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Nairobi County, Kenya

Nairobi, Nairobi, KE

ExCo-level Product Leader (hardware, software, and customer proposition) in a leading, high-impact East African scale-up in a phase of super-fast growth. We are now a strong Product team of 25+ people in Kenya and India - including product managers, product designer, programme managers, and Product Operations. Re-built the product process from discovery to.

East Legon - Accra, Greater Accra Region, GH

Mentoring seed-stage start-ups in the fast developing markets of Africa – in cooperation with MEST’s entrepreneurial training programme and incubator. Initially remote and since November 2019 on site in Accra, Ghana.I work mostly with CTOs but also CEOs of three MEST portfolio companies on aspects such as technology architecture, go-to-market approach.

GB

Helped build PwC's first SaaS product incubator - PwC New Ventures. Built and scaled TechOps & Engineering from 0 to ~30 staff - covering strategy and execution for DevSecOps, engineering tools, cloud platforms, cyber security, and SupportOps for 10+ independent product teams.PwC New Ventures was established to invest in new business models that leverage.

GB

Built a new IT team from the ground up to work hand in hand with the global Audit/Assurance line of service (BU) in developing and rolling out award-winning data analytics solutions and products to 30,000 auditors worldwide. Working in close partnership with global business and IT leadership to develop an 18-month technology strategy, the associated budget.

Norwalk, CT, US

Built a brand new global team of 15 technologists and operations experts (across US, UK, and Germany) from scratch - responsible for platform strategy, management, and service delivery for GE Capital's global cloud and ‘Platform as a Service’ environment.Key leadership team member of GE Capital’s 'ArchOps' team - chartered to disrupt 'the way we do IT' in.

Norwalk, CT, US

Successfully transitioned the EMEA Technology team into the new global CTO organisation (300+ technologists) for GE Capital (a company with ~50k employees, over 80m customers, operating in 30+ countries and $7.4B net income in 2012) - and reported to the Global Chief Architect with a dotted line to the global CTO. Responsible for the creation of the global.

Norwalk, CT, US

Asked to step up as regional (interim) CTO for GE Capital EMEA during the transition towards a globally consolidated CTO organisation - reporting to the EMEA CIO.Responsible for a corporate team of 12 FTE covering Enterprise & Technical Architecture, Infrastructure Services, and related governance processes for a pan-European financial services business.

Norwalk, CT, US

Promoted to CTO for GE Money Home Lending (GE's UK mortgage business with ~$35bn in assets and 2,000 employees in 2008), reporting to the CIO. Responsible for all IT Infrastructure services, PMO, technology strategy, and architecture (covering servers & storage, data centres, networks, databases, telephony, call center technology, and end user.

Norwalk, CT, US

Stepped into the first people manager role, leading a team of 6 FTE and 30 outsourced resources covering IT Helpdesk, deskside support, and server & storage management - supporting a business of 2,300 users across the UK in two recently acquired businesses that were being integrated.Standardised technology and service offerings, introduced clear SLAs and.

Norwalk, CT, US

As part of a small HQ IT team, I worked for the regional CTO in a varied role focused on both providing strategic guidance and expertise on IT infrastructure technology to 23 business units across 19 European countries and also managing large regional technology projects.Key projects included the complete IT infrastructure design & build for a “greenfield”.

Boston, MA, US

Participant in GE’s IMLP/ITLP graduate programme, completing four 6-month assignments in different lines of business in the UK, France, US, and Ireland. Projects included process re-engineering and digitisation of an IT Change Management process, a cross-functional assignment in Finance focused on automation of financial reporting, and a mainframe network.

Master Of Science (Msc), Software & Systems Security

Executive Mba, General Management

Bsc, Information Systems