 to 6.
• Advisor to ‘Immense Simulations’ the first spin-out from the TSC, and the first in the Catapult network.

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

• Led the 20 strong Strategy, Business Development, and Marketing operations while spearheading a time-bound taskforce to improve business efficiency and enhance revenue.

Delivered market positioning and commercial advice to the CEO with detailed reference to government structures and funding mechanisms; directly leading to the establishment of Centre for Connected & Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV - £100M), Innovation in Rail Franchising fund (£150M over five years) and Departure Planning Information project (42:1 ROI on £1m.

London

Authored the initial business case, which ultimately secured £150m in private sector & Government funding to establish the start up of a new technology and innovation centre, the Transport Systems Catapult.

Responsible for defining and then building and leading a planning team of 20 City Operations Managers, and day to day operational team of 600 ensuring the strategic coordination, management and effective delivery of LOCOG and multi-stakeholder operations around the Olympic Park competition and non-competition venues – known as City Operations. Key.

• Key responsibilities/accountabilities:
• Develop and gain multi-agency agreement for Olympic Road Race, Time Trial, Marathon, Race Walk and Paralympic Road Cycling routes.
• Provide a single point of accountability against the £15m Road Events Business Case funding for Road Events and the Last Mile that TfL implemented on behalf of LOCOG
• Create and chair multi-agency Road Events Operational and Safety Planning Group
• Determine and manage financial programme milestones for multi-agency deliverables
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with Local Authorities, Greater London Authority, Government Olympic Executive, Emergency Services agencies and stakeholders on all matters concerned with Road Events

• Develop stakeholder relationship plans for interactions with Government, Greater London Authority, International Olympic Committee and International Paralympic Committee.
• Identified and delivered previously overlooked budgetary savings totalling £7.5m
• Day-to-day relationship management with GLA, GOE and key delivery partners.

• Conceived the opportunity and convinced a traditionally risk averse Exec Team and Board to reverse a 51-year strategic position, to take a ‘solid risk’ by designing the Which? Best Buy scheme and structuring the new.
• Oversaw company reputation management while developing and leading on specific crisis management strategies.
• Lead internal and external stakeholder engagement programmes.

M.Sc, European Environmental Policy & Regulation

Activities and Societies: Captained first team at both football and cricket

Ba Hons, Geography

Activities and Societies: Captained first eleven cricket team and second eleven football team