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Alan Noble – Managing Director of Venturehaus and expert on financial and administration services

Alan is the Co-founder, Co-owner and a Managing Director of Venturehaus Limited. He is a Senior Executive with personal CEO and Board-level experience in Banking and Securities organisations, and a Managing Director with proven success in developing businesses and client relationships at senior levels.

He has a track record of building, re-structuring and managing financial services businesses in UK and European onshore and offshore markets, and also has extensive operations management, business improvement, and quality assurance expertise.

He now has over 30 years of in-depth financial services experience, covering all aspects of wholesale and retail banking, securities, and investment management. After an accomplished, international 22-year career with one of the world’s leading financial organisations (Citibank), he led the creation of a business consulting practice for IBM in banking, before setting up Venturehaus 8 years ago. During this long career Alan held executive management positions in customer and business strategy; region, country, subsidiary and branch management; corporate and institutional client relationship management; transaction banking product management and sales; middle and back-office administration; and treasury, banking and investment operations. He was latterly the Programme Director for the operational elements of the pan-European optimisation programme (a major restructuring and transformation of the legal vehicle structures, operational footprint and banking platforms across all 18 Western European countries), and the Regional Director of Quality for the UK and Ireland offshore markets. Alan has a Masters degree from Oxford University, has worked in the UK, US and Continental Europe, and is bilingual in German and fluent in French.

He has co-developed Venturehaus’ Design for Operational ExcellenceTM approach, including methodologies, training curricula and business process simulations specifically designed for financial services businesses. He has been involved in most of Venturehaus’ engagements with over 50 financial institutions clients, at both an executive and a delivery level, and has personally advised, trained and coached over 1,000 executives and senior managers across the industry.

Specialist Sectors:
Corporate and Commercial Banking; Investment Banking, Corporate Finance and Capital Markets; Retail Banking; Credit Cards; Private Banking and Wealth Management; Institutional and Retail Asset/Investment Management and Mutual Funds; Third Party Funds Administration

Specialist Areas:
Operational Transformation: Lean & Six Sigma Deployment Strategy and Programme Design; Operational Strategy and Management; Shared Services; Outsourcing & Offshoring; Operations Due Diligence; Acquisition Integration

Recent Authorship:

Operational Excellence: What is the Hype About?

Market Research: Operational Excellence in European Banks 2008

Alan is a regular speaker on the Financial Services conference circuit, including most recently at the world-renowned financial services event SIBOS and the Financial Times conferences.




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