
Authenegade Founder
London, United Kingdom

Authenegade Founder
London, United Kingdom
Management designer, with significant experience in facilitation and “opertionlisation” of strategy. Areas of focus include: multi- national, infrastructure change programmes, process & efficiency improvement and customer experience design. MBA from Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, with focus on international business & integrative management. Balanced financial & non- financial analytics. Succeeds in entrepreneurial environments, where initiative, team success and getting it done all promoted and encouraged. Strong communication and [stakeholder] engagement aptitudes.
• Customer experience improvement
• Dissemination of complex issues to salient issues and decision points
• Design thinking
• Operational and infrastructure (process & technology) improvement
• Programme design & management, change side
• Stakeholder facilitation
• Training & communications
• Personal & team branding
(Public Company; HBC; Banking industry)
March 2009 — Present (10 months)
As part of the oneHSBC global programme to standardise and improve operations (in its various forms), I am responsible for ensuring the delivery and continual improvement of a single set of (universally agreed) numerics across HSBC EU.
Specifically, responsibilities include:
• implement a new operating model for MI and Planning across Europe
• leveraging Centres of Excellence & offshoring
• delivering process Improvement "quick wins", and common definitions
• aligning regional, local and line of business activities (with group)
• significantly reducing volume of manually produced MI
• systems enhancements
(Executive Office industry)
February 2009 — Present (11 months)
The synergy of design, engagement & delivery, via a commitment to authentic customer experience and corporate renegading.
(Partnership; Accounting industry)
January 2008 — December 2008 (1 year )
- Strategic consulting, advise executive management on strategic direction
- Sales strategy development
- Proposal preparation and delivery
- Business case design and scripting
- Target operating model design
- Client relationship management and development
- Programme & project delivery
- Large scale transformation planning and delivery
- Innovation & new business identification and development
- Stakeholder engagement & communications
- [Internal] practice development (e.g. mobile banking, knowledge management, shared service model delivery)
(Public Company; HBC; Banking industry)
January 2007 — December 2007 (1 year )
- Align operating model to global strategy
- Design, implement & manage straight through processing efficiency programme (focusing on New York, London & Hong Kong)
- Build & communicate best practices for project management
- Engage and develop [internal] customers & project stakeholders
- Manage and support project management teams
- Business plan design and approval, including financial projections for a new & revised business services
- Off- shore, shared service model analysis and delivery
(Public Company; HBC; Banking industry)
June 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 8 months)
- Research, design and implement UK balanced score card framework for executive team (inc. customer, employee, operational and finance metrics)
- Assist in customer segmentation strategy analysis & recommendations
- Build employee engagement strategy
- Facilitate senior management strategy planning
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BARC; Banking industry)
May 2004 — August 2004 (4 months)
- Lead project to reduce number of core general insurance products
- Re-design product & sales training
- Analysis of direct-to-market (insurance) competitors
(Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2002 — April 2004 (2 years 1 month)
- Development & implementation of sales strategy
- Management of sales team and sales partners
- Assist in creation of business plan
- Board mangement
- Capital allocation
- Identify and establish strategic alliances
- Development pipeline and set targets
- Assist business clients with their open source strategies
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)
March 2003 — August 2003 (6 months)
- Lead design of blueprint for Canada wide electronic health record
- Manager stakeholders (eg. vendors, doctors, government bodies)
- Direct “request for proposals” from vendors of record
- Logistical supervisor for cross Canada workshops and seminars
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 1999 — April 2002 (2 years 6 months)
- Sales and sales lead generation
- Mentorship of new hires in sales team (6 members)
- Account management and sales delivery
- Promoted to Account Manager in 2001
- Responsible for over $1M in sales profit in first year (100% above target)
- Re-engineered sales processes and training procedures for improved department sales of 75%
- Coached/ instructed cross N. America sales workshops and new technology training
- Received award for Business Development Performer of 2000 and Rookie of the Year (2000)
- Received award for “Outstanding Efforts” in the development of and training for new CRM database
MBA , International Business & Integrative Management , 2003 — 2005
Bachelors , Business Psychology (I/O Psychology) , 1994 — 1998
- Volunteer with Camp Oochigeas for children with cancer (www.ooch.org) - (Past) Executive Member of Daytripper's Children’s Charity (www.daytrippers.org) managing marketing - (Past) Volunteer with Operation Go Home (ww.operationgohome.ca) doing outreach for homeless youth - Travelled extensively throughout Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, Asia & Australasia - Studied in Switzerland (Néuchatel) in 1994 (www.njc.org) -Certified scuba diver, avid rugby fan and adventure traveller, outdoor enthusiast Languages: English, conversational Spanish & French
- Canada UK Chamber of Commerce
- Securities & Investment Institute