Simon Ball

Versatile, innovative, and resourceful | Change management | M&A | Extensive experience leading technology, customer service and business operations teams.

Greater Boston

About

Highly motivated and collaborative business leader with a proven ability to deliver revenue growth, improve efficiency, and drive sustained margin expansion. Accomplished at bringing people together, building consensus across diverse teams, and leading with empathy, integrity, and humility. Extensive experience leading complex change initiatives, including acquisitions, large‑scale platform deployments, technology migrations, and enterprise re‑platforming programs, while maintaining business continuity and delivering measurable outcomes. Consistently at the forefront of adopting disruptive technologies to create competitive advantage. Strong background in M&A strategy and execution, leading buy‑side and sell‑side diligence and delivering transactions that drove significant revenue growth and achieved target returns. Proven program delivery expertise, having led the end‑to‑end replacement of legacy platforms with modern cloud‑based solutions, materially reducing operating costs, improving product quality, and enabling revenue growth. Recognized for building, scaling, and developing high‑performing teams with a strong focus on engagement and retention. Brings deep global leadership experience across Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and the UK, with sensitivity to regional market dynamics and cultural nuance, and a strong customer‑centric philosophy, reducing customer churn while building long standing relationships at the executive level.

Experience

  • Computershare (Boston, Massachusetts, United States · Hybrid)
    • Head of Global meetings
      Mar 2026 - Present · 5 mos

      I lead the global strategy and operating model for shareholder and Investor relations meetings through the entire customer journey. Ensuring seamless execution, compliance, and genuine engagement for investors. I partner with regional Issuer Services leadership plus Product and Technology to shape the roadmap, tighten processes and controls, and turn innovation into real revenue growth.

    • Senior Consultant
      Sep 2025 - Mar 2026 · 7 mos

      Conducted global review of Meetings business. Outlined a growth strategy, defined customer journey, identified regional challenges, built investment case and created multiple workstream plan to execute on the strategy.

  • Personal goal pursuit at Career Break
    Mar 2023 - Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 6 mos

    Project managed major house rennovation - Navigated local authority permits and regulations and managed multiple contractors. Delivered the project on time and on budget. Finance Strategy and operations - Spouse owned Loveday Fashion retail store. Provided business analysis and implemented processes that helped achieve sales and profitability growth.

  • Senior Consultant at Vayle
    Aug 2023 - Jan 2024 · 6 mos

    Led critical business transformation projects for ERP Freedom of Information PaaS for Vayle Inc. Project managed the customer upgrade migration to the Vayle FOI Nexus application, achieving time, cost, and customer satisfaction KPIs.

  • Vice President of Product at Notified (Formally Intrado and West Corporation)
    Sep 2021 - Mar 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos

    Lead the webcasting and streaming products for Notified formally Intrado digital media and West communications. Responsible for setting strategic direction and driving continued innovation across our product portfolio. This included the integration of teams and products from acquisitions; creating and presenting business cases for major initiatives to executives; evaluating build, buy or partner models and vendor management; program management; collaborating across departments and getting stakeholder buy-in. Led the integration of Nasdaq’s webhosting and webcasting/streaming business lines into Notified formally West Communications. Managed the multimedia events technology and platform consolidation program, the migration of customers, and the decommissioning of legacy platforms. The principle due diligence Product owner for the evaluation of the acquisition of INXPO and Hubb

  • Vice President Product Digital Media at Intrado
    Jan 2020 - Sep 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos