Alan Noble

Current

Owner, Managing Director at Venturehaus

Past

Banking practice leader at IBM Business Consulting Services
Senior Executive in Global Corporate & Investment Banking and other areas at Citibank

Education

University of Oxford
New College

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Connections

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Industry

Financial Services

Websites

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Alan Noble’s Summary

Alan is Co-Founder and a Managing Director of Venturehaus. He has 29 years’ experience of business development and transformation in financial services. He has a track record of restructuring, developing and managing financial businesses, in onshore and offshore markets, in banking and finance, investment management and third-party administration. He has worked in the UK, US, Continental European, South African and HK/Singapore environments and is bilingual in German, fluent in French and currently learning Spanish.

Over the last 7+ years at Venturehaus he has advised and assisted senior executives in major wholesale and retail financial institutions at a strategic level in deploying business improvement initiatives to achieve operational excellence, He has also trained and coached over 800 senior managers in executing these strategies and in leading successful major change programmes in their businesses.

Prior to founding Venturehaus in 2002, Alan led the creation of a business consulting practice for IBM, specialising in business strategy, business transformation, and organisational change in the financial services industry.

Before this, Alan spent 22 years with Citibank. During this long career Alan held executive management positions in customer and business strategy; country, subsidiary and branch management; corporate and institutional client relationship management; transaction banking product management and sales; middle and back-office administration; and treasury, banking and investment operations.

Alan Noble’s Specialties:

Business development, transformation, restructuring, improvement and management of financial service businesses; implementation of Operational Excellence initiatives to address the management of service, cost and risk; Lean and Six Sigma business process improvement deployment and training

Alan Noble’s Experience

Owner, Managing Director

Venturehaus

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Management Consulting industry)

January 2002 — Present (7 years 7 months)

Venturehaus is a specialist Management Consultancy Firm, which assists Financial Services organisations in achieving Operational Excellence throughout their businesses.
Venturehaus brings its own considerable experience in the direct management of financial businesses and its specialist expertise across the industry to increase the effectiveness of Operational Excellence initiatives. Its unique approach and financial services specific methodology have proven to be extremely successful in delivering Operational Excellence in all Financial Services environments.
Banking practice leader

IBM Business Consulting Services

(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2001 — July 2003 (2 years 4 months)

Led the creation of a business consulting practice, specialising in business strategy, business transformation, and organisational change in the financial services industry (retail and wholesale banking, investment banking, and asset management).
Senior Executive in Global Corporate & Investment Banking and other areas

Citibank

(Public Company; C; Banking industry)

October 1979 — March 2001 (21 years 6 months)

Held executive management positions in customer and business strategy; country, subsidiary and branch management; corporate and institutional client relationship management; transaction banking product management and sales; middle and back-office administration; and treasury, banking and investment operations.
A track record of restructuring, developing and managing services businesses, in onshore and offshore markets, in financial and banking services, investment management and third-party administration.
Worked in the UK (onshore and offshore), US and Continental Europe.