Experience

Woodhurst

• United Kingdom
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder

  • Apr 2019 - Present

  Woodhurst helps financial organisations with change. We have partnered with some the UK’s leading Banks, Building Societies and Fintechs to improve their customer experience, reduce cost, remove risk and increase revenue. Our people We have attracted top talent from Big 4 consultancies by creating a start-up culture that enables consultants to do more for their clients. This appeals to entrepreneurial high performers who love the growth opportunities this brings, and it works well for our clients as they see the additional value this approach generates. Our specialities Open Banking + Open Finance - we help financial institutions understand their requirements for Open Banking, form their Open Finance strategy and partner with the best-in-class fintechs. We run the largest Open Finance founder community (SHIFT) focused on commercial outcomes. Partnering on digital outcomes - our clients like us for our commitment to delivery. Our fees are linked to the the client’s transformation outcomes. Understanding the fintech opportunity - we help financial organisations partner with the right fintech. Our deep understanding and fintech community allow us to find innovative solutions. www.woodhurst.com/about/ Show less



Credit Canary

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder

  • Sep 2022 - Present

  An early warning system to prevent missed credit repayments. Credit Canary enriches Open Banking data and applies predictive analytics to identify pre-arrears and provide treatments tailored to the customers' needs to prevent arrears from occurring. www.creditcanary.co.uk An early warning system to prevent missed credit repayments. Credit Canary enriches Open Banking data and applies predictive analytics to identify pre-arrears and provide treatments tailored to the customers' needs to prevent arrears from occurring. www.creditcanary.co.uk



SHIFT Open Finance Community

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder

  • Jan 2022 - Present

  SHIFT is a growing community of 140 fintech founders collaborating to accelerate the adoption of Open Banking and Open Finance. SHIFT's sandbox is powered by NayaOne, which is FCA approved and contains premium data sets to help its members spin up PoC and pilots for potential clients. SHIFT is there to help FIs partner with the best in class fintechs in the Open Banking & Open Finance space. It also helps Fintechs navigate financial organisations quickly to achieve commercial outcomes. www.shiftopenfinance.com Show less



bnbpal

• Australia
• Real Estate

• Co-Founder

  • May 2017 - Apr 2019

  The mission at Bnbpal was to simplify the short-stay hosting process. Moving to Melbourne in 2017, I saw first-hand what a burden it was for landlords to manage an Airbnb long distance. Generating income from my London property was easy, with multiple providers available in London to help manage the property between stays. Compared, Melbourne had no such service and presented an opportunity for a startup to plug the gap in the market. In response, we bootstrapped Bnbpal to simplify the short-stay rental market for Melbourne hosts. We built an innovative platform that integrated directly with Airbnb to automate guest comms, cleaning schedules and finances. Our innovative approach resulted in the lowest cost to serve amongst Australian competitors. We quickly grew from a handful of properties to hundreds, becoming Melbourne's market leader. Within two years, Bnbpal exceeded AUD 1m in annual revenues. In looking to move back to the UK, we quickly sought and found an appropriate buyer, Hometime, a leading Sydney-based competitor looking to launch in Melbourne, acquiring Bnbpal in 2019 for an undisclosed sum. Show less



BCS Consulting, part of Accenture

• United Kingdom
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Management Consultant

  • Aug 2012 - May 2017

  BCS, now part of Accenture since 2022, specialises in delivering complex business change projects to clients in banking and financial markets. Working across Finance, Compliance, Risk, Operations and Technology functions in the world’s leading banks and financial institutions. I spent 2 years helping HSBC’s Risk Strategy team design, build and deliver a centralised stress testing utility. We helped HSBC reduce the cost and increase the accuracy of its stress testing, in turn strengthening Risk’s relationships with the Business and the regulator. I spent 2 years at Deutsche Bank helping the Capital Markets tech team build trade and client reporting solutions for EMIR and MiFID2. We worked across tech and ops to help achieve compliance and accurate reporting. We supported Santander’s 2016 Bank of England stress test and introduced some of the improvements that BSC had made in other bank’s stress testing functions. I helped BCS build out its capital markets GTM strategy by writing thought leadership on MiFID2, taking it to market, and generating commercial opportunities at new clients. It was at BCS I met my co-founders of Woodhurst. We shared similar entrepreneurial goals for our own consultancy that took the best bits of a small consultancy culture with a focus on delivering digital transformation across Financial Services. Clients: HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Santander Show less



Accenture

• Ireland
• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Management Consultant

  • Sep 2009 - Sep 2012

  As an analyst I supported a successful bid to Deutsche Bank to re-shore their Finance operations. Supported Vodafone in a variety of PM roles. I helped turn around the failing Centrica and McLaren projects by introducing agile ways of working. After promotion to consultant I joined Lloyds Banking Group where I worked on a variety of projects relating to the divestment of TSB. I was approached by BCS, a boutique FS consultancy, and decided to try FS tech transformation at a smaller consultancy. Clients: Deutsche Bank, Vodafone, Lloyds Banking Group. Show less



Royal Bank of Scotland Business

• United Kingdom
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Summer Internship

  • Jul 2007 - Sep 2007

  I was assigned to the Lombard Asset Finance brand working from the Norwich branch for a few weeks where I helped with their “filing issues”. The amount of paper flying around was shocking. I tried to create a project to digitise some of it, but I ran out of time / didn’t know where to start. I moved to the Cambridge branch to support the sales team for the remainder of the internship. I was given the dead leads to try and convert. I must’ve called close to a thousand “one-man-bands” and probably sold less than 10 van leases. By the end of the internship I knew a lot about vans. I also knew that I wanted to become a management consultant as I’d heard they were helping RBS improve their systems and processes, which sounded fun. Show less



Southwestern Advantage

• United States
• Professional Training and Coaching
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Summer Internship

  • Jul 2006 - Sep 2006

  12 weeks of door-to-door sales of study guides to families across Denver’s suburbs. You were taught the art of selling in 1 week, sent to your region, given 12 weeks to knock on as many doors as possible, then deliver all the product by hand. Highlights included: selling $60ks worth of books over a 12 week period. Making it to day 11 before breaking down on the pavement in floods of tears. Working my first 80 hour week. Not quitting. Going “off schedule”, but getting back on track. To this day, the hardest job I’ve done and I’ll always invite any door-to-door salesperson into my home as I know how much it helps. Show less