What I offer
Value Creation, Innovation and Entrepreneurial Leadership
I incubate, scale and transform businesses as an operator and operating advisor for investor-backed businesses, following an experienced-based approach with an international track record. This approach to value creation was published by Wiley in 2022 and is also available as a training programme.
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Artificial intelligence in decision making
Advances in AI with its big-data and ML techniques combined with high computational power and complexity science have fundamentally improved decision making in today’s complex business environment. I focus on use cases for strategic analysis, risk intelligence and predictive analytics.
Artificial intelligence and SaaS in process enhancement and automation
We are at the beginning of a 20-year global adoption cycle for AI that will revolutionise operational and decision processes. I am working on the integration of industry insights, advisory, investments and AI engineering across a series of use cases and commercial propositions.
Technology-enabled business services in an open architecture
Innovative technologies allow the efficient build-up of specialised commercial and operating platforms. I have been working specifically on the build-up of a technology-enabled private-capital platform with embedded services effectively for small- and mid-size enterprises.
Experiences
Founder & Managing Director at Evolve Enterprise Solutions (EES) LTD
EES is an independent platform for entrepreneurial and special situations. It was founded as an umbrella company to originate and deliver managerial and advisory mandates in operational PE and VC. Most of my mandates as executive, enterpreneur and operating advisor are sourced through EES.
Chief Operating Officer (COO) and President at Cosaic/interop.io
C-level executive at Cosaic, with firm-wide responsibilities for scaling product growth and improving operational excellence for ChartIQ, the data visualisation library while leading as President Finsemble, the interoperability arm. Successful exit of ChartIQ, and spin-out and merger of Finsemble.
Founding Partner & Member of the Board at impactvise
Led the incubation of the AI-enabled impact advisory platform that provides analytics and advisory for ESG/sustainability with focus on the legal industry as part of the broader supply chain. the company entered a strategic alliance with Justice Bid, the US legal sourcing platform, in Aug 2023.
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Nectar Financial
Led as CEO the turnaround of the financial technology firm. It included the arrangement of bridge financing, the closedown of its subscale IP business; the exit of its digital marketplace for alternative investments, Fundbase and the spin-out of its AI technologies.
Principal and Director at PwC Strategy&
Deal Value Architect (DVA) and Strategist across Operational Restructuring and M&A, leading the financial-institution transformation proposition originally at Booz & Company and post-merger on PwC’s Deals & Value Creation platform.
Executive Director at Goldman Sachs
Solution banker and strategic derivatives sales with focus on asset-liability management and restructuring; team leader in the institutional solution business who successfully built alternative investment business for the Securities Division.
Associate Director at StepStone Group
Strategist and structurer for alternative investments, securitised products and risk solutions with instrumental role in achieving strong growth through an increase in Assets under Management from $200mn to $2bn.
