Contract work to kick start and develop the Tagetik UK Partner Program, including development of strategic alliances with Microsoft and large scale system integrators as well as smaller, reseller CPM consulting organisations. Tagetik provide the next generation Corporate Performance Management solutions, delivering simplicity in complex business scenarios.

I led the marketing, partner and business development for Microsoft’s BI solutions within Western Europe (WE). This involved setting the WE strategy from corporate guidance and guiding the development of the partner ecosystem and tactical marketing plans across 12 subsidiaries, ensuring maximum use of available resources and adherence to messaging, positioning and direction. My role was also responsible for ensuring alignment and leveraging of corporate marketing campaigns around Microsoft Application and Office Platforms.

"Peregrine Systems provide IT Asset Management and Service Management infrastructure solutions that allow IT departments to deliver world class IT services to their parent organisations. I was responsible for the product definition, strategy and delivery to market of Peregrine’s DecisionCenter product, designed to provide IT Performance Management to large organisations."

"Runservicenet are a UK based software start up. They have developed an innovative service oriented development platform, designed to address a new breed of business application combining business process management, information access and collaborative decision-making."

I was solely responsible for the whole of the marketing mix across Norkom’s operations in across Ireland, UK, Benelux, France, Scandinavia and the USA.

"Established in 1998, Norkom Technologies is a leading provider of financial crime and compliance software solutions to the global financial services industry. We enable financial organizations to detect and combat financial crime, control defenses and evolve strategies against fraud, money laundering and other types of financial crime."

Within this marketing leading Business Intelligence, OLAP and Analytic Applications company I managing a team of five product marketers, responsible for the rollout of new software applications and technology products and versions through Europe, Middle East and Africa, working closely with country marketing, sales and pre sales teams.

With a budget of $1.2M and product line P&L, I was responsible for the overall strategic direction, positioning, collateral development, sales training, analys

Responsible for the creation, planning, execution and co-ordination of the European marketing plan across France, Germany, Scandinavia, Benelux, Israel, Italy and Iberia . Responsible for a budget of approx. $1.5M. Included the recruitment and managing of PR, Telemarketing and Direct Mail suppliers. Developed joint marketing initiatives with alliance partners including large consulting companies. Managed team of four people. Responsible for the introduction and ongoing management of CRM system with salespeople. Significantly increased in number and quality of generated leads throughout Europe. Developed European marketing plans and co-ordinated its execution through country marketing services. Product Marketing Manager / UK marketing manager, Gentia Software. When I joined Gentia software (at that time Planning Sciences), there was virtually no marketing activity at all. Set up initial UK marketing and PR, wrote and published via design house full product collateral set including case studies, product brochures and white papers. Played a key role in the preparation and execution of successful launch of Planning Sciences on the US NASDAQ.

My last position at Information Builders was European Product Manager for EDA/SQL, their groundbreaking data access and middle-ware product. Prior positions ranged from telephone hotline support, training, consulting, presales support, product management, marketing and sales for 4GL database and reporting software running across PCs, minis (Wang & DEC VAX), UNIX, IBM Mainframe (CMS & MVS).

Responsible for the installation of hardware and software as part of BA’s office automation project. Conducted training on office software (word processing, spreadsheets and databases) and ran the internal help desk

Quality control laboratory technician. Testing of raw materials and finished products for chemical manufacturer.