Starkhorn

Directing large-scale PE backed IT integration projects across multiple countries, standardising operations, streamlining processes, and managing complex IT infrastructures to achieve significant cost savings and efficiency gains.

Collaborated with C-suite executives on IT due diligence, post-merger integration, and the creation of scalable operating models, delivering measurable synergies and enhanced portfolio value.

Developed and executed bespoke IT strategies for private equity clients, ensuring alignment with business goals, operational scalability, and long-term growth through innovative technology solutions.

Offering consultancy, fractional support, and expertise in M&A, Divestments, Outsourcing and Private Equity.

Founder

Age UK

Non Executive IT Director - Digital and Technology

Jardine Motors Group trading as Lancaster

Spearheaded IT due diligence for a £300m transaction, enabling the seamless sale of Jardine Motors to Lithia & Driveway.

Supported the £400m acquisition of Pendragon PLC, integrating IT systems to establish Lithia UK, driving operational synergies.

Achieved £1m+ annual savings by centralising telephony systems, enhancing customer service.

Designed and executed a cybersecurity framework, achieving a NIST CSF maturity score of 29.

Chief Information Officer

Mothercare

As Head of IT Service Delivery & Infrastructure, I led seamless IT service delivery across 150 UK stores, franchises, head office, e-commerce, and warehouses. Aligning IT with business objectives, I enhanced efficiency and drove innovation.

Head of IT Service Delivery & Infrastructure

IT Service Delivery Manager

IT Technical Services Manager

IT Technical Support Manager

VisitBritain

Technical Support/Infrastructure Analyst

2nd Line Engineer at VisitBritain

Fractional CIO | IT Strategy for High-Stakes M&A | Faster M&A, Smoother Exits | De-risking IT & unlocking value | Author

If IT isn’t creating enterprise value, it’s destroying it. Most firms still treat IT as a cost centre. Growth-focused companies can’t afford that mistake. I help CEOs, CFOs, boards, and investors turn IT into a value-creation engine — accelerating deals, de-risking operations, and boosting EBITDA.

Proven Results

✓ £1.6m in savings within 18 months across 10+ countries
✓ Seamless IT integrations in £300m+ and £400m+ transactions
✓ 40% fewer outages across 150+ retail locations
✓ Cybersecurity resilience with NIST maturity scores above industry benchmarks

Why Clients Choose Me

✓ Fractional CIO flexibility — strategic leadership without full-time overhead
✓ Interim CIO firepower — execution in high-stakes transformations
✓ Board-level insight — translating IT complexity into clear business impact

Whether you’re scaling a mid-sized firm or leading a multi-country enterprise, IT should fuel growth, protect assets, and support scale. If it isn’t, it’s silently eroding value.

I am currently accepting 2 more clients in 2025 (Fractional, Interim, or Advisory).
DM me or book a call to explore how IT can become your competitive edge.

Daniel J. Jacobs

Voxpay

Senior Manager, Business Development & CX Partnerships

Business Development & Telecom Partnerships Manager

With Voxpay, your customers no longer need to communicate their CB number verbally over the phone. Our solution integrates naturally and without channel break during an exchange between a contact and an agent, while preserving the confidentiality of bank details in a PCI-DSS certified environment. The agent does not see or hear sensitive payment data. Time saving, immediate conversion and easy to use: Voxpay accepts all CB, Visa, MasterCard, Amex cards.

Business Development Manager

Art Explora

☀️ Art Explora is a non-profit organisation with the international ambition to make art accessible to everyone. In partnership with the French Fine Arts Academy, and placed under the patronage of the French Ministry of Culture, Art Explora is launching a European award to promote sharing art and culture with one another.

There are already many initiatives which introduce new audiences to the arts and culture. Now, Art Explora wants to give a real boost to these innovative practices.

🔥 Art Explora was created by Frédéric Jousset, a French entrepreneur and a great patron of culture.
After graduating from HEC Paris in 1992 (he currently chairs the HEC Alumni network), he co-founded Webhelp, a 50,000 people-strong global leader in business process outsourcing (BPO).

Fond of art and heritage, Frédéric Jousset is a committed actor in culture, President of Beaux-Arts & Cie (French art newspaper Beaux-Arts Magazine), owner of the Relais de Chambord, he chaired the board of directors of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris from 2011 to 2014. Administrator of the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs and « Grand Patron » of the Louvre Museum since 2016, he has been notably involved with the Museum in organizing conferences in prisons.

😍 The Allô Mirò Project : https://www.facebook.com/explora.art/videos/1026532241086073

💪🏽 The Mobile Museum : https://artexplora.org/en/the-mumo-x-centre-pompidou-museum-truck-produced-with-art-explora/

🥳 Dubaï World Expo : https://artexplora.org/en/art-explora-will-represent-culture-in-the-french-pavilion-at-the-dubai-world-expo/

😱 Art Explora Partners : https://artexplora.org/en/partners/

👉🏽 Become a volunteer : https://artexplora.org/en/get-involved/

Volunteer Staff / Ambassador / Project manager Allô Miró

INSEEC Bachelor

- Teaching 3 courses to the 2nd and 3rd year INSEEC Bachelor students (Webmarketing - E-marketing - Business Development & International Marketing)

Business Development & Digital Marketing Teacher

BBA INSEEC

- Témoignage lors de l'événement des Careers Days de l'INSEEC
- Jury pour les soutenances du Mémoire de Recherche Appliquée (MRA) en finance
- Jury pour l'International Career Project (ICP), oral de fin d'études en anglais
- Jury pour les simulations d'entretiens d'embauche des étudiants en 3ème année à l'issue de leur stage d'été
- Business coach pour les étudiants en 1ère année lors du Défi Créa, exercice de création d'une entreprise fictive

Lecturer / Jury

Emmaüs France

Épargnant solidaire │ Association Tero Loko

Wanted Community

☀️ Wanted est une communauté de coopération sociale. Créée en 2011 par Christian Delachet, Jérémie Ballarin et Luc Jaubert sous la forme d’un groupe Facebook, la communauté compte aujourd’hui plus d’un million de membres, répartis dans 86 villes en France (Paris, Bordeaux, Marseille, etc.). La communauté Wanted permet à ses membres, répartis en groupes Facebook, de s’entraider au quotidien mais aussi d’organiser des actions d’aide aux plus démunis (distribution de repas, hébergement ou même recherche d’emploi). Wanted est devenu incontournable avec 211 millions de Français touchés à travers les médias et 100 000 nouveaux membres chaque année ; elle a même été reconnue par Facebook comme l’une des « 5 communautés les plus impactantes au monde » en 2018.

🚀 Pour conforter son action en faveur de la coopération sociale, Wanted a fait le choix d’animer des espaces physiques : les Wanted Cafés. Le premier a ouvert à Bordeaux, en 2018 : un café-restaurant qui attire 22 000 clients par an. L’objectif du lieu est d’utiliser la restauration comme vecteur de lien social, en permettant aux membres de la communauté et à des personnes démunies de venir y partager un repas.

💪🏽 Wanted souhaite aujourd’hui ouvrir un nouveau Wanted Café à Paris, où la communauté concentre plus de 500 000 membres (1 Francilien sur 24). Le café ouvrira ses portes au début d’année 2022 dans le 10e arrondissement, au croisement de la rue du Faubourg Saint-Martin et de la rue du Château d’Eau. Wanted cherche à cet effet 450 k€ en fonds propres, afin de racheter le fonds de commerce d’un café existant (Bistrot Brune) et de réaménager celui-ci.

❤️ Ce projet prend du sens pour vous? Alors, rejoignez la communauté d'investisseurs solidaires : https://fr.lita.co/fr/projects/767-wanted

Proud Shareholder

Meet My Mama

Meet My Mama révèle les talents culinaires des femmes (Mamas) du monde entier, de tout horizon, de tout âge et de tout milieu social, passionnées par la cuisine et animées par la volonté de transmettre, et de vivre de leur savoir-faire 🤘🏽🔥

🤯 Plus de 2000 clients tels que BNP, Google, LVMH ou CHANEL 

🚀 Livre des recettes des Mamas disponible : https://www.hachette-pratique.com/les-mamas-cuisinent-le-monde-9782017089483

❤️ Devenez vous aussi actionnaires Meet My Mama : https://fr.lita.co/fr/projects/773-meet-my-mama

ONLYLYON

Ambassador

RandomCoffee

RandomCoffee helps companies break down silos by creating targeted connections between coworkers. Our technology enables reach multiple goals: facilitate internal mobility, develop peer-to-peer training, onboard new employees after an M&A, create meaningful meetings during events... etc.

Used in +20 countries by companies such as Deloitte, Danone, Total, SAP, Allianz GI, Schneider Electric, Société Générale, Amgen, Henkel, Eutelsat, BCD Travel.

RandomCoffee is a Facebook Partner & an SAP Partner.

Learn more about the #StartupGarage from Facebook & the SAP Startup Select #HR through the articles below.

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Dream Catcher Sales

Sales Business Development Consultant

I help companies turn their phone conversations into a real sales channel by offering their customers omnichannel secure remote payment solutions.

I also help companies to create more links between employees and break down internal silos. You want to know more, make an appointment here --> https://zcal.co/i/ku87dFL6
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