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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.

Guest Speaker

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

Crystallised Communications Limited

We empower individuals to break free from the corporate grind and step confidently into entrepreneurship. 

Our mission is to raise awareness that you have a choice—you don’t have to stay stuck in an unfulfilling corporate role, waiting for someone else to determine your future or for retirement to arrive. There is another path, and it’s yours to take."

Co-Founder

Block Dojo

Global Blockchain Incubator for Tech Start-Ups

Mentor

Techstars

Techstars is a mentorship-driven seed stage investment programme. Techstars run programmes in Austin (TX), Boston (MA), Boulder (CO), Cloud (San Antonio, TX), Chicago (IL), New York City (NY), Seattle (WA), and London (UK).

NBT (Next Big Thing)

Next Big Thing (NBT) are a Growth Studio, helping businesses build, accelerate and sustain growth to thrive in the future.

Growth Consultant

The Company of Entrepreneurs

The Company of Entrepreneurs is a Guild of the City of London and an aspirant Livery Company. It is made up of men and women who have invested their own money and time in setting up and running successful businesses.

Freeman

Anthesis Group

Following the sale of Progressive to Anthesis, now part of the Group’s Innovation practice, connecting global corporate clients to innovative, sustainable startup technologies. Anthesis is the largest group of sustainability experts globally, with over 1,400 in 23 countries.”

Director of Startup Eco-systems

Baltic Ventures

Baltic Ventures is a tech accelerator on a mission to support game-changing founding teams who are building the solutions and businesses of tomorrow. From our hyper-local base in Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle we accelerate early-stage tech businesses with global ambition

Business Coach

FemTech Lab

The leading global FemTech-focused accelerator that helps rising stars take their products to market and raise funding.

Progressive HQ

PROGRESSIVE (www.thisisprogressive.com) helps organisations unlock and commercialise new growth opportunities more rapidly than their competition and more effectively than traditional innovation programmes.
 
Based in London, with Pilot44 partner offices in San Francisco, Singapore and Australia and working across retail, automotive, financial services, media and entertainment, FMCG and professional services sectors. Collectively, we have helped organisations bring over 200 new ventures and pilots to market, adding over £120m+ of value to our clients businesses over the last 36 months.

From October 2023, we are proud to be joining Anthesis Group, the largest group of sustainability experts worldwide.

Partner / Co-Founder

University of Hull

The Government sponsored programme is an opportunity for senior business leaders to build expertise across the key areas and to boost confidence that they’re on the right track. The programme combines a practical curriculum, with one-to-one support from a business mentor, peer-learning sessions and an alumni network. By the end of the programme leaders will have developed a business growth plan to help them lead their business to release its potential.

Mentor (Help-To-Grow Management Programme)

Director of Startup Eco-systems: Anthesis Group | Author ‘The Startup Lexicon’

Stuck in a corporate role that looks great on paper but feels unfulfilling? Each week feels the same as the next, a constant fight for survival, and you feel like your only option is to hang on until retirement—no matter how far away it is?

I’ve also experienced the corporate world at a high level, so I understand how an impressive title and role can eventually lose its shine and turn into an unfulfilling weight on your shoulders. But here’s the truth: I made the leap. I stepped off the corporate train and started building my own path as an entrepreneur—and I’ve never looked back. And you can do it too. It’s not too late. Your idea is good enough. And most importantly, you are not too old.

As a leading authority on the topic of jumping the corporate train and starting your own life as your own boss, I have been invited to speak on many subjects including:
•	Why entrepreneurism could be right for you
•	Why the barriers that get in your way are ‘all in your head’ and can be bypassed
•	The 5 first steps that you need to take towards being your own boss

At the heart of what I do is providing a guiding light, helping people navigate through and out of the fog of the corporate world and into the clarity of entrepreneurship. 

At its core, my mission is to raise awareness that you have a choice—you don’t have to stay stuck in unfulfilling work, waiting for someone else to determine your future or for retirement to arrive. There is another path, and it’s yours to take."

"Looking for a compelling and captivating keynote speaker for your next event? Let's connect!

I am also the co-author of the ‘The Startup Lexicon’ a book which aims to demystify the everyday language of startups, described by Roei Samuel (exited founder and angel investor) as ‘A Rosetta Stone that levels the playing field by demystifying the jargon, terminology and acronyms that often act as a barrier to those entering the (startup) ecosystem’. 

The Lexicon is now into it’s 2nd edition and features over 270 definitions, supported by 50+ stories from experts within the startup ecosystem.

Ken Valledy

Are Universities Really Preparing Students for the Real World?

I really enjoyed being on the Insider London podcast discussing the subject of students and are they ready for the real world upon graduation. In this short clip I discuss how I feel that Universities (in my opinion) don't focus enough on teaching the 'softer skills' as part of a business course (ie. Networking, replying to emails etc). As usual, all views welcome. 

#SofterSkills #Founders #Startups #Entrepreneur

https://lnkd.in/e8YV_E9f

Ex Brand Director ABInBev. Now Keynote speaker and advocate for professionals seeking to break free from the corporate world and embrace entrepreneurship. Author of The Startup Lexicon. Podcast host. Startup panelist.

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