Bill
Name
Bill
Position
Board Advisor
Location
City of London/Essex
Big Business Experience
Visa
First Data
ACI Worldwide
Transaction Network Services
Small Business Experience
Platinum Property Partners
Twinsoft UK
Epic Lettings
The Keep Calm Guy
Interim/Consultancy
Summary
Bill has a broad range of experience gained from multiple business interests. He has started and continues to run a successful property investment and development business, he is a FinTech investor, management interim/consultant, a qualified and accredited Executive Coach and Mentor, and a published author.
His first book How to keep calm and carry on describes his personal experiences of surviving a suicide bomb attack, and will be followed by a business book, Change Leadership, to be published shortly. Bill is now focused on ‘giving back’ by coaching, mentoring, and advising individuals and SME businesses that are scaling-up. This includes volunteer work with the Cranfield Trust and the School for Social Enterprise.
Bill’s early career was in Technology and Financial Services (Payments) where he has gained extensive senior leadership experience in operational performance including project and service delivery, as well as corporate governance.
Qualifications
- AoEC: Executive Coaching
- Cranfield School of Management: High Performance Leadership
- BSc Mathemetics & Computer Science
Key areas of Expertise
- Financial Services & Technology (Payments)
- FinTech scale-up
- Leadership development
- Business transformation
- Change management
- Property development & investment
- Business start-up
- Scaling-up business and leadership
- Corporate Governance
- Qualified and accredited executive coach
Experience
- Leadership development
- Executive coaching & mentoring
- Corporate governance
- Business transformation
- Change Management
- Operational Performance
- Service Management & Delivery
- Project & Programme Delivery
- Strategic supplier management
- Business start-up
- FinTech investor
- Property Investment & Development
- CEO Mentor for Cranfield Trust (charity sector)
- Entrepreneur mentor for School of Social Enterprise