Mar 2019 – Present · 7 yrs · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

• dunnhumby is a global leader in retail Customer Data Science and media with revenues of over £500 million and 3500+ employees in 30+ countries. As chair of the board, I work with the CEO, board members and dunnhumby executive leadership to help steer the company through its next stage of growth.

Mar 2019 – Sep 2019 · 6 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm, trusted advisor to the world's leading businesses. I work as a senior advisor to the sales and marketing and analytics practices at McKInsey.

Dec 2018 – Mar 2025 · 6 yrs 3 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

• Part of the Grosvenor Group, one of the world's largest privately-owned property companies, active in over 60 countries, Grosvenor Europe manages £2.4bn of assets including the Grosvenor Liverpool Fund which owns and manages Liverpool One. Liverpool One consists of 2.3 Million sq ft of leading international retailers, cafes, restaurants and leisure facilities In addition the Liverpool One Foundation has helped the lives of 380,000 people as part of Grosvenor's commitment to deliver social benefit in the urban communities we serve. My role is to bring expertise to the board in digital transformation, strategy, innovation and business development as the retail landscape continues to be disrupted to underpin the next phase of growth following a very successful first decade for Liverpool One. Liverpool One fund was sold to Landsec in a successful exit by Grosvenor Group in Feb 2025.

Jul 2016 – Oct 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos · Paris, Île-de-France, France

• I joined the board of OneAccess as an NED and industry leader to help the long standing board re-position the company to maximise value and trigger an exit. Working with the chairman, CEO and leadership team I helped steer strategy and market positioning from an on premise equipment company to a software defined networking company. OneAccess completed their successful sale to Ekinops, a public company listed in on the Euronext, Paris, France.

Jan 2016 – Apr 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Tata Communications is a public company listed on the Bombay Exchange, 8,500 employees, 40 nationalities, an average employee age of 34, in 240 countries; $3.1 Billion revenue part of Tata $103.3 Billion group. During my six years as president and executive committee member, the company's market cap increased by 275%.
• Member Tata Group Brand Board - oversight of Tata brand, global top 50 brand #1 brand India valued at $14.2 Billion.
• Tata Communications was formed in 2008 when Tata acquired the telecom assets of the India government and became a #1 global wholesaler. In 2012 the strategy called for an urgent need to break into the higher margin enterprise market.
• I joined Tata Communications in 2012, reporting to the CEO to deliver on this vision and played a key role in the successful transformation of Tata Communications over the next 6 years. By 2018 Tata Communications had been transformed -77% of revenue ex India, 61% of revenue from the Forbes 2000 and services in IoT, cyber security, cloud, mobility and software defined networks. Tata's digital infrastructure platform supports 24% of the world's internet and 80% of the world's cloud services. and is acknowledged by Gartner for global leadership in network services from 2014 onward.
• As the company's first CMO I built a global enterprise brand from scratch. on a limited budget. creating partnership ecosystems with technology and cloud companies and Formula One. The brand in 2018 had a value of $2 Billion.
• I operationalized digital technology across the customer life cycle delivering higher productivity and ROI vs Industry peers developing a 'modern, digital first' function.
• As Chief Innovation Officer I transformed the portfolio investing in IoT & software defined networks - incubating from start up to scale up. A priority was to engage a larger, more diverse employee group in innovation and I doubled engagement levels. I also had a key role working with start ups, academia and corporate venturing.

Oct 2012 – Jan 2016 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• As CEO of Nextgen I built a global business with the top 20 technology companies in the world from $40M revenue to $300M revenue just 3 years later. Nextgen had $2 Billion of contracted business with companies like Facebook, Amazon, Google. Microsoft, Alibaba, Apple. I scaled the team from a few people in silicon valley to a fully integrated business of 150 people in sales, marketing, sales engineers, commercial and customer service operating globally. Key to this success was a bold strategy, hiring talent and building a global collaborative team with innovation and agility at the core. Success in Nextgen resulted in Tata Communication's becoming one of the world's top cloud ecosystems. Nextgen business success enabled the rapid scale up of Tata Communications data centre assets in India and Asia pacific - ultimately resulting in a successful Joint Venture with ST Telemedia in 2016.

Jul 2009 – Sep 2019 · 10 yrs 2 mos

• I work with early-stage, scale-ups and unicorns in a number of sectors, AI, cloud including nano technology, marketing/digital technology and data sciences. Specialise in corporate and market development, strategy, partnerships, deal making, brand, company positioning/value propositions. Senior Advisor Next 15 (Agent 3) April 2018- Sept 2019); Senior Advisor Mu Sigma (June 2018 - Jan 2019)

Jul 2008 – Jul 2009 · 1 yr

• Responsible for all aspects of strategy, marketing, products and services for BT's business customers in 170 countries. The division had a turnover of £8 Billion and I was reponsible for an operating budget of £200M, a capital budget of £450M and a team of 900 people. I led the specialist sales teams and had a direct sales target of £500M and responsibility for the product/services P&L of just under £4Bn. As a member of the BT Global Services executive, I helped grow the business by 3x market rate, growing EBITDA margin faster than revenue. The strategy was based on organic portfolio optimisation and accelerated new product development and inorganic transactions in the US and Asia Pacific.

Jul 2004 – Jul 2008 · 4 yrs

• I joined BT Global Services as Vice President of Marketing International and was quickly promoted to Chief Marketing Officer, responsible for restructuring a large global marketing team across two separate divisions - BT UK and BT International. I resized the team from 700 to 300, built offshore teams in India and Hungary of 150 people and recruited new leadership. Developed a digital and analytics platform that enabled 25% of volume via self service. I managed a marketing budget of £150M delivering better than industry ROI (bench-marked by Accenture Marketing Sciences). Increased brand consideration by 15%, re-positioning BT in the 'Digital Economy' and established sustainable brand platforms around the World Economic Forum/Davos and the X prize.

Jan 2000 – Jan 2004 · 4 yrs · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

• Chello broadband is a 480M Euro company within Liberty Media, part of Europe's largest cable broad band company. Grew consumer broadband customers from 150,000 to 1.3 Million in 4 years. 40% of all sales sourced and fulfilled digitally

Jan 1989 – Jan 2000 · 11 yrs · New York City Metropolitan Area

• Joined IBM as a graduate and became a member of IBM's fast track program with accelerated career opportunities. Lived and worked in London, Paris and New York. Various roles including Emea head of Unix brand, COO of Emerging Markets, Director of Marketing for Small and Medium Business globally, Employee number 3 in IBM's mobility division which quickly grew to a $1 Bn business.