Position: Business advisor to Samut Ltd for the buy-out of Collateral Trading Ltd
Brief:Assess the implications of a company acquisition, manage the integration process of both companies and reconfigure the financial situation with the view of introducing new funds.
Achievements:
•Performed business analysis of buy-out deal
•Formulated new business plan and strategic evaluation to present to banks, private investors and DTI.
•Evaluated and set new budgetary controls to reduce expenditure and increase revenues for the combined businesses.
•Increased turnover sales and projected profits by 35% by implementing strategy recommendations.
oTargeted turnover increased to £1.8mln from £750k for first year’s trading.
oDelivered Q1 turnover ahead of expectations and business plan strategy forecast.

Brief: Define the group investment strategy and financing structure, and create and manage new agency business to compliment the group’s business objectives.
Achievements:
• Appraisal of property investment opportunities using risk models to determine profitable strategies; including viable financing structures, sales strategies (pre-sales / off-plan) and the overall effect of the company’s investment portfolio.
• Presenting to banks, stakeholders and joint venture partners investment opportunities in accordance with their risk profile and negotiating lending terms to maximise returns.
• Creating and launching SPVs to maximise project yield and return, liaising with professional advisors.
• Actively project managing multiple stages of the business restructuring, implementing critical paths and achieving key milestones.

Brief: Develop sales activity and infrastructure and build up an international client network of hedge funds, investment banks and asset management companies.
Achievements:
• Lead the development and implementation of a stock selection model based on mean reverting arbitrage investments. This model was capable of delivering innovative investment strategies to our clients; increasing commission revenues by 35% and complementing the traditional sales approach.
• Actively managed client relationships and client orders in Europe, the UK and US; as well as generating innovative investment strategies to hedge funds and investment banks where the average business deal was £1 million.
• Actively developed the company’s business strategy from inception to maturity, involving the expansion of the department, accessing new markets and capturing new clients.

Brief: To start-up and manage European equity trading business, and build up a pan-European client and broker network.
Achievements:
• Accountable and directly responsible for the management of 50 traders and $100 million trading books.
• Strategies included risk arbitrage, capital structure arbitrage and long/short.
• Responsible for developing the Scandinavian Sales and Trading department; ultimately responsible for the Telecoms, Media and Technology (TMT) companies in Europe.
• European trading contributed to over half of Knight’s revenues and business activities in London.
• Increased sales and trading revenues by over 30% by proactively targeting more demanding clients and implementing more aggressive pricing strategies

Brief: Enhance Bank’s market share in Scandinavia, offering aggressive trading capabilities and contributing with specialist knowledge of clients and products
Achievements:
• Increased the Bank’s ranking in Scandinavian equity trading from 8th to 5th within an 8 month period
• Applied specialist local knowledge to significantly increased turnover, attracting high volume transactions in key Scandinavian stocks both in Europe and US markets

Brief: Develop trading and sales activity to UK and European accounts
Achievements:
• Enhanced the Banks trading capability from Finland to pan Scandinavian coverage
• Significant knowledge of Scandinavian companies and market sectors, specialising in Telecommunication and Technology stocks
• Developed pan Scandinavian and UK account network
• Developed hedging strategy to compliment market making and trading activities, and introduced ADR trading capacity

Achievements:Regular over-achievement of sales targets on all business areas