Management Team
He has considerable expertise in operational strategy and management, large-scale business improvement, company turnaround and change implementation projects in start-up, high growth and mature situations. He started his business career as a Master Black Belt in Six Sigma methods with GE Capital and from there went on to run Citigroup’s client account operations for the Global Corporate & Investment Bank in Europe. On joining Xchanging, a large VC-backed Business Process Outsourcing company in 2000, Robin was responsible for the operational aspects of acquiring and integrating the back-offices of Lloyd’s of London and the International Underwriting Association. He founded Venturehaus in January 2002 and has since advised on and led numerous Six Sigma deployments and operational change programmes in banking, insurance, wealth management and commercial finance. In the last 4 years Robin has trained over 500 financial services managers in Six Sigma and is an adviser to senior executives at some of the UK’s largest financial institutions. 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 international work experience in Europe, Africa and Asia, and is fluent in German.
He has 26 years' experience of business development and transformation in financial and administration services. Prior to Venturehaus, Alan led the creation of a Corporate Banking practice for IBM Business Consulting Services, specialising in business strategy, business transformation, and organisational change. Before this, Alan spent over 20 years with Citigroup in several different businesses. During this long career Alan held executive management positions in customer and business strategy; 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. Alan has a track record of restructuring, developing, improving and managing services businesses, in onshore and offshore locations, in financial markets and banking services, investment management and third-party administration. He has brought this to bear in Venturehaus by advising senior Financial Services executives at a strategic level in deploying their business improvement initiatives, in training and coaching managers to execute these strategies, and in leading successful change programmes in their businesses. 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.
Prior to joining Venturehaus, Paul was a Lean Leader at GE Life and GE Commercial Finance, where he spearheaded the roll-out of Lean in Europe and its 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. Paul has successfully deployed Lean in 2 different financial services environments across both front and back offices, and has personally trained and coached over 60 Black Belts and Master Black Belts. Working within the businesses, he has taken the lead in over 55 successful Lean events. Prior to joining GE, Paul demonstrated a proven track record in Change Management, Six Sigma and Business Process Re-Engineering in the Aerospace industry and is an accomplished Six Sigma coach. He has 14 years of management experience in both Sales and Operational roles and has considerable leadership experience from his time as a commissioned officer in the Royal Air Force. Paul has an honours degree from Portsmouth University.
Mark has over 22 years experience in private equity. He spent 17 years with BancBoston Capital (BBC), where he became the Managing Director, responsible for the development capital and buyout activities of the group within the UK. Between 1986 and 2000 he led the investment in twenty-nine private companies, including successful lead investments in Games Workshop, Caffè Nero, Blue Wave Systems, Unity Brands, Sorex and Menzies Hotels. On leaving BBC in 2001 he also became a non-executive director and chairman of the audit committee of Fleet Bank (Europe) Limited, the FSA-regulated banking subsidiary of FleetBoston Financial Corporation; a position he held until 2004. In 2004 he joined the board of Mediterranean Mezzanine as a non-executive director, one of the first mezzanine funds to be formed in Italy. In 2002 Mark founded Alcuin Capital, an independent private equity investment company targeting smaller UK growth companies and in 2006, joined Core Capital to continue his focus in this area. Mark graduated from Balliol College, Oxford with a BA in History and later gained an MA in History from Birkbeck College, London. |
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