I love building teams, testing ideas and delivering growth.
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Current: Product Director at Web3 Custodian Qredo. Delivering end to end re-platforming from monolith to microservices along with a new UI.
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Previously: Head of Product at Fintech rising star FORM3. Leading a team handling APIs, payment processing, user interfaces and DevOps tooling. Re-platforming to active-active multi-cloud (GCP/Azure/AWS).
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Other projects: UX overhaul and U.S. expansion for Fintech startup Validis, re-platforming and UX for Futrli during a time of 4x growth and reviving an IoT offering for Eurotherm by Schneider Electric.
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Podcasts: I host Problem Busters, Old Fox Young Fox and Gone Workabout
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Key episodes: Becoming a Product Leader and Becoming a Product Company
I look forward to hearing from you.
– Ollie 🙂
KEY SKILLS
Agile (as in flexible)
Listener, thinker, doer.
Enthusiastic
Present, connected, involved.
Leader
Strategist, team builder, mentor.
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Leading groups, managing multiple teams 100%
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End to end product lifecycle experience 95%
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Loves being in front of clients 90%
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Knows it all 15%
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A life-long learner 100%
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Balances data-driven and observed insights 95%
I am fascinated by people, technology
and solving problems (in that order).
RECENT ROLES
- EXPERIENCE
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Product Principal Consultant: 101 Ways
Leading the Product Practice for a successful London-based Consultancy. Working with a range of major clients across BFSI, Retail/eCommerce and TMT sectors.
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Product Director: Platform (Qredo)
Platform lead for a MPC-based Web3 Custodian. Drove the move from monolith to microservices and to API-centric offerings. The role expanded to programme manage the replatforming of server side, Web App, and usage of the…
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Head of Product: Core Platform (FORM3)
Product lead for the Core business line (Shared services, Payment Processing and Website/Internal portal) for FORM3, a fintech scale up in third stage growth. EMEA and NA focus for the payment technology market leader. Founding…
Aug 2000 - Jun 2022 -
Head of Product Interim (Validis)
Interim Product lead for an innovative fintech startup. Delivering standardised accounting data to top 4 accounting and tier 1 banks. UK&I and U.S. focus. Coaching the Product team, building API capacity and future-proofing the SaaS…
Feb 2020 - Aug 2020 -
PM Platform & Integrations (Futrli)
A full-stack Product Management position for a rising star in Fintech for Small Businesses. Responsible for integrations including Xero, QuickBooks, Slack, Gmail, Google Analytics, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google Ads. Also responsible for the actionfeed (newsfeed)…
Aug 2018 - Nov 2019 -
PM SaaS & IoT (Eurotherm by Schneider Electric)
A global role, driving product-market fit for a bold new SaaS offering for this Schneider Electric subsidiary. EcoStruxure Compliance Management Advisor is a mobile and web app product set, with industrial-grade security and an eye…
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Product Marketing Manager Interim (Crunch)
Leading the new Product Development, Marketing and Content teams of an online accountancy and financial services innovator. Second stage growth challenges led to rebuilding the Marketing team, redefining core offering, creating new products and launching…
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Head of Product & Marketing (Xtravirt)
A dual role as Head of Marketing for a leading virtual infrastructure consultancy and Head of Product and Sales for Sonar - a SaaS analytics start-up. Leading a team and developing innovative go-to-market strategies and driving Sales…
2015 - 2016 -
Head of Product (BCI Media Group)
Product lead for the APAC leader in Construction Information. A move to the UK led to a transition into contracting, retained as Head of Product to BCI Media Group. P/L responsibility for a 7 product…
2012 - 2015 - EDUCATION
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CS50 Intro to Computer Science
Harvard University
A hands-on introduction to coding as part of the world's most popular CS course. A practical look at C, Python and more.
2023 - 2024 -
Blockchain Strategy Course
Oxford University
An introduction and deep dive into the opportunities and challenges Blockchains present for business, culminating in a capstone project and business case.
2023 -
Leadership peer coaching
Sycamore Coaching
Enjoyed over a year of remote coaching with Andy Fryer and a group of inspiring cross-industry leaders.
2021 -
Product Leadership Training
Gib Biddle (SVPG)
Completed the SVPG (Silicon Valley Product Group) leadership training workshop series with Gib Biddle, formerly of Netflix.
2019