Alistair Baillie's Linkedin Analytics

- Product & Engineering Director Over 20 years experience, from working solo in startups/ scaleups to managing large teams in complex environments. I’ve both inherited teams and hired whole teams from scratch. I create a productive workplace and achieved miracles on tight budgets. I’ve had big budgets and teams, e.g. sole responsibility of a $16M Credit Risk project, or Implementation Manager for a $120M FX program; however I consider my biggest achievement to be taking on a $6M pensions automation project and achieving 92% cost-savings. I delivered it for only $500k. I’m comfortable with any of: fully remote teams including offshoring, fully in-the-office, and hybrid. - First 14 years in IT Delivery and IT Management IT Project, Program, Product, and Delivery Management; managing multiple programs of ~50 staff and ~$15M budgets. The majority were software development (Agile), but also included infrastructure change, project methodology consulting, product selection, and more. Clients: Commonwealth Bank of Australia, TAL Life, E*TRADE Australia, ASX (Australian Securities Exchange), Lloyds International, Sydney Water, Westfield Digital Business Group, Vero Insurance, Promina Group, Colonial First State, Queensland Electricity Board, Westpac, Macquarie Bank - Full business ownership, commercial accountability Aside from pure product and tech, I spent 5 years 2015-2020 gaining versatility and experience across all of business. To achieve this I moved to high-growth companies and into full business management. I was on the leadership team for two startups that successfully exited, making respectively: significant contribution to the scaling-up that led to exit; and the post-exit transformation roles. I completed internal restructures, and sold £2M of IT solutions. I completed a Series A raise, opened a US subsidiary and integrated (business, financial, ops) into the UK entity. - I understand my C-suite peers Now a Startup business owner, and Board Director, I’m still a geek at heart and enjoy managing a team to define, deliver, and support a product. Whilst tech is my world, I have exposure that gives me empathy and sympathy with my colleagues. I’m accountable for every business function: client support and fulfilment ops, HR, Payroll, Finance, Entity structuring and tax efficiency, CoSec, fundraising, sales, contract negotiations. I've won government grants (InnovateUK, SMART Cymru) and completed multiple fundraising rounds. No MBA course teaches as much as I've done for real!