Russell Clarke
ePayments and eCommerce professional. First employee at NetBanx, launched WorldPay and ran it till sale, COO at EarthPort, owned and ran B2B-Payments until sale. Graduate of Unilever's Management and Business Training School (MBA equivalent).
| Headline: | Innocent Bystander |
| Work status: | Living The Dream |
| Industries: | Financial, Internet |
| Skills: | Business, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Product design, Public Relations |
| Next step: | I'm interested in joining a company in a senior capacity, and providing the benefit of my experience in order to lead them to success |
| Location: | London |
| Visas: | Europe |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Consulting opportunities, Employment opportunities, Finding business partners, Joining a startup, Offering Expertise, Professional opportunities, Raising money, Starting a company |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Charity Work |
| Position: | Work experience |
| Time period: | December 2007 - Present |
| Description: | Between ‘career’ jobs, Russell is also involved with a charity who run various projects worldwide, such as medical camps in deprived areas of the world, and aiding the poor and homeless at home and abroad. |
| Employer: | Betfair Ltd |
| Position: | Head of Payments, Risk & Fraud |
| Time period: | December 2006 - November 2008 |
| Description: | Betfair Ltd are one of the world’s leading eGaming companies, responsible for revolutionising the sector when launching its exchange in 2000. It continues to innovate, and is likely by doing so to hold its position for the foreseeable future in an increasingly competitive sector.
Betfair lead the way not only with the exchange and other product innovations, but also in its approach to fraud management, sporting integrity, KYC (Risk Management) and AML, all departments Russell was responsible for, along with that most closely allied to his core competence of course, ePayments. His teams reside in three geographies, providing 24x7 support to nearly a million registered clients. Russell’s key achievements while in post included: - Arrest of several major fraud attempts, and the implementation of short and longer term measures which will mitigate against reoccurrence - Restructure of the various departments so that service to customers, be they internal or external, was improved - Commenced migration of staff from one office to another, without staff loss - Laid plans for arresting a serious churn problem - Mentoring a technically competent, though very inexperienced junior management team - Identifying problems with processes and procedures, and laying plans for addressing same - Working with M&A with regards investment in a major supplier - Investigating various internal systems to identify areas of weakness - Identifying various supplementary payment systems, with a view to assisting the company’s international expansion plans |
| Employer: | Charity Work |
| Position: | Work experience |
| Time period: | December 2006 - November 2007 |
| Description: | Between ‘career’ jobs, Russell is also involved with a charity who run various projects worldwide, such as medical camps in deprived areas of the world. and aiding the poor and homeless at home and abroad. |
| Employer: | B2B Payments Ltd |
| Position: | Managing Director |
| Time period: | December 2004 - November 2006 |
| Description: | B2B Payments is a new electronic payments company intended to satisfy business needs in an all but unexploited market sector.
As proprietor/MD, Russell was engaged upon all pre-startup activities, from the original market research, through preparation of a detailed business plan (including financial projections), to drawing up product requirements, planning infrastructure, acquiring staff, meeting potential clients and partners, and isolating all other required resources. The company was sold to a larger concern at the end of 2006. Further details of this project fall under the terms of an NDA. |
| Employer: | EarthPort plc |
| Position: | Chief Operations Officer |
| Time period: | December 2002 - November 2005 |
| Description: | EarthPort plc is a City based Financial Services company, specialising in ePayments, who also own and operate their own global banking network. This enables the company to process cash and cheque transactions, as well as the less prevalent credit card, at a cost economically viable to clients.
As COO Russell was tasked with directing/managing all development, production and operations functions, which were in severe disarray on his arrival. He was also hired to provide the benefit of his wide expertise to the board. His major achievement during his tenure was the radical improvement of the company’s structure and processes, which before he arrived were seriously impeding the growth and therefore future of the company. As a direct result of the application of his initiatives, the company were able to attract several major clients and partners, including Wanadoo (the largest ISP in Europe), Visa and HP. |
| Employer: | WorldPay plc (Royal Bank of Scotland) |
| Position: | Various Senior Directorships |
| Time period: | December 1997 - November 2003 |
| Description: | WorldPay plc are a Financial Services company, and the largest eCommerce solutions provider in the world outside the US, offering a range of self-developed ePayments products and associated eCommerce services to many thousands of companies large and small.
Russell’s roles during his tenure at WorldPay were many and varied, and encompassed nearly all areas of the company’s business, though he specialised in Customer Services, Production and Operations in latter years. His initial brief was to take what was essentially an R&D company based in the Channel Islands, and turn it into a going commercial concern. Initially this meant sourcing a mainland office and staffing & equipping same, taking the company to launch at the UK’s premier trade show, then growing the business to the position where it could be listed or sold. All of these aims were achieved in very short order by Russell and the teams he created, under his direct management. By the time the company was sold to the RBS, a relationship that blossomed under his management, it had grown from no clients to 30,000, and from no revenue to over £1 million per day, all in just under three years. |
| Employer: | NetBanx Ltd |
| Position: | General Manager |
| Time period: | December 1996 - November 1998 |
| Description: | NetBanx Ltd are a Financial Services company, and were the first eCommerce facilitator to launch in the UK. They specialise in ePayments, but also offer a range of other related products.
As NetBanx’s first employee, Russell was tasked with heading up the commercialisation of what was an embryonic ePayments product (NetBanx were the first to market in the UK). This proved financially successful, and NetBanx survive in an ever more crowded market when many of their contemporaries did not. |
| Employer: | Unilever plc, UPPSG (Largest Operating Group - 70,000 Employees) |
| Position: | Development Manager |
| Time period: | December 1985 - November 1997 |
| Description: | As with any other 'D Listed' Unilever manager, Russell spent much time gaining experience in other group companies both in the UK and abroad. His training while at Unilever, in addition to that at their International Management School, included courses at MIT, the IOD and the IOM. |
| Employer: | University of Cambridge |
| Position: | Computer Operations Controller |
| Time period: | December 1978 - November 1986 |
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