Sevenoaks, England, United Kingdom
A highly commercial growth and change agent with considerable experience of data and analytics, financial management, fundraising, exits, strategic planning, establishing international operations, acquisitions and restructuring. Extensive knowledge of the global payments, telecoms, technology and digital media markets. Very experienced working with high-growth VC backed businesses as CFO and as an Investment Manager with a venture capital fund.
Following the acquisition of Worldpay by Vantiv, promoted to the role of Chief Data Officer for the global Group.
Led the creation of a focussed and specialized 110 person data team for Worldpay Group, navigating an internal reorganization and subsequent recruitment drive. Tasked with transforming Worldpay's capabilities regarding data and driving increased value from data exploitation. Built a large scale production Enterprise Data Platform utilizing Hadoop, Spark Streaming, Kafka and other Big Data Technologies.
Following acquisition of Envoy by Worldpay I became CFO of Worldpay's eCommerce division. During my 4 years we grew revenue from ~£400m to ~£1bn.
CFO of FSA regulated payments provider. Envoy provides merchants with an off the shelf global network of local bank account and alternative payment services.