Jeremy Roebuck
Masters Degree In Business Administration from Open University Business School. Independent interim manager with many years general, commercial, banking, finance & payments experience. Currently working on different projects.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Skills: | Business, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Projects |
| Position: | Work experience |
| Time period: | December 2007 - Present |
| Description: | 1. Running project to move an unincorporated charity to Limited by Guarantee status, including:
• Employee consultation under TUPE • Negotiation of legal & regulatory issues (with lawyers’ help) • Contract reassignment • Audit & risk issues 2. Three sustainability projects 3. Start up business in music industry |
| Employer: | Napier University Business School |
| Position: | Visiting Lecturership |
| Time period: | December 1998 - Present |
| Description: | In 1999 I was awarded Visiting Lecturership, Napier University Business School, Centre for Entrepreneurship & I continue to work regularly with Napier. |
| Employer: | The Bridge Centre, Haddington |
| Position: | Chairman |
| Description: | The Bridge Centre, Haddington - a charity running a large community centre & outreach projects with 15 staff and annual turnover £120k. The work of the Centre was highlighted as a model of good practice in March 2007 government inspection report (http://www.hmie.gov.uk/documents/inspection/EastLothianCL... ) |
| Employer: | Haddington Music Festival |
| Position: | Past Chairman, past Treasurer |
| Employer: | ValU Payments |
| Position: | Interim Manager |
| Time period: | August 2007 - November 2007 |
| Description: | Brought in to re-launch an internet payments project which was failing to thrive.
• Significantly contributed to the decision making process for selection of a new payments technology platform (critical to the future success of the project), • Performed role on interim basis ensuring compliance, mitigation of all risks, including fraud, and regulatory / card scheme rule compliance, • Reviewed / rewrote the internal processes (customer take on, risk review, merchant monitoring etc) and the procedures to hand off with technology supplier, • Helped develop long term as well as medium term strategic direction, The project was successfully re-launched in December 2007. Assignment Feedback:“Jeremy was a godsend for us, bringing not only his industry sector knowledge and network of contacts, but also a mature, proactive and flexible results-oriented approach that he applied to all that was asked of him and more. A pleasure both personally and professionally.” Stephen Gibb, Senior Vice President, ValU Payments |
| Employer: | Opticard Payment Services |
| Position: | Chief Operating Officer (Group) & Managing Director (UK) |
| Time period: | December 2005 - November 2007 |
| Description: | Appointed by RBS to ‘sort out’ a problem investment in a technology company operating in the gift card and internet person to person payments space.
At UK level, leadership of the UK team (15) & full UK P&L and sales responsibility (2006 budget = £1.5m sales, £200k loss) I performed a full strategic review as a result of which I successfully challenged the prevailing wisdom (which was to invest further) and led the sale of two profitable parts of the business to two US corporations and the controlled closure of the remainder; saving RBS c. £2m and preserving RBS reputation. Managed the redundancy programme, TUPE, legal & commercial aspects of business sale & closure. Assignment Feedback: I was struck from the beginning of my association with Magex Opticard, of how complete an executive Jeremy was. He could get on top of any technical issue (be it financial, software, personnel, tax etc) very quickly, had a keen commercial sense, as well as a talent for evaluating personnel. Jeremy is something of a wolf in sheep’s clothing; by this I mean that he has the veneer of the venerable, conservative banker (25+ years must do something) but once he is engaged in an issue or business problem he pushes for solutions the way an entrepreneur would. Josh Groves, CEO, Magex Holdings Ltd / Opticard Payment Services |
| Employer: | Royal Bank of Scotland / Nat West |
| Position: | Senior Manager, Royal Bank of Scotland, Retail Direct |
| Time period: | December 1999 - November 2006 |
| Description: | - Working directly for and closely with Finance Director of a £1bn contribution business. Working with the executive & other senior management across RBSG.
- Merger & acquisitions, due diligence & negotiation (including the multi-million £s acquisition by RBS of WorldPay and Virgin One Account) - One-off projects as required - Strategic development of balanced scorecard - Board member Magex Holdings Ltd - Selection & mentoring of graduate entrants |
| Employer: | Royal Bank of Scotland / Nat West |
| Position: | Area Retail Manager, NatWest Scotland |
| Time period: | December 1996 - November 2000 |
| Employer: | Royal Bank of Scotland / Nat West |
| Position: | Various banking, HR, lending roles in NatWest |
| Time period: | December 1976 - November 1997 |
INFORMATION
| Hobbies: | Family life, reading, politics / current affairs, watching rugby, music & hi-fi, technology, running, swimming, cars. |
| Memberships: | Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (FCMI)
Associate Member of The Association of Masters of Business Administration (AMBA). Member of MENSA, the high IQ society |
