- WayflyerHead of Strategic PartnershipsE-COMMERCESeptember 2021 - Today (3 years and 7 months)Dublin, IrelandOriginate and lead international partnerships with leading financial institutions and technology companies, such as JP Morgan, Zalando, eBay, and Adobe, to expand Wayflyer internationally. Directly resulting in over $200 million of revenue-based funding being deployed to eCommerce brands.● Lead the creation and implementation of Wayflyer's European partnership strategy, in partnership with the head of European sales and customer success, to enable our expansion into new European markets such as Germany, France, Spain, The Nordics and The Netherlands.● Analyse and leverage ecosystem data to develop new products, alongside engineering, that solve some of the biggest challenges in eCommerce.● Collaborate with M&A brokers, private equity firms, venture capital firms, and financial advisors to create joint ventures and strategic initiatives.● Enhance customer retention by developing a consultancy arm within Wayflyer where brand founders can connect with industry leading partners in order to scale their businesses.● Host networking events and dinners to enhance and build strong relationships across the eCommerce space.● Built internal systems to streamline internal business development and partner management operations incollaboration with CS, sales, engineering, legal, and the revenue operations teams
- Delio GroupStrategic Propositions & Partnerships LeadJanuary 2019 - January 2020 (1 year)United KingdomLeadstrategic projects with globalfinancialinstitutions to acquire new business and drive digitaltransformation projects for a leading private markets SaaS provider.●Leveraged Delio technology to build and runImpactAgora,theworld's first Impact Investing marketplace, in partnership with Barclays Private Bank. This unique offering facilitates syndication opportunities for leading Family Offices, Foundations, Corporates, and Private Banks while enabling Barclays and Delio to acquire new customers.Page|2●Lead and managed our enterprise client accounts e.g. UBS, Coutts, Barclays, and National Australia Bank.●Championed customer needs in order to develop new product areas or enhance existing ones.●Lead and manage external vendor relationships to enable product drive enhancements and streamline internal systems.●Developed strategies for securing new private market digital transformation projects by working closely with leading UK investment houses.●Collaborated with ex-institutional private equity executives to create and launch an innovative private equity solution(TruffleInvest).●Lead sponsorship conversations with Barclays, Blackrock, and PWC to secure funding to build strategic initiatives.
- Welsh GovernmentProject ConsultantJanuary 2018 - January 2019 (12 months)United KingdomWorkedatthe cutting edge of technology innovation and developmentto shape the Welsh digitaleconomy by forming relationships with high-growth tech companies, governments, corporations and universities.●Developed and managed a seed accelerator program to enable Welsh technology companies form strategic partnerships and acquire equity funding to scale.●Partnered with relevant vendors to enhance accelerator offering.●Partnered with academics, SMEs, and corporations to establish new digital technology innovation clusters, capabilities, and expertise alongside institutions, including DCMS and Innovate UK.●Developed a cyber security innovation project with Airbus, Cardiff University, Awen Collective and Innovate UK.
- BA Politics and International RelationsUNIVERSITY COLLEGE2014BA Politics and International Relations