Andy has over 15 years’ experience working in senior management, operational and leadership roles in the offshore Financial Services industry and within HM Forces, across the areas of strategic planning, programme and project management, process improvement and delivering Business and technology-enabled change. Andy also is experienced in Corporate Development, Business Integration / Separation planning and execution and the full lifecyle of the M&A deal process; having helped lead the M&A function for a FTSE250 listed Business. 

Most recently, Andy has held a succession of Chief Operating Officer (COO) / Head of Operations roles for several large, global financial services institutions within the Fund, Corporate and Private Wealth segments – leading those Businesses to review their operating models and resourcing capabilities, their operational risk and governance frameworks, their operating structure, processes and technology and conceive and drive programmes to create efficiencies through better ways of working, incl. Digitisation, continuous improvement and technology enablement.

Andy is also an experienced GDPR and Data Protection practitioner, having held a number of Data Protection Officer appointments and delivered several GDPR Readiness Programmes, plus has extensive experience of managing a broad and diverse range of other operational responsibilities, incl. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, operational control audits (e.g. ISAE3402 audits), Outsourcing and Supplier Management, Facilities, Premises and Estate Mangement and a variety of “front”, “middle” and “back office” operational functions and Teams (incl. Client on-boarding, document & records management, accounting, Regulatory Reporting, Business Systems and Support and Quality Assurance).