Martin Rueda

18 Week Support is the leading provider of clinical insourcing to the NHS, a hugely growing market, which has gained the trust from the NHS as a reliable, flexible and value for money solution to support them with their capacity. I spent 3 years as an executive at 18 Weeks Support. In those 3 years, the company went through an accelerated period of growth, as well as a successful sale to a private equity firm. I carried out a variety of roles in these 3 years, within and outside the Chief Strategy Officer role, being responsible for a lot of executive, finance and IT/Data remits: M&A: Led on the successful sale of 18 Week Support to Summit Partners (PE), involving commercial and financial due diligence, financial modelling, investor presentations and negotiations, investor due diligence etc.. worked alongside prestigious investment banks, management consultants, accountants and lawyers. Executive responsabilities:

- Led on the re-structure of the executive commitee, designing, hiring and implementing the new team, including a CPO, COO, CFO and CCO.

- Implemented the companies corporate governance strategy

- Implemented and was responsible for risk management in the business.

- Line managed the Chief Operations Officer and the Chief People Officer. Finance and strategy:

- In the absence of a CFO, led on financial forecasting and all financial modelling

- Carried out most of the financial and operational analysis in the business, hiring 4 top analysts and establishing a strategy/analysis team

- Supported with pricing and establishing a pricing team IT/Data:

- Implemented and optimised different systems for the business

- Led on the design and implementation of a data warehouse

Leading tech (fintech) company providing small businesses with a short-term loan product, focused on using technology and data to provide a solution which is much more sophisticated, user friendly and flexible than the banks. I started at iwoca post Series B, so I was lucky enough to be part of its scale up stage, where the company was growing rapidly. I was a little bit of a generalist in the business, working and reporting directly to the executive committee (CEO, COO, CMO), and helping out where the business needed it: 1) Headed the iwoca Spain team - mainly supported with the decision to withdraw from Spain. 2) Headed the UK Sales team - full pnl responsibility for this acquisition channel, reporting to the CMO and tasked to grow. 3) Worked on discrete projects - CRM marketing, product, strategy, operations for the UK team.

Akya is a leading management consulting firm in Mexico, founded by all ex Mckinsey partners, and focused on carrying out strategic and financial projects for banks, non-banks and private equity firms, primarily in the financial sector.

- As an analyst, I spent my day with financial modelling, presentation preparation, complex problem solving etc..

- Gained detailed knowledge of current banking regulations (Basel) required for accurate forecasting of banks balance sheet.