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Pan-EU Director-level transformation and delivery expert and growth specilaist working directly with PE firms to fix underperforming businesses and build platforms. Responsibilities span new client engagement, product innovation and development, and deploying deep transformation expertise into portfolio ventures.

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English
Native or bilingual

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Can work on-site

London (up to 50km)

W A Chump & Sons
Director — Portfolio Incubation & Growth
DIGITAL AND IT
September 2024 - Today (1 year and 9 months)
London, United Kingdom
Director-level role within portfolio incubator and growth business working directly with PE firms to fix underperforming businesses and build platforms. Responsibilities span new client engagement, product innovation and development, and deploying deep transformation expertise into portfolio ventures.

Recent portfolio impact
• • ContractIQ (AI Contract Analysis Tool): Led commercial strategy and client engagement resulting in first enterprise client — a multinational logistics corporation. Translated technical capability into commercial proposition under time pressure.
• • AI Education Platform: Major role in product testing and development; platform currently in pilot phase with two significant schools. Leading product-market fit validation and commercial readiness workstreams.

Demonstrates capability to create value from ground zero — not just optimise existing operations — and fluency in both early-stage product validation and late-stage cost transformation.
Product Development Cost Reduction Digital Transformation value creation
Silverlake (Software AG)
Business Separation & Cost Optimisation Lead – IT
May 2025 - Today (1 year and 1 month)
Commercial separation: Carved out 2 divested BUs and split remainder into 2 entities for M&A readiness Cost impact: $45M reduction ($60M → $15M) via legacy simplification, and vendor elimination/renegotiation. Wave 2 additional 7–15% savings Salesforce, repeatable
Recapitalisation support: £1.1 M in-year savings from £19M spend; consolidated 200+ vendors in 6 months; >7.5% total cost reduction across owned/leased assets. De-risked supplier base and released working capital to clear path for Apollo's recap.
MacQuarie (Arqiva)
Programme Director, IT Outsourcing
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
January 2017 - February 2018 (1 year and 1 month)
London, United Kingdom
Exit readiness: Delivered $40M ITO programme supporting investor exit strategy. Maximised corporate value flexibility through infrastructure optimisation and IT environment restructuring — critical path work for transaction execution.

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Executive MBA
Lancaster University Management School.
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Heriot-Watt University
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