Robert Millar

Current

Director of Strategy at CVL

Past

Consultant at 2 Entertain Ltd (BBC & Woolworths JV)
Freelance Consultant at Own Business
Senior Associate in Strategic Transformation at marchFIRST

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Education

University of Manchester - Manchester Business School
University of Chicago - Graduate School of Business
The University of Kent

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Industry

Management Consulting

Robert Millar’s Summary

I manage the commercial arm of a niche retail and media focused consultancy based in central London. My clients include BBC, Channel 4, Harper Collins, Pipex Wireless, Woolworth's Group, emap, Metro Publications International, QVC, CME and BT.

Recent projects I have managed / delivered include:
- Development of Retail proposition for BBC / ITV Freesat JV
- Overall mgmt of product development team for wimax provider
- Input into C4 / emap music TV JV
- Creation of next generation VOD solution
- Due diligence on major Eastern European portal
- Creation of a global online platform for major publishing house
- Change management for C4's Video on Demand (VOD) service
- MNVO strategy development for a major high-street retailer
- PM of SAP implementation for a BBC / Woolworths JV
- Due diligence on several projects (inc BT’s acq. of dabs.com)
- Dvlpt of customer experience strategy for BT Openreach
- A review of the QVC multi-channel strategy
- Creation of a Royalties strategy for UK video distributor
- Development of business model for B2B market place
- Mgmt of numerous RFI / RFP processes for a variety of clients
- Process mapping for numerous clients
- Successful raising of debt funding for digital advertising start-up
- Creation of marketing strategy for print-on-demand publisher

The key skill sets I can offer include:

- Business development / Account mgmt (presently £2M p.a)
- Strategy development
- Change Management
- Business Analysis
- M&A
- Due Diligence
- An entrepreneurial focus

Robert Millar’s Specialties:

Strategy, business analysis, project management, corporate governance, due diligence, business plan development, marketing, change management, business development, recruitment, M&A, Mergers and Acquisitions, Video on Demand, VOD, MVNO, mobile, entrepreneurial