Overall responsibility for the creation and execution of the 'Focus' strategy and vision.

From an initial consultancy role in shaping the vision of the new focus:360 product, it quickly became evident that Focus were comitted to the development of probably one of the most existing and important new products in this market place in years. With this in mind, I agreed to come on board in a permanent role to head up the business design, build and launch of the focus:360 product. I have overall responsibility for our technology and focus:360 propositions.

Whilst I continue to to be Managing Director for Focus Solutions Group Ltd which is a wholly owned subsidiary of abrdn, my role has now extended to also be 'Head of Digital Innovation' for abrdn. I own the implementation of our global 'Digital First' strategy going forward with significant synergy between where the Focus capability is heading and the software assets required to reach our goal. Exciting times...

Led the vision, design, development and go to market launch of a unique online car allowance 'duty of care' management system. Growing from nothing to a £3.5M turnover in year 3 running at a profit in each year prior to sale of the business in 2008 to enable its next stage of growth.

I was with the Swift business since its early days as a small private company. I joined as a trainee developer working on the original MSDOS product. In 1993 when the company changed hands I was asked to head up the vision, design and development of a new Windows product Swift IV Windows the first Windows back-office system in the market. This attracted significant interest from a number of major national IFA firms leading up to the sale of the Swift business to Policy Master, then Sirius, now SSP. Under the Sirius ownership I again led the redevelopment of the next generation of the Swift product and worked to drive the business development to the wins at RBS, SJP, CooP Bank, Openwork, Pointon York and many more.These 17 years of development gave me a firm grounding in software design and development, analysis, project management, support, training, marketing, business development and overall management and a deep knowledge of the financial advice market place.