Description

Senior strategic and operational leader with 15+ years’ experience advising Boards and Executive Committees on growth, transformation, and sustainability in complex organisations.

I bring a rare dual background: senior leadership in global financial institutions, combined with first-hand experience as a practising, published artist working with cultural institutions and creative organisations.

I specialise in interim and project-based leadership roles where strategic clarity, financial discipline, and human-centred leadership are required to stabilise, transform, or reposition organisations — particularly at the intersection of culture, creativity, and complex operations.

Languages

English
Native or bilingual
French
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

London (up to 50km)

BNP
Director of Strategy & Strategic Investments
January 2012 - January 2019 (7 years)
• • Provided decision-making support to senior management with focus on growth & costs synergies
• • Managed internal M&A processes and evaluated external acquisition/investment opportunities
• • Articulated and communicated Global Markets strategy, ensuring implementation and tracking
• • Advised ExCo members on business issues and client strategy; led benchmarking exercise
• • Line-managed Strategy team members in Lisbon
BNP Paribas
Global Business Manager, Electronic Markets – Fixed Income
January 2010 - January 2012 (2 years)
• • Reported directly to senior MDs, managing business functions and a team of four
• • Formulated and communicated electronic markets strategy
• • Sponsored MIS tool development and managed €20m IT programme (supporting €150m revenues)
• • Delivered regulatory approvals enabling proprietary platform roll-out across 40+ countries
BNP Paribas Securities Services
Chief of Staff to CEO UK
January 2008 - January 2010 (2 years)
• • Supported CEO in day-to-day management, strategy, and communications
• • Coordinated external growth agenda and cross-selling initiatives
• • Designed custody product for hedge funds post-2008 crisis