Education
IMD
BOT, 2006-01-01 - 2006-01-01Institute of Financial Services
Cert in BCM, Bank Card Management 2004-01-01 - 2005-01-01Birmingham City University
BA (Hons), Banking and Finance 1994-09-01 - 1996-06-01Chartered Institute of Bankers
ACIB, Banking - 1992-06-01Work Experience
Visa
Current
Visa
Santander
2007-04-01 - 2008-11-01
Santander
Abbey
2006-08-01 - 2007-04-01
Abbey
Visa
2001-11-01 - 2006-07-01
Visa
Barclays
1999-02-01 - 2001-10-01
Barclays
Skills
Summary
Jan09 - joined Visa Europe to drive contactless roll-out and consumer usage in the UK and a range of Northern European markets including Poland, Scandanavia and Czech Republic. Jun11 - Market development responsibilities now include new Mobile based services e.g. NFC proximity payments. Previously with Abbey (Santander) heading business banking product marketing (2006/07) moving up to head strategy and development team (2007/08) - looking after medium term planning, business change and defining product development requirements. Prior to that ran Business and Corporate Cards for Visa International, CEMEA region and spent 3 years designing and delivering card based SMS mobile payment solutions to enable consumers to use remote channels to top-up and make bill payments. Deployed in North Africa, Middle East, Eastern Europe. Experienced retail banker from branch management to new channel development (Web/iTV/Mobile). Specialties: Product/solution development, design, delivery. Strategy. Sales and Business Development. Project Management. International experience (Africa, Middle East and Eastern Europe)