Razorfish Capital Ltd (and Razorfish LLP) are companies set up as consultancy companies through which treasury, corporate finance and financial advisory projects are conducted

Assignments have included :-

Sep 2005 – Apr 2007 Interim Treasury Executive for Alliance Boots Plc worked pre/post £11 billion Alliance UniChem Plc merger with Boots PLC (as Group Treasurer departed) to work on debt refinancing and restructuring of joint treasury functions, 3 year finance plans, global banking reviews, year end and monthly reporting, documentation, Russia and China acquisitions

Jun 2005 – Jul 2005 Interim Treasury Executive for Westcon Inc Development & implementation of Board approved pan European FX risk hedging strategy for a $2bn US Multinational organisation

May 2004 – May 2005 Investments Director for Beer & Partners Numerous private equity fund raisings for companies across a wide range of high growth sectors including mobile telephony applications, bioscience, property and technology for Beer (the UK’s largest provider of business angel finance)

Worldwide responsibility for funding, liquidity and risk management across 50 countries. Joined pre IPO to help launch successful offering and issued the company’s first convertible bonds and arranged banking facilities in all major regions

Senior member of M&A team involved in several acquisition and divestments including the acquisition of HQ Global – Regus’ (larger) N. American competitor including raising a US$600m syndicated acquisition facility

Created an Irish finance company to support all inter company lending activities, leasing and franchise operations worldwide

Developed & managed relationships with Venture Capital and commercial bank communities and rating agencies to investigate funding opportunities including asset backed securitisations, secured & unsecured lending, asset sales and divestments. Launched successful Rights Issue in 2003

Installed the company’s first FX and interest rate hedging programme including derivatives by online trading and published board approved treasury policies, procedures and reporting
Implemented enterprise wide targets for working capital management and rolled out a web-based global cash position/forecasting system and corporate procurement card worldwide

Funding of new online stores across Europe and Asia – issued Europe’s largest internet convertible bond and arranged lease finance for large wharehouse facilities in UK and Europe

Developed pan regional centralised payments & receipts transaction processing solutions with banks and card processors and new online products. Responsible for online payment fraud detection and prevention.

Member of International Management Team charged with strategic planning of country roll out and product development and senior team member launching Amazon’s store in France and call-centre operation in the Netherlands

Completed Europe & Asia banking tender and led launch of Amazon branded credit cards.

Regular conference speaker on topics covering the internet and treasury management, international cash management and online payments

Management of Dell’s EMEA Treasury function to support the regional business units in W. & E. Europe, former CIS, Middle East and Africa

Liquidity management – Funding, Cash and Investments and FX risk management including active derivative portfolios

Trade finance and credit management initiatives – factoring, credit insurance, receivables acceleration, bonds and guarantees

Pan regional cash management: shared service centre, bulk payments, lockbox, credit collection tools, purchase & credit card schemes, leasing - vendor and asset finance programmes

Received International media coverage as architect of Dell’s EMU/euro readiness programme: masterminded cross border trading & pricing strategy, product & service compliance and harnessed price transparency opportunities

Raised commercial debt facilities, Euro and US commercial paper programmes and regularly tapped debt capital markets. Issued 4 bonds and doubled the CP Programme size (total debt portfolio averaged £3bn p.a.)

Hedged the FX risk arising from UK and overseas Power investments

Investment and debt portfolio management - cash balances averaged £1bn, investments included FRNs, MTNs, Gilts, Repos and commercial paper. Introduced the use of derivatives and drafted board approved delegated authorities, policies, controls and procedures

Project Finance: drafted the credit agreements for a EUR1bn Portuguese power project involving UK and European bank syndicates and implemented the FX and interest rate risk management strategies for other infrastructure investments in Central & Eastern Europe, Asia , Far East, Australasia and N. America. Leasing – raised asset finance and delivered a rolling programme of lease finance opportunities to complement existing funding sources

Cash management and forecasting for subsidiaries in the UK, Europe and N.American operations and transacted foreign exchange for UK, Far East and European business units (£2bn pa). Implemented global interest risk management strategy using derivative hedging programmes (£500m portfolio). Temporary secondments/assignments were conducted in satellite Treasury centres in Hong Kong, Singapore and Thailand

Cash management, dealing, credit control and treasury accounting