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CEO and Co-Founder

Cambridge Judge Business School

Guest speaker for MBA and MFin lectures on the importance of Investor Fit in the Venture Capital industry and how technologies currently being developed will make this easier.

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TAINA Technology Limited

-	Produced financial model, collateral and managed prospective VC and institutional investor communications that ensured valuations between 8-10X end of year ARR, leading to term sheets
-	Delivered 60% of new revenues in 2019
-	Won key first clients in the crypto and stock-trading segments
-	Negotiated key customer contracts, ensuring the business could price higher than competitors through a superior offering
-	Established a presence in the USA as part of international expansion (pre-US incorporation)
-	Co-designed and produced a retail customer-facing web and mobile web application to early adopter clients, from a business (non-technical) perspective (B2B2C distribution model)
-	Managed the successful go-live of said app, ensuring customer and compliance needs from application were met by the Technology and Compliance teams
-	Created training manuals and processes for client customer service teams to manage exception handling
-	Solicited and fed customer feedback into roadmap, produced business cases and championed customer needs with high value generating potential
-	Managed, maintained and upsold key client relationships
-	Designed and produced marketing and sales collateral, managed website re-design
-	Responsible for prospect demonstrations in key growth segments
-	Trained new users on the platform, requiring a detailed knowledge of the system and architecture
-	Invited on the Oracle podcast to discuss TAINA, Data & Analytics
-	Represented TAINA at events and in publications, including a DIT event in Frankfurt and in L39 publications.
-	Managed market communications specific to B2B and B2B2C distribution model of the business, ensuring regular feeds of market news.
-	Co-ordinated office move
-	Trained team members in production of collateral, account management and demonstrations 
-	Key decision maker for non-technical business hires
-	Successfully applied to the Morgan Stanley Multi-Cultural Innovation Lab as part of a team

Commercial and Communications Lead

Axis Corporate

Leading European Fintech: 
- Building a business on DLT for international remittances and lending platform. Activities include economic modelling, business analysis, competitor analysis, vendor negotiations, pricing strategy, customer journey mapping and client relationship management.  
- Creating Funding applications; Strategy, Product road map, commercialisation of core technology, financial sector partnership and distribution model strategy.
Leading European Fintech:
- Producing a report on market entry strategy and product alignment. Including TAM, SAM, SOM analysis, assessing likely demand for a groundbreaking financial product.
Other:
- Advising Fintechs and FIs on application to the Alternative Remedies Capability and Innovation Fund

Senior Consultant

Leading UK Bank: 
  - Assisted Branch rationalisation and Bank digitisation Programme
  - Digital tool selection, business case writing, Fintech partnership co-ordination

UK Challenger Banks and Fintechs:
  - RBS Alternative Remedies package Capability and Innovation fund strategic advisory

Head of Fintech partnerships: 
      - Ecosystem integration and evolution (technical and process)
      - Regulated DLT e-money payments and micro-payments projects 
      - Durable Media Proof of Concept
      - Business Case and senior stakeholder buy-in

Consultant

UKIMUN

Games and events company specialising in competitive game-ification around elections and other political scenarios. 
Basic data model creation for US and UK election scenarios.

Co Founder

Public Sector Security Services  – Project Manager and Business Analyst					
Led Software as a Service based project. Including: 
- Led process design for new software development marketplace project
- Management of multiple stakeholders senior to him both inside CSC and from other towers in a SIAM model
- Supported the transition of new joiners to CSC, acting in an ambassador role to multiple new work streams
- Delivered several process analyses, delivering better value to the client

Global Insurer Next-Generation IT Operating Model - Business Analyst				
- Assisted the design of a Digital TOM to enable more rapid product and service development. 
- Ensured digital strategy cohesion; combining the CSC digital vision for a Global Insurer's Operations with the vision of the client. 
- Managed internal stakeholders in an engagement with multiple moving parts.

MiFiD II impact assessment for Global FS Institution 
- Organisational impact analysis
- Recommendations on impacted business areas

Next-Generation IT Operating Model 
- Produced impact analysis for IT TOM for future integration of big data, BI, automation and hybrid cloud capabilities 
- Produced technology maturity matrix for future integrations as part of strategic change roadmap

Achievements:
- Created CSC viewpoint on the new EU-US Data Privacy Shield Agreement (data privacy)
- Co-authored CSC's thought leadership on Next-Generation Digital Target Operating Models
- Impact Analysis of MiFID II regulations on a Global Financial Institution
- Assisting with development of a Future Target Operating Model and future strategy for a global Financial Services firm
- Software Development Marketplace for Public Sector
- PRINCE II Foundation certified

Associate Consultant

thisislanguage.com

- Led business development in the UK market and assisted with US market growth
- Assisted the design of future growth strategy following a successful funding round
- Produced a phased business growth plan based upon demographic hotspots
- Assisted agile product development feedback loop from customer interactions

Account Executive & future strategy planner (Edtech startup)

- KYC reviews of High Risk and Ultra High Risk institutional clients

Senior Associate

CfBT Education Trust

- Business process re-engineering
- Business Analysis
- Proof reading of policies and standards

(Hays Contractor) Data Analyst - Agresso Project

Sovereign Housing Association

- Communications with stakeholders throughout the group
- Housing Market Research & Review for Sovereign Living Operations Manager
- Research project for Board into possible compatibility of Islamic Finance with Social Housing
- Legal Administration of complex Shared-Ownership property sales (6 party conveyancing procedures)
- Internal and external stakeholder management

(Hays Contractor) Conveyancing co-ordinator and Market Researcher

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Daniel Sawko

Kroptek

Kroptek designs, develops and manufactures market-leading LED grow lights, container farms and associated agri-tech systems.

Chairman

Vistage UK

Group Chair

Academy for Chief Executives

A group of CEOs and MDs, meeting monthly to listen to specialist speakers and to discuss and resolve issues in privacy and confidence. Learning from and contributing to your peers, benefiting from great experience and completely independent advice, all well as a monthly one-on-one meeting with the Chairman. The Academy of Chief Executives is a thriving and growing organisation, helping its many CEO, MD and director members throughout the UK.

Murex Energy Limited

Identifying, negotiating, securing, developing, financing and operating small-scale wind and solar PV projects in the UK. Five wind projects already developed and operational, with three more in development. Four ground-mounted solar PV schemes either completed or in development.

Non Executive Director

Acrenergy Limited

Assisting in negotiating and securing agriculturally-based anaerobic digestion (AD) projects. UK projects already in development.

Non-Executive Director

Murex Energy

Director

CLP Envirogas Limited

Managed company development from start-up to eventual sale of a portfolio of over thirty operating renewable energy projects in the UK. Managed relationships with investors, lenders and specialist energy fund. Joint-founder and President of Spanish subsidiary (JV with Spanish partner group); managed development of a renewable energy project portfolio in Spain, including relationships with Spanish partner, Spanish institutions and lenders.

Managing Director

A career founding and leading companies, both in Europe, the UK and Central America, has taught me the importance of tenacity. I now chair an agri-tech company (Kroptek), am a co-founder and director of a renewable energy business, a senior advisor to an investment and development entity and advise several other businesses. I also really enjoy helping businesses and business leaders grow and prosper: over the last five years I have helped over fifty business leaders and their companies move up to the next level. I wish I had benefited from similar help when we were growing our first businesses, so please remember to seek support.

At Vistage we work with a community of successful leaders. Together we learn, share our experience and expertise, solving problems and improving performance.

I became a Vistage Group Chair because I am passionate about developing people and transforming businesses; I get great pleasure in helping people to realise their dreams.

I have had the satisfaction of leading CLP Envirogas' growth from the seed of an idea to a company that was sold for over £120 million. Over 15 years the group grew from one employee to one hundred people on sites and in offices throughout the UK. We started and grew similar groups in Spain and Central America.

I have founded, run and grown companies mainly in the energy sector, sourcing funding, managing teams over multiple sites and gaining experience as a developer and a long-term operator. I have managed companies from start-up through multiple project development to ultimate sale or long-term investor returns.

My early career took me to China in the 1980s, where I worked closely with the Chinese government on chartering ships to support their growing import programme. This experience taught me a lot about managing complex relationships on both a business and a personal level: I had to understand and respect different attitudes and cultures. Over the years I have established good relationships between funds, investors, lenders, overseas partners and management/founders.

My Vistage Group helps members unlock their full potential and take their businesses to the next level. We enjoy a common purpose to achieve success, growth and a healthier, wealthier balanced life.

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