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Management Team
He has considerable experience in operational strategy and management, large-scale business improvement, company turnaround and change implementation in start-up, high growth and mature situations. He has been working in the City for over 10 years and prior to establishing Venturehaus, he worked for GE Capital, Citigroup and Xchanging. Robin founded Venturehaus in January 2002 and has since advised on and supported operational change programmes in banking, insurance, wealth management and commercial finance. Although primarily focused on running and growing Venturehaus, Robin continues to provide consulting to senior executives at leading global financial corporations in the UK, US and Asia. Robin graduated with an Honours degree from Oxford Brookes University before attending the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and serving 6 years as an Army Officer. He has worked internationally in Europe, Africa and Asia, and is fluent in German.
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.
He has taken the lead in over 150 successful Lean interventions generating benefits in excess of £200million and has personally trained and coached over 200 Lean Experts. Prior to joining Venturehaus in 2005, Paul was a Lean Leader at GE Life and GE Commercial Finance, where he was responsible for the strategy, planning and roll-out of Lean across Europe and his work was instrumental in the integration into GE’s Lean Sigma initiative. At GE, Paul was recognised globally for the successful launch of Lean into the company’s financial services businesses. Before joining GE, Paul had demonstrated a track record in Change Management, Six Sigma and Business Process Re-Engineering in the Aerospace industry where, for instance, he was Head of the Pan-European Continuous Improvement Programme at FLS. He has 20 years of management experience in both Sales and Operational roles and has considerable leadership experience from his time as a commissioned officer in the RAF. Paul has an honours degree from Portsmouth University. Paul has been involved in almost all of Venturehaus’ Lean engagements, and has also trained Lean experts at 2 major global consultancy firms. He has recently led Lean deployments in AEGON Scottish Equitable, Barclays, CIT, ABN AMRO and Department for Work and Pensions (the largest Lean deployment to date in Europe), and has also run Lean engagements at Bear Stearns, Beckett Investment Management, Capital One, Just Retirement, Barclaycard, and Standard Life. |
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