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Neil Howlin

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Hi, I'm Neil Howlin. Welcome to my profile!

Neil Howlin's Bio:

Neil Howlin's Experience:

• Vice President at Credit Suisse

  May 2009 - October 2010

  European Lead for Strategic Programme Office - driving Target Operating Model definition and implementation across Global Operations.

• Director at Lehman Brothers

  December 2007 - April 2009

  Led a small team of project managers, set up to focus sepcifically on a portfiolio of Legal, Compliance and Transaction issues. Key projects: - Global regulatory reporting system development (reduced release cycle by 33%) - Europe/Asia Lead for transaction documentation system replacement (inherited two-year overdue project with no planning, brought on track with European as lead deployment region). - European offshoring program for compliance and transaction legal services. - Following acquisition by Nomura, led projects for integration of Compliance systems and transaction confirmation processes.

• Senior Consultant at Capgemini Consulting

  September 2005 - November 2007

  Key Projects: Aug 07 - Nov 07 (Paris & Zurich) Change Management stream lead for Europe-wide (13 country) implementation of Sales Force Automation / CRM system for a top 10 Pharmaceutical Company. Feb 07 - Jul 07 (London) Project Manager for "Top of the Office" - an internal change programme to introduce and implement new consultation/advisory methodology for working with CxO-level executives. Sep 05 - Jan 07 (London) Dept for Education and Skills Project Manager (from Aug 06 - previously stream lead for 3 workstreams). Project to implement strategy to save ?300m over 5 years by merging delivery of educational buildings with broader school building programme. High-profile, highly politicised project working with Academies (flagship government policy)

• Research Associate at Henley Management College

  January 2004 - August 2005

  Centre for Business in the Digital Economy (CBDE) - Researcher and co-author of reports and articles, alonside MBA study. Key Projects: > Board-room approach to Information Assurance & Security (alignment with corporate strategy and governanance) > Business Continuity Management in SMEs (behavioural drivers of leadership decisions in both good and poor examples of BCM). Clients: Qinetiq, Axa

• Consultant at Freelance

  April 2003 - August 2005

  Freelance consulting to support self-financed MBA. Selected Projects: > Growth strategy for mid-sized technology firm (sales, marketing and org structure) > Acquisition strategy & Post-Merger Integration for marketing services group > Technical Due Diligence for PR firm > Technology Transformation for advertising agency > Mobility Pilot Study for technology services group. Clients: Loewy Group; Carrenza; Servo Group; Wilson Harvey; Night & Day; Western & Oriental Group; The Knightsbridge

• Chief Operating Officer at Metrocube/Beyond Bricks

  April 2000 - March 2003

  Ran business operations to provide start-up infrastructure and environment for 80+ Internet businesses (team of 9 staff and operating budgets up to ?1m). Directly worked with 160+ start-ups (business plan development, marketing, infrastructure and partnership development). Our monthly networking events were semi-legendary, with regular attendance of 150+. Key projects managed include ?500k expansion to double capacity funded by revenuem and a business process review to develop demonstrable IP in the form of a franchise manual - leading to a potential acquirer offering 50% above shareholder expectations. Alongside the above full-time position, I was co-project leader for BeyondBricks.com, a DTI-backed portal supporting a community of over 5000 Internet entrepreneurs. Lead development team of up to 11 people from four companies, from project-startup through to merger with Ecademy in 2003 (then renamed Beermat Ecademy).

• Account Director at Ideal Solutions

  1993 - 2000

  Marketing services firm specialising in the high-tech sector. Role included: business development, project management, marketing strategy development, account team leadership, member of senior management team. - Engaged and managed blue-chip IT sector accounts up to PLC board level (inc. Granada, Borland, MDIS, Dell, ATG, Oracle, Compel and Lotus) - Created and implemented over 150 marketing and CRM projects. - Created unique new media service, winning major clients within first few months. Expertise gained: - new product/brand launches - product upgrade sales & lifecycle management - CRM methodology and data structure design - project management - general management - all marketing disciplines (particularly direct marketing, data profiling, CRM programme development, copywriting, event planning, co-ordinated campaign planning, international trade PR and advertising)

• VP - Global Head of Operations Metrics at Barclays Capital

  October 2010

  Leading global team to drive the transition to automate metrics reporting across global operations including control, regulatory, performance and client-service reporting.

Neil Howlin's Education:

• Henley Management College

  2003 – 2005
  MBA

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