Experience

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  JKO Connect

  • Edinburgh, London and Cape Town

  • Chief Executive Officer

    • Jun 2022 - Present
    • Edinburgh, London and Cape Town

    JKO Connect fouses Product - Consultancy, Management and Agility, Software Delivery - ontime and to budget and People and Teams - Team Augmentation, outsource and Recruitment.We work with our customers on solving their problems, our goal is the desired customer outcome. We analyse, plan and execute with our customers.Our mission is to help clients build great products and to find and retain the right people and teams We provide flexibility and adaptability to support business growth based on our core philosophy that people are at the centre of everything.We pride ourselves on build our business from client referrals and work to achieve the right outcome for our clients.

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  Appurity Connect Ltd

  • Farnham, Surrey

  • Product Management

    • Jan 2015 - Present
    • Farnham, Surrey

    Appurity Connect develop apps for the finance and legal industry.Rubus, Filesite for Smartphone it allows Legal firms to 'Send and File' their emails to iManage Work, to 'File from Inbox' and much more, find out more at www.appurityconnect.com.Oriel connects the iManage DMS (Document Management System) with the document DRM (Digital Rights Management) of BlackBerry Workspaces (formerly Watchdox).

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  SG Digital (Division of Scientific Games Corporation)

  • London, United Kingdom

  • SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) Consultant, Agile Coach and Senior Manager

    • Sep 2017 - Aug 2022
    • London, United Kingdom

    Brought into Openbet (now SG Digital) by exec team to help to transition the circa 500 person Product Development organisation to the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). The change has been sponsored by a dynamic Exec team and the role involves working with all parts of the business to drive the change and value to the SG Digital customers.Implemented a number of trains over a number of programs, governed by a Portfolio and Large Solution layer.Working with a great team of technologist and business teams, this is an exciting and fast paced business that has embraced a new way of working and is improving everyday.

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  Ladbrokes Coral

  • Gibraltar

  • Innovation Consultant and Agile Specialist

    • Aug 2014 - Sep 2017
    • Gibraltar

    Brought in by the Head of Sportsbook to work on a change program moving from subcontract the Sportsbook to building the Sportsbook inhouse.Consultant services to help Coral and then Ladbrokes Coral move to a new way of working using Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) to build their own internal development teamI helped Ladbrokes Coral transition to SAFe in the internal and external developing scaling from a small team to a team of 200 in 24 months in 3 countries: Lviv, Ukraine, Gibraltar and London.

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  BlackBerry

  • Canada
  • Software Development
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • EMEA Alliances Director - App Innovation

    • May 2013 - Jul 2014

    To own innovation in the partnership team and guide BD leads globally on strategy, responsibilities to analyse platform capabilities and define markets to focus on, liaising internally with all key teams, briefing marketing, managed budgets and investments and coached team on engagement techniquesKey Achievements:• Created target categories and drove the EMEA team to identify key opportunities• Delivered best in class: Travel apps, Banking with hellobank and The Guardian• Defined future platform capabilities with Product Management

  • EMEA Alliances Director

    • Dec 2011 - May 2013

    To lead EMEA BD team on ecosystem development and build for BlackBerry 10, responsibilities included defining app market targets based on market requirements, reorganising the team, C level engagement with partners, managing budget and identifying investment oppo’s. conceived and executed full go to market for BlackBerry 10 app strategy.Key Achievements:• Set team up to deliver defined top apps and potential new top apps• App agreements with BBC, Sky, Times, Guardian, RBS and many others• At launch the BlackBerry 10 platform had more top apps than any other new platform

  • UK Consumer Apps Lead

    • Jan 2010 - Nov 2011

    To lead UK app BD and build the team to recruit top consumer apps, responsibilities included defining the app strategy for the UK, building the target list, engaging with top brands to bring them to BlackBerry, built out consumer apps team, delivered Key Achievements:• Identified top apps and relentless worked with my team to chase them down• Delivered iPlayer, Sky apps, Natwest, Barclays, and more: 95% of top apps on BBOS• Designed BBM Money with partner as first P2P money transfer app

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  Research in Motion

  • United Kingdom

  • Senior Alliances Solutions Manager, EMEA

    • Oct 2007 - Jan 2010
    • United Kingdom

    To work with operators to find best apps to go to market in business and consumer, responsibilities setup new business unit to support operators proposition, identify and recruit partner that operators can take to market, brief operator management on apps and strategy, jointly define commercials and go to market.Key Achievements:• Defined the key areas where operators could deliver and monitise a service• Worked with Vodafone and T-Mobile with Sat Nav and other travel services• Identified Enterprise grade solutions that carriers could take to market

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  LAN 2 LAN

  • United Kingdom

  • Head of Mobile Data Business

    • Jul 2001 - Jul 2007
    • United Kingdom

    Started in business development and moved up to head the MDS business, responsibilities included identifying Reseller opportunities for new mobile products, defined the app platform strategy, commissioned internal build of .roam platform, outsourced certain parts of the solution, as MD of the mobile business, defined the strategy and business plan,Key Achievements:• As mobile data and BlackBerry appeared, I built my business on it• Delivered solutions to customers that led the industry• Mainly new customers from QVC to G4S and beyond.