Sam Cherry

Global Operations Director @Al Futtaim

Investment Analyst🎥 Entertainment✔️ IT💰 Investor & VCPartnerHead of Growth💸 Marketing💼 C-level Executive👍 Sales & BizDevCTO🧨 Consulting🏐 SportsCOO

Board level executive focussed on driving the commercial performance of the businesses, with experience covering Automotive, Mobility, Sport, Private Equity, Data & Technology. Having worked with some of the world's biggest and successful organisations across Europe, America and the Middle East ( including Pfizer, Volkswagen Group, Toyota/Lexus, Volvo, BYD, Stellantis, FIFA, Capgemini, EY, Al Futtaim) I have experience building and leading teams from inside the organisation and also as an external consultant. My roles have encompassed COO, CTO, CDO board level positions so I am comfortable crafting and delivering strategy, getting into the thick of it with running the operations or running full scale restructuring. Importantly I deliver bottom line EBIT and value. People hire me for: - Board level role filling and team setup/enablement - COO/CTO/CDO without the fixed commitment/cost base - Commercial strategy - Digital strategy - M&A advisory and funding (inc. Family Office) - Value creation - Technology delivery programmes - Data programmes & advance analytics - Corporate restructuring and turnaround programmes - Risk consulting - Commercial audits/review programmes