Experienced global COO / Programme Manager with over 20 years of consistent success within Tier 1 investment banks; focusing upon project and programme delivery, strategy, reducing expenses, governance, controls and regulatory requirements. • Strong stakeholder and relationship management skills with experience of communicating and influencing at all levels, including building trusted relationships with CIOs and business heads • Considerable people, project, programme, portfolio, process and financial management experience • Proven at successfully completing large scale global programs using Agile or Waterfall delivery • Broad technology knowledge (including a PhD in computer science) with experience of application development, infrastructure, and production support • Investment banking / Capital Markets domain knowledge including specific knowledge of Equities and Prime Services Chief Operating Officer (COO) | Programme Manager | Chief Of Staff (CoS) | Business Management | Stakeholder Management | Vendor Management | Portfolio Management | Strategic | Change Agent | Agile | Cost Transparency and Reduction | Governance | Regulatory | Risk | Analytic | Highly Organised | Effective | Diplomatic | Emotionally Intelligent | Collaborative
Technology Change & Business Management Director at Columbia Threadneedle Investments EMEA APAC
PhD: Techniques to Support Computer Systems Modelling, Computation