Director Data Science and Digital Innovation@Thermofisher Scientific
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Professional Overview
Dynamic & results oriented, with 25 years of experience setting strategic direction, managing tech services
and operations, and driving business and digital transformation across Life Sciences, Healthcare, Financial
Services, Public Sector, Defence, Technology and Consumer Markets.
Exceptional leadership and interpersonal skills, acting as a partner to CEOs and senior executive teams,
translating the long-term vision into actionable plans, building partnerships with clients, vendors and investors.
A trusted advisor to C-Suite and Board-level stakeholders, providing business insight, and engineering
solutions to objective goals, contributing to growth, performance turnaround, and operational resilience.
Recognised for supporting business enablement, digital mindset, new ways of working, unified data and
next-generation technologies (AI, ML, predictive analytics, cloud platforms, and advanced integration tools).
Ability to build strong relationships, negotiate contracts, and monitor SLAs with external service providers,
ensuring consistent performance and swift issue resolution, whilst successfully delivering on critical projects.
Career Highlights
§ Led technology and commercial due diligence supporting a successful $130m+ US stock market
flotation, taking the lead on managing governance, risk and commercial strategy (MailKey Corporation).
§ Championed the tech due diligence and transfer for TotalTravel's $20m Yahoo acquisition, scaling
architecture and launching a reverse auction service, tripling revenues to $1.5m (TotalTravel).
§ Drove the design, architecture and delivery of Omni, a modern, cloud-based data and analytics platform
created to unify clinical and non-clinical information across a $1bn global clinical supply chain division.
§ Developed a strategy, roadmap, and product management discipline for internal and client-facing
business intelligence & data-sharing solutions, yielding a $50m uplift in sales (Thermo Fisher Scientific).
§ Successfully designed and implemented AI tools toMore...