Barnaby Piggott, CFA

Past

• Senior Consultant at 4vco Limited
• Consultant at AnalytX, Inc.
• Consultant at HMG Ltd.

• Systems Analyst at Dalehead Ltd.

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Education

• Aston University
• St. Ivo School
• St. Ivo School

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Connections

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Industry

Venture Capital & Private Equity

Barnaby Piggott, CFA’s Summary

Highly accomplished Project Programme Manager and Business/Financial Analyst, with significant experience gained in the private equity sector.

Ability to draw on deep knowledge of alternative assets, coupled with strong business, financial and systems analysis skills, backed-up by a CFA Charter and Prince2 accreditation.

This unique combination of skills and experience enables private equity firms, hedge fund managers and fund of fund managers to continually update their operations and maintain significant competitive edge in the market.



Business & Financial Analysis:
• Experienced and skilled in carrying out the complex business and financial analysis required to understand a private equity firm’s present systems and operations.
• Strategic planning of business process improvements and the most suitable technology to achieve it which meets all requirements possible within time and budget constraints.

Consultancy:
• A wealth of experience in providing strategic advice to the senior management of private equity firms, internal project teams and third-party suppliers.

Project Programme Management:
• Business change achieved through managing expectations, producing timelines, milestones and regular reports to keep clients fully informed every step of the way.
• Core competencies in risk management, issue management, and handling of project variations and cost variation. Ensuring delivery of projects on time and within budget constraints.
• Helping client operational staff fully understand the scope of the project, and then working with them to successfully implement and manage the new systems and technology.

Internal & External Client Management:
• Presenting to senior management, explaining complex technical projects in non-technical terms.
• Working with client and 3rd-party stakeholders to keep projects on track by being always available and supportive along the way, whilst providing the strong leadership required.

Barnaby Piggott, CFA’s Specialties:

Consulting and delivering for alternative asset managers:
► Business Transformation
► Change Management Projects and Programmes
► Risk Analysis, Mitigation and Management
► Enhanced Investment Monitoring and Performance Reporting

Barnaby Piggott, CFA’s Experience

• Senior Consultant

  4vco Limited

  (Partnership; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  May 2003 — August 2009 (6 years 4 months)

  Significant client projects completed over the last three years include:
  
  Project Manager – $8bn Global private equity secondaries fund – London (14 months)
  • Initially brought in to manage data migration, took the initiative to restructure the programme of work and provide interim programme management for five months.
  • Conducted a full strategic review and requirements analysis for the data migration project.
  • Responsible for the migration of both static and transactional data from several sources systems (including Investran) into a new proprietary system.
  • Managed the analysis, design and delivery of UK and US Tax-specific functionality.
  
  Project Manager / Implementation Consultant – $2.6bn European buyout fund – London
  • Six month project, managing an internal project team in conjunction with Frameworks.
  • Delivered the historical data migration and business process implementation for fund accounting, fund administration, portfolio management and performance monitoring.
  Career Highlights (cont.)
  
  Consultant – Eastern European development bank – London (2 years)
  • Detailed requirements analysis for the Fund of Funds investment team (AUM $2.7bn).
  • Re-engineered an Excel-based solution to manage over 100 fund investments, providing complex portfolio management and performance monitoring tools.
  • Represented the investment management team on a multi-million pound change management programme to deliver a Frameworks implementation, SAP R/3 integration and support a risk management project.
  • 6 month sub-project to build a quantitative model, forecasting the portfolio’s current and future investment cash flows, based on Dean Takahashi’s Yale Model. The deliverables from this project enabled senior bankers to better evaluate funds prior to investment. In addition, the model was used to improve the risk management (particularly liquidity risk) and portfolio management business functions.

• Consultant

  AnalytX, Inc.

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  May 2001 — May 2003 (2 years 1 month)

  • Provided the project management skills required to deliver web based and client server solutions. Through effective change management, integrated these systems into complex corporate financial environments.
  • Full responsibility for client implementations including the use of data migration tools.
  • Represented European and Asian markets on the company’s Product Technical Steering Committee. Responsible for effective and successful global deployment of products.
  • Developed processes and procedures to increase global efficiency.

• Consultant

  HMG Ltd.

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 1998 — May 2001 (2 years 11 months)

  • Delivered large number of webcasting projects for Corporate Television Networks (CTN).
  • Provided high level expertise in Cisco and Microsoft technologies.
  • Consulted on projects for ISPs and streaming media companies including Globix, Completel and Globalnet Financial.

• Systems Analyst

  Dalehead Ltd.

  (Food Production industry)

  July 1997 — July 1998 (1 year 1 month)

  • Provided systems support across five sites nationally and 300 users.
  • Project managed all technical aspects of a new £6m factory.

Barnaby Piggott, CFA’s Education

• Aston University

  BSc. (Hons.) , Information Technology for Business , October 1994 — July 1997

  Activities and Societies:

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• St. Ivo School

  A-levels , Maths, Physics, Chemistry , September 1992 — July 1994

• St. Ivo School

  GCSEs , Maths, Science (2), English (2), French, Geography, Music, Economics , September 1987 — July 1992

Additional Information

Barnaby Piggott, CFA’s Groups:

• Regular Member, CFA Institute (and CFA Society of the UK)
• Chartered Member of the British Computer Society (BCS)

Barnaby Piggott, CFA’s Honors:

• CFA Institute's CIPM (Principles & Expert) - 2007
• CFA Levels I-III - 2005-08
• Investment Management Certificate - 2003
• APMG's Prince2 Practitioner - 2009
• Cisco's CCNA & CCDA - 2000-01
• Microsoft's MCSE - 1998-99

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