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