At Cigna, I was brought in as an Associate Director via Deloitte to design and implement a global programme governance framework. The initiative was a multi-year, $100m+ transformation aiming to consolidate Cigna’s disparate platforms into a single digital system spanning the US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. The challenge? Different regions were already working with their preferred...
ITV: Shifting Mindsets in a Creative Culture
At ITV, I was brought in to lead the design and implementation of a group-wide digital-first transformation strategy. The goal was to modernise operations and shift toward an agile, product-led operating model across multiple business units—ranging from traditional broadcast to digital content, commercial, and tech. The challenge was clear: while leadership supported the strategy, many...
Berry Bros. and Rudd: Creating Momentum Early in a Strategic Programme
Berry Bros. & Rudd—one of the UK’s oldest and most respected wine merchants—had just kicked off a major e-commerce and CRM transformation programme, integral to their 5-year growth strategy to double EBITDA to £18m. I was brought in as Delivery Director at the early inception stage to provide leadership across delivery assurance, stakeholder alignment, and...
The People’s Pension: Building Trust Early in a Digital Transformation
I was engaged as Programme Director at The People’s Pension at the very start of a company-wide digital transformation. The goal was to modernise the organisation’s entire digital offering—introducing new retirement products, improving member experience, and enabling agile ways of working across a very traditional, compliance-heavy environment. While there was strong board support and clear...
HSBC: Building Consensus in a Global Cloud Deployment
At HSBC, I was leading the deployment strategy for a new suite of AWS-hosted digital platforms, designed to improve resilience and speed up product delivery across multiple global markets—Americas, Europe, Asia, and the UK. It was a major shift from legacy infrastructure—technically and culturally. While group leadership was pushing for speed and innovation, regional CIOs...
Harrods Bank Regulatory Turnaround
I was brought in as Transformation Director and acting COO at Harrods Bank during a full-blown regulatory crisis. The FCA had effectively frozen new business activity due to major compliance gaps, and confidence internally was fractured. The change programme meant to address the issues was floundering—too slow, poorly scoped, and lacking leadership alignment
Systems Integration | Fix problems | Improve performance | Sustain change | Realise vision
Coop Retail Situation: Coop Retail required a review of operating processes at taxonomy levels 5 & 1 to identify gaps, disconnects, and digital opportunities. Sheffield Forgemasters International Ltd Situation: The company needed to comply with a government mandate to enhance competitiveness globally and improve overall business systems. Transformation & Continuous Improvement Specialist |...
Panda Retail – Business Transformation Programme
Panda Retail, part of the Savola Group, was embarking on a large-scale $150-million business transformation. They needed to migrate their on-premise merchandise operations into a modern multi-cloud architecture spanning supply chain fulfilment, planning and forecasting, store operations, and a new data and analytics ecosystem using Oracle, Relex, JDA, AWS and Azure.
Change Management Progress Tracking
I was working with a large global organisation which was implementing a Business Intelligence solution. My role was Deployment Lead which was basically a change management role for the programme impacting just over 100 global offices.
Waitrose – Business Transformation Programme
Waitrose transformation programme had stalled, the incumbent transformation part, who lead the programme from inception to up the first transition phase had loss the confidence of the client. The programme was over budget and gone way past its original timeframe. Capgemini had already been awarded the operations support contract and through this initial engagement won...
