Managing Director

• Mar 2017 - Present

I am co-founder and co-MD at NovAzure, overall managing with my fellow partners our activities with startups, Corporate and Investors. NovAzure was created because of a shared belief that clean energy and mobility are attainable if we accelerate collaboration and innovate together. NovAzure services fast-track the transition to Net-Zero in the areas of energy and mobility, working with Start-ups, Corporates and Investors to: - Support innovative Start-ups and Scale-ups with their strategy, go-to-market, fundraising and operations scaling. - Help corporates to grow innovations and partnerships to accelerate decarbonisation. - Bring curated deal flow and services to cleantech and impact Investors. At NovAzure, we believe that putting the customer at the heart of everything is key to unlocking value. It means understanding their needs and aspirations to develop the right solutions for them. Our aim is to build long-term relationships of trust and act as a ‘thinking partner’ for leadership teams, providing the right measure of constructive challenge. We bring a complementary set of skills and experience, ranging from strategy, finance, marketing and cleantech expertise to using agile deployment methodologies. It is also about leveraging our ever-growing eco-system to help our clients to accelerate commercial traction and fast-track their path to net-zero. The Values that drive us are: - Make the World greener - Focus on the long term - Eco-system, not Ego-system - Humility and Learning - Honesty, Integrity and Inclusivity

Director Of Business Development

• Aug 2020 - Present

Start-Up Lead

• Jul 2020 - Present

Managing Director

• May 2017 - Present

SigmaSurge is a company offering services and tailor made solutions in the space of energy efficiency, alternative energy and operational improvements. Our clients range from small businesses to Multinationals who wish to excel not only with their green agenda but also extract tangible cost optimisations and implement new revenue streams through smart energy solutions. SigmaSurge is a company offering services and tailor made solutions in the space of energy efficiency, alternative energy and operational improvements. Our clients range from small businesses to Multinationals who wish to excel not only with their green agenda but also extract tangible cost optimisations and implement new revenue streams through smart energy solutions.

UK Retail Strategy Implementation Program Manager

• Aug 2014 - Feb 2017

Managing workstreams across multiple business functions including Marketing, Sales, Operations and Network Planning to implement a strategy to maximize customer satisfaction and performance for the UK Shell Retail division to effectively cover market demand and ultimately increase revenue growth via: ♦ CVP improvements within the B2C and B2B environment, re-structuring of Retailer performance management, IT optimisation and in-direct channel growth ♦ Implementation of a retail network change after a multimillion GBP sale of 185 company owned Shell Service stations to independent dealers by setting and leading a project team of 11 FTEs to roll out the project in 8 months.♦ Implementing an End to End Continuous Improvement cost and efficiency programme across 10+ internal departments and external service providers to guarantee a flawless interaction with 200+ Shell retailers and dealers.

Shell Aviation Global Offer to Cash Process Expert

• Jun 2011 - Jul 2014

Lead Offer to Cash improvement projects for Shell Aviation sales, within global Shared Service Centres and local sales and support offices of 170 staff. Key projects include:♦ Dispute / Correction Management: Steered a Lean & Six Sigma project within a special Expat assignment in Manila, which harmonised dispute and correction processes between Customer Service Centres and account owners in 40 countries, generated millions of dollars in cost savings. ♦ Continuous Improvement: Re-designed pricing processes and retrained global staff to produce increased invoice accuracy of 1.5% which produced substantial savings.

Global Shell Aviation Streamline Design Lead

• Feb 2007 - May 2011

Delivered business critical replacement of core invoicing and pricing systems of $BN proceeds; responsible for end-to-end project management and related streamlining of ‘Offer to Cash’ processes. ♦ Achieved an ‘impossible’ one day go-live of 11 IT applications across 40 countries, including six purpose-built applications for pricing, order processing, fuel card management, supply chain and forecasting tools. ♦ Deployed to Manila to direct a team of ten in manual transitions from the legacy system.

Aviation Sales Support & Junior Account Manager – Shell Aviation Ireland

• Oct 2003 - Jan 2007

Collaborated with Sales Manager to direct the extensive Irish Shell Aviation portfolio, including Ryanair and Aer Lingus. Key projects:♦ Channel Cost Analysis: Contributed to a >75% bottom line increase over two years; improved pricing models through enhancing channel cost clarity and quality.♦ Irish Aviation Carve-out: Managed a pre-acquisition carve-out of 30 key SME accounts; streamlined processes across the entire sales process including ordering, delivery and supply, and established a new customer service centre in the UK.♦ European Aviation On-boarding Events: Designed and delivered induction training for 75 new starters and oversaw a team of degree student trainees.

General Aviation Sales Support & Projects – Germany, Austria and Switzerland

• Oct 2002 - Sep 2003

Oversaw a multi-million-dollar sales portfolio of General Aviation customers and undertook a variety of business improvement initiatives. Key projects included:♦ Segmented List Pricing: created a list pricing process, which significantly optimised margins, and still forms a major part of Shell’s global pricing strategy.♦ Unleaded AVGAS / Low Volume Segments: piloted the introduction of unleaded AVGAS into a new market sector.♦ Aviation DEA Integration: Led the division’s integration into wider Shell Aviation; harmonised numerous sales procedures across contracts, pricing and fuel card management.♦ AERO / EBACE Events: Directed company’s participation in two large client-driven industry events

Commercial Trainee

• Oct 1999 - Sep 2002

Selected to undertake rotating traineeship for the practical elements of Bachelor in Business Administration degree at Shell / RWE joint venture. Gained 95 / 100 for final year dissertation. Selected to undertake rotating traineeship for the practical elements of Bachelor in Business Administration degree at Shell / RWE joint venture. Gained 95 / 100 for final year dissertation.

Tank Artillery Radio/Fire Operator, SFOR assistant instructor

• Sep 1998 - Jun 1999

Recruited as Radio and Fire Operator; rapidly promoted to instruct soldiers, who were deployed to Kosovo. Recruited as Radio and Fire Operator; rapidly promoted to instruct soldiers, who were deployed to Kosovo.