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Experience
Bissell Consulting
Start-Up
Owner
3/2014 - Present
I design strategies and build businesses that bring together data analytics and machine learning, mobile financial services and payments, plus smart devices and blockchain infrastructure. Customers have high expectations and call the shots in the digital world, but reward high-quality services with their loyalty. Digital is now adding predictive analytics and AI that builds on the human interactions pioneered over the past two decades in banking, new media content, and mobile telecom.
Axis Corporate
Management Consulting
Global Director of Digital Consulting
1/2017 - 12/2018
• Structured and led firm’s consulting offering in digital, encompassing analytics, mobile and machine learning
• Delivered transformation projects for major global bank in customer channels, IT infrastructure and payments
• Guided and embedded technology requirements adapting European fintech offering for US consumer market; built business opportunity framework and identified blockchain options for communication-infrastructure play
• Delivered transformation projects for major global bank in customer channels, IT infrastructure and payments
• Guided and embedded technology requirements adapting European fintech offering for US consumer market; built business opportunity framework and identified blockchain options for communication-infrastructure play
PA Consulting Group
Management Consulting
Managing Consultant
5/2007 - 2/2014
Advised financial institutions and telecommunications and media service providers on strategies to capitalize on the opportunity from consumers migrating to digital channels. I led initiatives in the industries changing fastest, from mobile payments and NFC in financial services to health monitoring through connected devices and the customer experience in technology-dependent service providers. In addition I supported companies navigating the regulatory landscape that permits this activity.
Bissell Consulting
Start-Up
International Strategy Advisor
4/2001 - 5/2007
Lead the European launch strategy of a North American data-centric, GSM wireless mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). Formulated the launch strategy for a wireless fleet-tracking service in 6 key countries, speeding European rollout.
Supported closure of series B funding round, structured commercial proposition and negotiated with key partners who were mobile network operators and markets data suppliers, creating a service to aggregate real-time mobile financial information services.
Supported closure of series B funding round, structured commercial proposition and negotiated with key partners who were mobile network operators and markets data suppliers, creating a service to aggregate real-time mobile financial information services.
Webraska Mobile Technologies
Start-Up
General Manager Northern Europe
3/2001 - 12/2001
Established North and Central Europe operations, selling location-based software platforms and applications to mobile network operators and MVNOs and transforming the company into a 'carrier-grade' supplier by closing licensing and distribution agreement partnership with Ericsson.
h2g2 Limited
Start-Up
Chief Operating Officer
10/1999 - 1/2001
h2g2 was the 'Earth edition' of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. There, I led all commercial operations including business development, marketing, e-commerce and mobile partnerships. I also spearheaded global public-relations campaigns which resulted in tripling of membership, and negotiated and implemented mobile network operator content agreements and game-software production joint venture covering several countries. The BBC acquired operations in 2001.
British Telecom
Corporate Strategy & Development
Head of Mobility Exchange
10/1996 - 10/1999
Established the mobilityleaders service as an internal joint venture, signing all 14 BT mobile ventures and 7 key equipment suppliers to develop new mobile products and exchange operating experience in more than 15 countries; the service contributed to positive re-valuation of BT mobile portfolio as reflected in BT share price
Bertelsmann AG
Corporate Strategy & Development
Director Strategy and Business Development, Telemedia
1/1992 - 9/1996
Implemented turnaround for struggling business unit, returning to profitability within 12 months and developed business plan for Bertelsmann's entry into entertainment software, generating significant revenues from the first year. In addition, coordinated marketing strategy on company-wide working group which successfully established CD-ROM entertainment software distribution in 40 countries and launched one of European media's first websites.
McKinsey & Company
Management Consulting
Summer Associate
5/1990 - 8/1990
Analyzed potential shifts in customer choice for business telephone services upon the introduction of competition into Spanish telecommunications market.
Booz Allen Hamilton
Management Consulting
Consultant
8/1987 - 5/1989
Designed executive information systems to accommodate advances in information technology, also planned and constructed a $0.5 million computer and high-definition video demonstration facility