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Chris in a few words
Business case developer & strategic planner. Flexible location & open minded to remuneration as an equity share / share options. Day rate quoted is same as my last assignment's.
Diverse skills & CV offering commercial, entrepreneurial & visual creativity in contrasting environments - producing outputs that are based on deep research & analysis (reports), that inform strategic planning & decision making (recommendations, business cases, investment proposals & presentations). FCA Registered. Prince 2 Practitioner.
Fluent in scenarios involving the StartUp lifecycle, complexity & multi party problem solving / projects and innovation ('Wicked' Problems - Rittel & Webber). I’m an acolyte of Mission Orientation as popularised by Prof. Mazzucato at the University College London (UCL) & Sir Michael Barber, ex Downing St Policy Delivery Unit. (Summary: Vision, ambition, collaboration & alignment.)
Adaptable to Sales, Programme Direction and Project Management roles. Customers like me - I’m candid / authentic & build strong relationships because I add value with quality work, drive & a desire to create trust.
StartUp exposure includes previous successes and failures, resulting in a high sensitivity to risk and problem solving when developing business cases and investment propositions. I know what probably works and what definitely does not..
Experience
- Flexihouse LtdConsultant / Creative / EntrepreneurCONSULTING & AUDITSMarch 2016 - Today (9 years and 1 month)London, United KingdomTwelve years in The City, dealing Exchange Traded Futures / Options across all asset classes & FX (Financial Conduct Authority registered). Then consultancy for a regulated firm, focusing on StartUps.CV incl'‘Prince 2’ Project Management ‘Practitioner’Media - regular live TV and radio financial commentary for Bloomberg, CNBC, ITV, BBC etc & writing a magazine columnMyers–Briggs classification: ENTP (Extraversion, Intuition, Thinking, Perception)Visual / creative sensitivity – valuable when coordinating UX / Brand ID as part of an overall & integrated business case / development strategy: it’s the first thing your customers & competitors see…In 2011 I left for a couple of years to do something completely different & studied Art, (a long- standing obsession) @ Chelsea College of Art, gaining a Master’s Degree in Fine Art 2013.Since then, consultancy assignments in the UK & Australia, Start Ups & running a small online retail business, (five years of accounts at Companies House).Recent projects / assignments surround ‘Wicked Problems’ (a term coined by academics Rittel & Webber) - i.e. multi party, highly complex & entrenched commercial / public sector crossover obstacles that block valuable & wide reaching reform & progress.Therefore, fluent in a ‘Mission Orientation’ Project Management approach - See Prof. Mazzucato at UCL or Sir Michael Barber, ex Downing St Policy Delivery Unit.Current projects: two StartUpsi.) Developing sustainable, scalable, affordable buildingmaterials, from industrial hemp. Project has secured two rounds of product design research funding at a University's Sustainable Research Institute.ii.) Software payments infrastructure responding directly to Bank of England’s ‘Synchronisation Operator’ business model vision that asks for commercial sector partners.
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Education
- Master's DegreeUniversity of the Arts London2013Master's Degree
- Prince 2 'Practitioner'Prince 22008
Certifications
- Registered RepresentativeFinancial Conduct Authority / Securities Institute / Sydney Futures Exchange2000