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I am a creative leader who brings a punkish entrepreneurial spirit and a pragmatic style. With a relentless focus on customer value, disruptive tech, behaviours and future trends, I have helped pick up a few accolades and awards, and worked in many parts of the world. Known for thinking outside the box and connecting the dots; for turning vision into clear and impactful customer data driven strategies; for building high performing teams; for coaching the best (and worst) out of people, ideas and missions; for creating purpose driven roadmaps that deliver genuine, incremental and continuous value. 25+ years experience across industries including tv, entertainment, publishing, sports, gaming, ecommerce, retail and telco. Expertise is in... > Creating & measuring impactful customer driven strategies > Creating high performing teams > Delivering things that delight customers > Delivering things that drive genuine & sustainable business growth A few sound bites... > VP / Group Product Director responsible for digital - team building, strategy, design, delivery, launch & growth of B2C and B2B products for two major telco groups in Eurasia and South East Asia – chat, gaming, marketplace / ecommerce, content streaming, fintech & social media. Responsible for helping to grow from zero to multi million DAUs in 12-18mths. > Built new ‘blended’ ways of working, comprising technical, product and business skills & capabilities.  Empowered by customer data driven approaches, the results delivered such significant benefits to this major retail business, it was proof enough for entire org to move to these new ways of working. > Pioneered use of POS data collection, enrichment and algorithmic processing, which revolutionised Auto Retail clients in 5 markets across Europe, generating $multi million revenues in first year of operation. > Lead customer data driven review for a major retail entertainment provider, identifying clear opportunities to improve operations, resulting in $multi million savings in acquisitions and retention within 12 months. > Lead the strategy, design, development and launch of a video-on-demand and mail order service across three European markets. Recognised as a co-inventor, and acquired by Amazon and became Prime Video globally. > Pioneered cloud based production workflows for TV ‘from Camera to Viewers’, removing tape from News, Sports, Kids & Documentary production for two major international TV companies.