What I offer
Operational leadership - COO / CoS
SME / scale-up and / or transformation
Metric and data driven performance improvemement
Building high-performing teams
Transaction Support
Buy-side operational diligence, carve-out and integration planning and execution
Sell-side preparation
Transformation - CTrO
Operating model changes - planning and execution, designing and delivering growth through acquisition, product development or organic country entries. Designing and delivering value through margin, EBITDA and cost-control.
Experiences
Private Equity M&A and value-creation consulting
M&A consulting for private equity @ Alvarez and Marsal
- Ops Diligence
- Carve-outs
- Merger integration
- Value-creation and cost reduction
Start-up COO / CFO
Own business start-up to address the challenges of travel with bulky sports kit
- Built equity model
- Managed finance planning and reporting
- Build customer journeys, operational partnerships and customer service
- Built app and customer experience (with partner)
Interim Operations Leadership
Scale-up of a Fin-Tech's operations to drive positive margin with volume, and development of tech back-end product with bank partners, prior to sale to Visa.
Interim Ops and Strategy Leadership
Built refresh of equity model for infra investors, then working across the operation to bake-in operational improvements from sourcing customers to close finance on a new facility build, to developing corporate opportunities (adjacent private wire offtake), to negotiating procurement improvements.
Post-merger integration
Led the integration of EE into the BT group, with broad team of >20 and >200 indirect reports to deliver £800m of revenue synergy and £400m cost synergy. Reporting responsibility to the group CFO and board sub-committee.
Digital transformation consulting
Helped music and TV clients manage disruption to their models through capture and consumption technology change in the late 2000s to mid 2010s, while at PwC.
Non-exec positions
Served as trustee on a charity board for three years, including posts on the sub-committes for finance and operations and digital transformation