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A New Yorker by birth, Larry has worked as an Independent Interim Manager, Consultant and Expert Witness at board level with a portfolio career in Management Consultancy, Executive Search, Expert Witness/Litigation Support and Corporate Finance for a host of Blue Chip and high-growth potential start-up companies in the USA, Europe, Middle East, Far East and Australia.
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Larry works as an Interim Manager with a portfolio career in Management Consultancy, Executive Search, Expert Witness/Litigation Support and Corporate Finance. His clients include a host of blue chip and high-growth potential start-up companies in the USA, Europe, Middle East, Far East and Australia.
He is fluent in German and was the Managing Partner and youngest Prokurist (i.e. Partner with signing authority) of a 120-man Business Management Consultancy based in Germany.
Larry has performed major assignments, many at Board level. His client endorsements give him credit for substantial transformation projects, triple digit savings, and unquestioned expert status. Among Larry’s key client benefit achievements, he counts saving NEXT £30 million on their £100 million outsourcing contract with IBM, and Barclays’ Treasury in New York 20% of their annual headline costs. Larry also provided Expert Witness testimony for 23 days in a landmark UK legal action between GEC Marconi and the London Fire and Civil Defence Authority.
Professional Qualifications
Fellow of the Institute of Directors
Member of the Institute of Management Consultants (Certified Management Consultant)
Member of the Strategic Planning Society
Member of Society of Technical Analysts
British Computer Society Law Specialist Group
Member of the Society for Computers & Law
Education
(Sep 1974 to Jun 1976)
University of Cologne
Graduate Level Studies in Historical & Comparative Linguistics
(Sep 1962 to Jun 1966)
Columbia University
B.A.
CV
Board Level Interim CIO/CTO/Senior Executive/Expert Witness
TRANSLATING STRATEGY INTO ACTION
THROUGH A CLEAR FOCUS ON
EXECUTION, DELIVERY & RESULTS
SUMMARY:
Larry works as an Interim Manager with a portfolio career in Management Consultancy, Executive Search, Expert Witness/Litigation Support and Corporate Finance. His clients include a host of blue chip and high-growth potential start-up companies in the USA, Europe, Middle East, Far East and Australia.
He is fluent in German and was the Managing Partner and youngest Prokurist (i.e. Partner with signing authority) of a 120-man Business Management Consultancy based in Germany.
Larry has performed major assignments, many at Board level. His client endorsements give him credit for substantial transformation projects, triple digit savings, and unquestioned expert status. Among Larry’s key client benefit achievements, he counts saving NEXT £30 million on their £100 million outsourcing contract with IBM, and Barclays’ Treasury in New York 20% of their annual headline costs. Larry also provided Expert Witness testimony for 23 days in a landmark UK legal action between GEC Marconi and the London Fire and Civil Defence Authority.
KEY STRENGTHS:
 Excellent Communicator at all organisational levels in Global 1000 companies
 Multi-disciplined covering planning, finance, risk, design, change, governance
 Ability to exploit IT to deliver business benefits and ensure competitive advantage
 IT expertise in real-time systems, outsourcing, contracts, large projects, litigation
 Methodologically sound yet pragmatic results-focused orientation
 Extensive international/multi-cultural experience on 4 continents
 Board level credibility with Global 1000 companies internationally
 Highly motivated, reliable, efficient, effective and accountable
 Co-operative, proactive, team-oriented leadership style
RECENT ASSIGNMENTS:
IT Delivery Manager/Staff Consultant on $28 million 150 person pioneering cross-border (Germany-Switzerland) project in the Life Insurance sector based in Zürich, Switzerland, including all planning, budgeting, IT design, risk/governance, staff coaching/mentoring, stakeholder and change management (Project language was German). Engaged as an Expert Witness for a C$5 million Arbitration between a Software Supplier and one of Canada’s largest Banks, based in Toronto, with further work in both Vancouver and London.
KEY SKILLS:
 Programme/Project Management for Large/Complex/International Projects
 Board Level/Staff Senior Manager/Strategic Consultant/Task Force Leader
 Formulation, Leadership and Management of Strategic Business Change
 Significant experience in large scale organisations
 Broad understanding of complex IT environments
 Core Expertise in the design, development & delivery of real-time systems
 Outsourcing Specialist/Contract Negotiator/Re-Negotiator
 Expert Witness for High-Value/Seminal IT Litigations Internationally
 Executive Search/Recruitment Experience in IT/Finance/E-Commerce
 Fund-Raising Network in $10m - $25m bracket for IT-led Start-ups
 Fluent in written and spoken German, good French, some Italian/Spanish
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE/EXPERTISE:
More than 15 years in Financial Services internationally on both Wholesale and Retail sides, with especial expertise in Treasury, Trading, Electronic Payments, Straight-Through-Processing (STP), Real-Time Systems; 5 years in Aerospace/Defence (USA); 5 years in Retail (USA, UK), 10 years as Expert Witness for high value IT Litigations internationally; 5 years in Automotive (Germany/UK); exposure to various other industry sectors.
SUMMARY OF SELECTED ASSIGNMENTS:
• Interim CIO to Siemens for Total Systems Support (News International/Rupert Murdoch)
• Interim Head of Systems Architecture for Retail Banking (Midland)
• Interim Deputy Project Director for Major (£500m) Retail Banking Automation Project (Midland)
• Interim Head of Information Technology for Wholesale Banking Post “Big-Bang” (Midland Montagu)
• Development of an International Network Connectivity Strategy for STS-400 (S.W.I.F.T.)
• Interim Manager of a Global Treasury Systems Architecture Group (Standard Chartered Bank)
• Design of Corporate Information Architecture Organisation & Platform (Standard Chartered Bank)
• Systems Audit/Radical Performance Enhancement for New York Treasury (Barclays/John Spencer)
• Development of Global Trading Information Flows and Markets Strategy (Barclays & BZW)
• Real-Time/Command/Control Expert Witness and Litigation Support (GEC/Marconi/Lord Weinstock)
• Major BPR Project Definition for Sales, Marketing & Consultancy (AT&T/GIS(NCR))
• Preliminary Systems Assessment for Strategic Planning/Globalization of Treasury (AT&T Treasury)
• Interim Board Level Executive: Managed & negotiated £30m saving on £100 million outsourcing contract with IBM (NEXT/D Jones S Wolfson)
• Interim Deputy Treasurer: Analysed & implemented 20% saving in annual headline costs for New York Treasury (Barclays Bank/A Buxton)
• Interim Chief Acquisition and Funding Manager for an e-Commerce Start-up, leading more than 20 Acquisitions over a three year period
• Interim IT Delivery Manager/Staff Consultant on $28m German/Swiss Insurance Implementation (ZFS/Switzerland/Hans Peter Schefer, Lukas Weber, Thomas Buess)
• Engaged as an Expert Witness for a C$5 million Arbitration between a Software Supplier and one of Canada’s largest Banks (instructed by Insurer Hiscox)
QUALIFICATIONS
Fellow of the Institute of Directors
Member of the Institute of Management Consultants (Certified Management Consultant)
Member of the Strategic Planning Society
Member of Society of Technical Analysts
British Computer Society Law Specialist Group
Member of the Society for Computers & Law EDUCATION
1950-58 Corpus Christi Grammar School, New York
1958-62 Bronx High School of Science, New York
1962-66 Columbia University, New York - B.A.
1966-68 Juilliard School of Music, New York
1973-76 University of Cologne, Germany
1975-76 University of Bonn, Germany
1975-76 Cambridge University
LANGUAGES: Fluent German; Good French; Basic Italian and Spanish.
OVERSEAS EXPERIENCE: USA, UK, Germany, Belgium, Greece, Norway, Hong Kong, Russia, Switzerland, Austria, Middle East, Africa, Australia, Canada
PERSONAL: Married with 3 children; Leisure interests: Flying; Sailing; Opera; Travel; Food & Wine; Based in South East UK, but used to working weeks/months abroad
NATIONALITY: Irish
AVAILABILITY: Immediate
MEMBER OF THE:
25April2007
Institue of Business Consulting
Categories & Skills
Administration Support
Categories
Skills
- English (Languages)
- Excel (Microsoft)
- French (Languages)
- German (Languages)
- Italian (Languages)
- Letter Writing
- Microsoft
- PowerPoint (Microsoft)
- Spanish (Languages)
- Word (Microsoft)
Education and Research
Categories
Skills
- English (Languages)
- French (Languages)
- German (Languages)
- IT (Further Education)
- Italian (Languages)
- Language & Linguistic Research (Further Education)
- Law (Further Education)
- Linguistics (Further Education)
- Numeracy (Further Education)
- Spanish (Languages)
Finance & Accounting
Categories
Skills
- £10M and over (Project Management - Project Value)
- Acquisitions & Mergers (Banking)
- Area of Expertise (Banking)
- Big 4 Practise (Project Management - Organisation Experience)
- Budgeting (Accountancy)
- Business Impact Analysis (Project Management)
- Business Plan Creation (Financial Consulting)
- Business Systems Implementation (Project Management)
- Change (Project Management - Processes)
- Change Management (Project Management)
- Communication All Levels (Project Management)
- Consultancy Practise (Project Management - Organisation Experience)
- Corporate Finance (Banking - Job Level)
- Corporate Finance (Financial Consulting)
- Cost Control (Accountancy)
- Cost Reduction (Accountancy)
- Design (Project Management - Processes)
- Disaster Recovery Plan (Project Management)
- Due Diligence (Banking)
- English (Languages)
- Excel (Project Management - Microsoft)
- Financial (Accountancy - Reporting)
- Financial Consulting
- Financial Management (Financial Services)
- Financial Planning (Financial Services)
- Financial Services (Accountancy - Sector Experience)
- Financial Services (Banking - Sector Experience)
- Financial Services (Financial Services - Sector Experience)
- Financial Systems (Project Management)
- Flotations (Banking)
- Forex And Money Market (Banking - Job Level)
- French (Languages)
- FTSE Listed (Project Management - Organisation Experience)
- Full Project Lifecycle (Project Management)
- German (Languages)
- Insurance (Accountancy - Sector Experience)
- Insurance (Banking - Sector Experience)
- Insurance (Financial Services - Sector Experience)
- International Experience (Project Management - Organisation Experience)
- Italian (Languages)
- Job Level (Banking)
- Job Level (Project Management)
- Joint Ventures (Project Management - Organisation Experience)
- Key Performance Indicators (Accountancy)
- Large Company - UK (Project Management - Organisation Experience)
- Large Team (10+) (Accountancy - Management Skills)
- Leadership (Project Management)
- Life and Pensions (Insurance)
- Listed Company - Other (Project Management - Organisation Experience)
- Listed Company - US (Project Management - Organisation Experience)
- Man Management (Project Management)
- Management (Accountancy - Reporting)
- Management Skills (Accountancy)
- Managing Suppliers (Project Management)
- Manufacturing (Banking - Sector Experience)
- Manufacturing (Financial Services - Sector Experience)
- Mentoring (Project Management)
- Microsoft (Project Management)
- Multinational Company (Project Management - Organisation Experience)
- Multiple Projects (Project Management)
- Negotiation
- Offshore Development (Project Management)
- Operational (Banking - Risk)
- Organisation Experience (Project Management)
- Performance Measurement (Banking)
- Powerpoint (Project Management - Microsoft)
- Prince2 (Project Management)
- Private Sector (Project Management - Organisation Experience)
- Processes (Project Management)
- Project (Project Management - Microsoft)
- Project Accounting (Accountancy)
- Project Director (Project Management - Job Level)
- Project Initiation Document (Project Management)
- Project Management (Banking - Job Level)
- Project Office Management (Project Management)
- Project Support (Project Management)
- Project Value (Project Management)
- Reporting (Accountancy)
- Restructuring (Project Management)
- Retail (Accountancy - Sector Experience)
- Retail (Banking - Sector Experience)
- Retail (Financial Services - Sector Experience)
- Risk (Banking)
- Sector Experience (Accountancy)
- Sector Experience (Banking)
- Sector Experience (Financial Services)
- Service Centre (Project Management)
- SLA's (Project Management)
- Spanish (Languages)
- Technology (Accountancy - Sector Experience)
- Technology (Banking - Sector Experience)
- Technology (Financial Services - Sector Experience)
- Telecoms (Accountancy - Sector Experience)
- Telecoms (Banking - Sector Experience)
- Telecoms (Financial Services - Sector Experience)
- Trader (Banking - Job Level)
- Treasury (Banking - Area of Expertise)
- Treasury Foreign Exchange (Accountancy)
- Word (Project Management - Microsoft)
HR/Training & Development
Categories
Skills
- Analysis (Corporate/HR Strategy - Organisation)
- Business Performance (Corporate/HR Strategy)
- Change Management (Corporate/HR Strategy)
- Coaching & Mentoring (Training & Development)
- Communication Strategy (Corporate/HR Strategy)
- Corporate Governance (Corporate/HR Strategy)
- Design (Corporate/HR Strategy - Organisation)
- Development (Corporate/HR Strategy - Organisation)
- English (Languages)
- Executive Development (Training & Development)
- French (Languages)
- German (Languages)
- Interim Management (Corporate/HR Strategy)
- Italian (Languages)
- Leadership (Corporate/HR Strategy)
- Leadership Development (Training & Development)
- Mergers & Acquisitions (Corporate/HR Strategy)
- Organisation (Corporate/HR Strategy)
- Outsourcing Strategy (Corporate/HR Strategy)
- Private Sector (Corporate/HR Strategy)
- Restructuring (Corporate/HR Strategy - Organisation)
- Spanish (Languages)
- Team Building (Training & Development)
- Team Building (Talent Management)
IT & Internet
Categories
Skills
- £10M and over (Project Management - Project Value)
- 50 Plus (Project Management - Staff (numbers))
- Analysis (IT Management - Business Process)
- Application Migration (Project Management)
- Automation (IT Management - Business Process)
- Budget Control (Project Management)
- Budget Management (IT Management)
- Business Impact Analysis (Project Management)
- Business Process (IT Management)
- Change (Project Management - Process)
- Change Management (Project Management)
- Change Management (IT Management - Business Process)
- Communication All Levels (Project Management)
- Consultancy (IT Management)
- Contract Management (IT Management)
- Coordination (IT Management - Project)
- Design (Project Management - Process)
- Design (IT Management - Process)
- Excel (Project Management - Microsoft)
- French (Foreign Languages)
- German (Foreign Languages)
- Implementation (IT Management - Project)
- Improvement (IT Management - Business Process)
- Italian (Foreign Languages)
- ITIL
- JAD (Project Management)
- Leadership
- Man Management (Project Management)
- Management (IT Management - Project)
- Managing Suppliers (Project Management)
- Mentoring (Project Management)
- Microsoft (Project Management)
- Multinational Organisation (Project Management)
- Multiple Projects (Project Management)
- Negotiation
- Offshore Development (Project Management)
- OGC Gateway Reviews (Project Management)
- Outsourcing (IT Management)
- PowerPoint (Project Management - Microsoft)
- PRINCE2
- Private Sector (Project Management)
- Process (Project Management)
- Process (IT Management)
- Procurement (IT Management)
- Programme Management
- Project (Project Management - Microsoft)
- Project (IT Management)
- Project Initiation Document (Project Management)
- Project Management (Project Management)
- Project Office Management (Project Management)
- Project Support (Project Management)
- Project Value (Project Management)
- Re-engineering (IT Management - Business Process)
- Risk Management
- Senior Management (IT Management)
- Software Evaluation (IT Management)
- Software Selection (IT Management)
- Solutions Delivery Management (IT Management)
- Spanish (Foreign Languages)
- Staff (numbers) (Project Management)
- Strategy Management (IT Management)
- Subcontractor Management (IT Management)
- Systems Management (IT Management)
- Team Leadership (IT Management)
- Technical Management (IT Management)
- Word (Project Management - Microsoft)
Legal
Categories
Skills
- Acquisitions
- Contracts
- English (Languages)
- French (Languages)
- German (Languages)
- Italian (Languages)
- Patent/IP/Trademark Law
- Spanish (Languages)
Management Consultancy
Categories
- Business Consulting
- Financial Consulting
- IT Consulting
- Languages
- Marketing Consulting
- Project Consultancy
Skills
- £10M and over (Project Consultancy - Project Value)
- 50 Plus (Project Consultancy - Staff (numbers))
- Arbitration
- Back-Office Re-Engineering (IT Consulting)
- Banking (Project Consultancy)
- Budget Control (Project Consultancy)
- Business Development (Business Consulting)
- Business Impact Analysis (Project Consultancy)
- Business Plan Creation (Business Consulting)
- Business Plan Creation (Marketing Consulting)
- Business Plan Creation (Financial Consulting)
- Business Plan Creation (Project Consultancy)
- Business Planning (Business Consulting)
- Business Reengineering (Business Consulting)
- Change Management (Project Consultancy)
- Communication All Levels (Project Consultancy)
- Communications Strategy (Marketing Consulting)
- Company Sale
- Company Start-up
- Company Turn-round (Business Consulting)
- Competitive Analysis
- Contract Management
- Contracting Out (IT Consulting)
- Corporate Finance (Financial Consulting)
- Corporate Governance
- Cost Reduction
- Disaster Recovery
- Downsizing (Business Consulting)
- e-Business Development
- English (Languages)
- Excel (Project Consultancy - Microsoft)
- Excel (Microsoft)
- Feasibility Studies (Business Consulting)
- Financial Services (Project Consultancy)
- Flotation
- French (Languages)
- Full Project Lifecycle (Project Consultancy)
- Gap Analysis (Business Consulting)
- General Management (Business Consulting)
- German (Languages)
- Insurance (Project Consultancy)
- Interim IT Director (IT Consulting)
- Interim Managing Director (Business Consulting)
- Interim Operations Director (Business Consulting)
- International Outsourcing (IT Consulting)
- Internet (Project Consultancy)
- Investment Bank (Project Consultancy)
- IT Staff Management/Motivation (IT Consulting)
- IT Strategy Development (IT Consulting)
- Italian (Languages)
- ITIL Consultancy (IT Consulting)
- JAD (Project Consultancy)
- Joint Ventures
- Large Company - UK
- Leadership (Project Consultancy)
- Man Management (Project Consultancy)
- Managing Suppliers (Project Consultancy)
- Mentoring (Project Consultancy)
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Microsoft (Project Consultancy)
- Microsoft
- Multi-National Organisations
- Negotiation
- Non Executive Directorships
- Offshore Development (Project Consultancy)
- OGC Gateway Reviews (Project Consultancy)
- Patents/Trademarks (Business Consulting)
- Powerpoint (Project Consultancy - Microsoft)
- PowerPoint (Microsoft)
- PRINCE2 (Project Consultancy)
- Process Design
- Procurement/Purchasing (Business Consulting)
- Profit Improvement
- Programme Management (Project Consultancy)
- Project (Project Consultancy - Microsoft)
- Project (Microsoft)
- Project Initiation Document (Project Consultancy)
- Project Management (Project Consultancy)
- Project Office Creation (IT Consulting)
- Project Office Mgmt (Project Consultancy)
- Project Strategy Development (IT Consulting)
- Project Support (Project Consultancy)
- Project Value (Project Consultancy)
- Re-structuring
- Retail Banking (Project Consultancy)
- Risk Analysis
- Risk Management
- Software Appraisal (IT Consulting)
- Spanish (Languages)
- Staff (numbers) (Project Consultancy)
- Strategic Analysis (Business Consulting)
- Systems Analysis
- Systems Implementation (IT Consulting)
- Systems Planning/Design (IT Consulting)
- Venture Capital
- Word (Project Consultancy - Microsoft)
- Word (Microsoft)
- Workshop Management (Project Consultancy)
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