Mike O'Hara

Current

• Owner & CEO at Voices in Business, Ltd
• Owner at Mikoh Ltd

Past

• Sales Director, UK/EMEA at Alysis Techologies/Pitney Bowes
• Managing Director at IRIS Investment Support Systems
• Various Positions at SunGard Data Systems

• Specialist Product Sales at Reuters

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Industry

Media Production

Websites

• Voices in Business
• The Cold Calling Podcast

Mike O'Hara’s Summary

Sales professional & specialist in generating new business opportunities.

Business podcasting expert, producer of the following shows:

- Progressing Financial Markets (www.progressingfinancialmarkets.com)
- The Algorithmic Trading Podcast (www.algotradingpodcast.com)
- The B2B Marketing Podcast (www.b2bmarketingpodcast.com)
- The Cold Calling Podcast (www.coldcallingpodcast.com)
- The Complex Event Podcast (www.complexeventpodcast.com)
- The Green Computing Podcast (www.greencomputingpodcast.com)
- The MiFID Podcast (www.mifidpodcast.com)
- The Payments Podcast (www.paymentspodcast.com)
- The Virtual Worlds BusinessCast (www.virtualworldsbusinesscast.com)

Mike O'Hara’s Specialties:

Helping firms to establish thought leadership in their industries through creative use of business podcasts.

Running high-level lead generation campaigns to help firms grow their sales pipeline.

Training senior salespeople in how to more effectively cold call for new business.

Mike O'Hara’s Experience

• Owner & CEO

  Voices in Business, Ltd

  (Media Production industry)

  November 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)

  Co-Founder, Owner and CEO of Voices in Business Ltd, a Digital Media Company that positions its clients as thought leaders in niche business areas, through the use of unique, content-rich audio and video programmes.
  
  Clients include IBM, Sun Microsystems, Intel, Oracle/BEA Systems and Sybase.
  
  For further information, visit www.voicesinbusiness.com

• Owner

  Mikoh Ltd

  (Financial Services industry)

  February 2002 — Present (7 years 10 months)

  Owner of MIKOH Ltd (Market Intelligence, Knowledge, Opportunity Hunting), a consultancy firm specialising in generating new business opportunities for technology firms selling into the Banking and Capital Markets industries.

• Sales Director, UK/EMEA

  Alysis Techologies/Pitney Bowes

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PBI; Computer Software industry)

  February 2000 — February 2002 (2 years 1 month)

  Ran the UK/EMEA Sales Division of Pitney Bowes subsidiary Alysis Technologies, selling e-billing, EBPP, EIPP, Workflow software to large corporates & financial institutions

• Managing Director

  IRIS Investment Support Systems

  (Computer Software industry)

  February 1998 — February 2000 (2 years 1 month)

  Set up and ran the UK office, promoting and selling screen-based trading and decision support software into the Stock, Futures and Options markets.

• Various Positions

  SunGard Data Systems

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  October 1989 — February 1998 (8 years 5 months)

  Managing Director European Operations (1996-1998)
  Director, Asia Pacific Services (1994-1996)
  Sales Manager (1992-1994)
  Customer Services Manager (1990-1992)
  Business Consultant (1989-1990)

• Specialist Product Sales

  Reuters

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; RTR.L; Financial Services industry)

  1987 — 1989 (2 years )

Additional Information

Mike O'Hara’s Websites:

• Voices in Business
• The Cold Calling Podcast

Mike O'Hara’s Groups:

•    Social Media Mafia
•    Trading Systems - Murex Calypso Summit Sophis Openlink Front Arena Fidessa and Orc (2000+ Members)
•    MPI Europe Financial Sector Bulletin
•    B2B Marketing
•    B2B Lead Generation Roundtable
•    v-Business

Mike O'Hara’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• new ventures
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch