Ges Richmond

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ABOUT GES RICHMOND

Ges has 26 years of blue-chip transformation delivery experience successfully fulfilling leadership roles in significant change programmes across the retail banking, insurance, investment and pharmaceutical sectors both as a permanent member of staff and as a consultant. Ges has led high profile and challenging programmes that reflect the ongoing disruption of the UK retail finance sector. Ges is experienced in the full lifecycle from initial business case, target operating model development and supplier selection through to post implementation command and control. Ges works effectively with stakeholders at the highest levels including C-suite executives of clients, third-parties, senior civil servants and government ministers. Ges has also proven that he can lead and integrate existing teams and build teams from scratch in a wide variety of environments and cultures; allowing them to effectively evaluate, design and implement the necessary operational and systems changes required to deliver customer and corporate benefits. Ges is widely respected as an expert delivery manager with character and integrity and has been proven successful across a broad spectrum of programmes and portfolios. Ges is Prince 2 and MSP qualified and has overseen and integrated agile and waterfall delivery environments. Ges also has experience of successfully completing assignments in operational efficiency, organisational design, outsourcing and benchmarking. Ges’ key strengths are:• Excellent and versatile business change professional with 26 years Blue Chip experience gained within industry and also as a management consultant.• A proven record of successfully taking ownership of, understanding, and leading complex, multi-functional large-scale transformation programmes and portfolios across IT and Business Change.• Making a rapid positive difference to in-flight programmes and portfolios.