London Area, United Kingdom
An accomplished and well-travelled Global Chief Product and Technology Officer who has a proven track record of designing and delivering large, complex enterprise projects which have delivered significant commercial benefits. Passionate about the use of technology within today’s competitive landscape, helping business leaders to plan and execute against their strategic growth plans. Heads up digital transformations, drives projects/programmes incorporating Generative AI, LLM, Cloud, and Digital, embeds Enterprise Lean Agile and promotes the unification of platforms/systems to mitigate risks and realise major business benefits. Consummate and people-oriented leader, who outlines technology roadmaps and strategies aligned with corporate goals, and supports expansion through organic and acquisitive growth. Confident creating global teams and solving problem which require follow the sun scalability and reliability Specialities: - Software delivery at scale - Strategic Development & Direction Setting - Business Transformation & Cultural Change - Cutting-Edge Technologies - Setting up global technology capabilities - Programme Portfolio Management - New Innovations & Next Generation Architectures - Cloud, Generative AI, LLM, SaaS - Large Scale Programme Delivery with annual budgets of $100m+
Finova are using AI to change the way in which mortgages and savings work. We're creating Agentic first products with highly skilled engineers and dedicated LLM based workflows. AI is bringing about a whole new product lifecycle to businesses and we are embracing this and creating value every day
As CTO I lead a team of over 400 people across UK, EU, North America and Australia creating intelligent platforms that support millions of end users and real time decision making Helped secure the $100m raise and landed a major global energy supplier in AGL Delivering complex global platforms for Energy retailers who are taking advantage of the transition to renewables and demand flexibility At Kaluza we are creating highly distributed, AI driven systems to allow our clients to provide a better service to their customers and make faster and better decisions than their competitors
Managing Product, Delivery and Technology to create the next generation of fintech products and tools for the UKs largest wealth manager. As a team we focus on rapid delivery. We design and implement omni-channel solutions using data and experimentation to guide our decision making We are creating a diverse team which represents our client base and enables us to keep ahead of our competitors by always putting the client first and providing the highest levels of engagement and service
As part of RELX Group, LexisNexis delivers legal solutions to leading global law firms, with operations across the UK, North America, Asia Pacific and EMEA, member of UK SLT & Global Technology SLT and Head of Programme Office with 9 direct reports based in UK & US, accountable for software product development. Managing an annual global budget in excess of $60m Headed up technology for the UK ISV, UK content Business, global technology divisions, and global search engine innovation. Managed a large scale digital transformation, cloud migration of a mainframe system, introduced dev ops, Lean/Agile, rapid delivery, modern product management techniques, moved from 1 release every 6 months to 90 releases per month. Directs PMO and oversaw the successful delivery of multiple projects involving Big Data, machine learning, cloud and web-delivered systems, including re-platforming of UK systems, the unification of offshore website estate and the set-up of a new UK Technology Operations - consolidating multiple teams into one technology hub
A Member of senior executive leadership team, initially responsible for delivery of a new workflow product to market, then after a year took on product development with a team of 15 Product Managers, headed up business transformations to deliver savings and optimise product portfolio. Transformed product development using a holistic approach and implemented Lean and sourced new talent, reduced the product portfolio by re-focusing business onto one core legal product offering, launched an innovative SaaS Cloud-only system, and offered a new fully-hosted cloud solution.