INTRO Entrepreneurial business builder with 22 years of financial industry experience. I have been doing frontline sales and business development of outsourced research and analytics services in the European market since 2005, first for Amba Research and as of January 2014 for the merged entity ...more

INTRO Entrepreneurial business builder with 22 years of financial industry experience. I have been doing frontline sales and business development of outsourced research and analytics services in the European market since 2005, first for Amba Research and as of January 2014 for the merged entity Copal Amba, global market leader with 2,700 employees and 200 institutional clients. As of December 2014, Copal Amba is a fully-owned subsidiary of Moody's Analytics, operating under the brand name Moody's Analytics Knowledge Services. As of November 2019, following the successful management buyout of the company from Moody's, we have rebranded the business to Acuity Knowledge Partners. The buyout is backed by Equistone Partners Europe Limited. SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE: • 22 years of international financial industry experience of which 15+ years in sales. Entrepreneurial, used to building business from scratch and beating sales targets. • Since 2005, doing European enterprise level sales of investment research and analytics outsourcing including front office (equity, credit/fixed income and quantitative research, sales&marketing) and middle office-related (compliance, performance, risk) services. • Successfully built portfolio of strategic accounts and relationships with European network of decision makers in top-notch investment banks, commercial banks, institutional asset managers, private banks, hedge funds and pension funds. • Other experience includes hedge fund sales in Europe and the Nordics and project and product management across asset classes on both buy-side and sell-side. Have also worked as a journalist and a teacher. • Result-driven and organised team player. Outgoing personality. Speaks six languages fluently. Has worked in both developed and developing countries.less