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Brian Henderson

CxO leader; business, tech & operations strategist
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    €1,727 / day
  • Experience15+ years
  • Response rate100%
  • Response time1 hour
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Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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  • and around Edinburgh (up to 50km)
  • and around London (up to 50km)
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Brian in a few words
An impactful business, technology and operations strategist and leader with over 35 years’ experience across diverse industry sectors, including Financial Services, Banking, Insurance, Publishing, IT Services, Crown & Government, Cyber-Security, Housing, Professional Services, AV Manufacturing, FinTech/RegTech. An outstanding track record of innovative and effective interventions that have supported material business growth and delivered improved operational margins - all while pragmatically managing relevant risks.

A broad mix of senior leadership roles and extensive consultancy experience across technology, operations, product, digital, cloud, data, change, and cyber-security giving a combination of strategic, commercial, and operational strengths and insights. Able to rapidly understand and diagnose complex issues as well as develop and drive practical plans that deliver results and value for Executive teams and Boards.

Has successfully directly and matrix led teams in the UK, EU, US, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, Australia, and New Zealand, and worked with start-up/scale-up, SME, and large corporate organisations (FTSE100 and FTSE250 sized) in the public and private sectors.
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Leadership · Board Level Skills ∙ Consulting · Strategy · Product Development · IT ∙ Digital ∙ CTO ∙ CRM ∙ Commercial Management · Proposition Development · Programme Management · Software Development ∙ Managing Teams ∙ Process Optimisation · Technology · Ecommerce · Risk and Compliance ∙ M&A · Operations Management · Governance ∙ Transformation ∙ Managing Change ∙ Supply Chain · Risk and Compliance ∙ Business Development ∙ Project Management ∙ Mentoring ∙ Scale-Up ∙ Cyber Security · CXO ∙ COO ∙ CIO
Experience
  • Edina/Torduff Consulting Limited
    Business, Technology & Operations Consultant
    CONSULTING & AUDITS
    November 2017 - Today (7 years)
    London, England, United Kingdom
    Consulting activities for multiple clients in various geographies covering:
    - Interim/fractional COO/CIO/CTO roles
    - IT/digital due diligence reviews for M&A activities
    - Senior Leadership mentoring/coaching
    - Strategic reviews with action plans, plus sponsorship of delivery activities:
    -> IT/Digital
    -> Ecommerce
    -> Architecture - business, infrastructure, application, integration, data
    -> Proposition Design
    -> Product Design/Development
    -> Process Optimisation
    -> Software Design/Development
    -> Infrastructure
    -> Agile Development Practices
    -> Cyber Security/Data
    -> Operating Model/Organisation Design
    -> Operations/Supply Chain

    Industry sectors include: Financial Services, Banking, Insurance, Publishing, IT Services, Crown & Government, Cyber-Security, Housing, Professional Services, AV Manufacturing, FinTech/RegTech.
  • ScotlandIS
    Judge for Young Software Engineer of the Year
    EDUCATION & E-LEARNING
    January 2010 - Today (14 years and 10 months)
    Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
    The Young Software Engineer of the Year awards recognise the best undergraduate software projects, drawn from across all students studying computing science and software engineering in Scotland.
  • Pufferfish
    Chief Operating Officer (COO)
    FILM & AV
    July 2022 - June 2023 (11 months)
    Edinburgh, UK
    Accountability for pre-sales support and resultant delivery of all creative solutions, software development, procurement, system build and logistics to meet customer requirements. Board member.

    Pufferfish has an enviable global client base, including the likes of: BBC, CNN, Disney, Madison Square Gardens, NASA, Aramco, Fortum, Microsoft, Google, IBM, Rolls Royce, Volkswagen/Audi Group, Toyota, AT&T, EE, Coldplay, Turkish Airlines, Saudia Airlines, Heineken.
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Education
  • 8 O-Grade, 5 Higher
    High School
    1986
    Educated under the Scottish system - achieving 8 O grades and 5 Highers (A-Level equivalents - L6 SCQF) with further CPD undertaken within corporate settings - continued learning covering technology-specific skills initially & then furthering into leadership development via a mix of internal & external programmes/partners/coaches.