Patrick H.

Leadership Board member accountable for leading scale-up of Product and Technology teams for the Collecting Group, delivering multi-channel product platforms underpinning customer growth and driving sales revenue in the group brands. Professional Highlights ▪ Delivering and operating global multi-tenant platforms unpinning multi-lingual, multi-brand, multi-currency best in class customer experiences. ▪ Integrating analytics with product lifecycle to enable data-driven decisioning and margin optimisation on-site and in CRM. ▪ Reducing time to value; optimising delivery, platforms and business processes, moving from long lead time for change to releasing value multiple times daily. ▪ Reducing cost and risk; improving return on investment through strategic change to drive velocity, stability, compliance and resilience.

Launched in 2019 Collecting Cars is the leading auction platform dedicated to buying and selling iconic, sporting, and collectable cars around the world. With over £500m in vehicle sales turnover, the business is transforming and disrupting the traditional auction industry.

Watch Collecting is a global auction platform devoted to prestige and luxury watches of all eras. It is the world’s fastest growing online watch auction platform.

Leadership Led Sky Betting & Gaming’s teams of 100+ with £5M per year business as usual (BAU) budget across data engineering, delivery, operations, platform, architecture and data science. Collaborated with senior technology leadership team to drive business strategy and execution. Oversaw large-scale transformation of data function and AI capabilities, new operating models, and built and migrated new Cloud data platforms. Professional Highlights ▪ Transformed and scaled up verticals enabling business growth into tech unicorn and trade sale. ▪ Developed from the ground up permanent teams with operations, engineering, and delivery governance frameworks and delivered data science, machine learning and AI applications, ▪ Led 3-year transformation programme from proof of concept (POC) to design, build, and the migration of complex on-premise technology stack to Google Cloud platform.

Leadership Oversaw transformation of infrastructure business unit and 300+ infrastructure services. Directed 10 teams of ~80 reports providing industry-leading availability, durability, and scalability for mission-critical services. Guided GDPR, PCI-DSS, Gambling, and other relevant compliance standards, including directing service governance and effective vulnerability and risk management. Facilitated stakeholder engagement, fostered customer service and team collaboration to resolve technical and non-technical challenges. Professional Highlights ▪ Coordinated roadmap budgets of £15M+ for Sky Betting & Gaming. ▪ Oversaw implementation of software-defined datacenter builds, including networking infrastructure to deliver PCI-grade environment and IT governance controls to satisfy audit compliance. ▪ Supervised GDPR compliance for infrastructure services and supporting frameworks. ▪ Led building from the ground up new data centres to support resilience for disaster recovery in a constantly changing production environment with minimum disruption to service. ▪ Executed overall operational delivery of private and public cloud infrastructure systems across mobile and web channels.

Leadership Cultivated vision and executed strategy for operational technology roadmap, while providing clear communication on operational progress to translate technology to business. Led ~8 internal service engineering team integrating external Agile development and programme management teams to roll out new video on-demand platform. Professional Highlights ▪ Facilitated business-critical ISO27001 and other related compliance requirements within an ITIL-governed environment to deliver best-in-class service to customers. ▪ Guided in-house transition of services and supported consultancy and training for customers teams on their platforms. ▪ Surpassed KPIs despite rapid scaling challenges and pace of delivery. ▪ Achieved leading partner status by operating best performing services and rolling out of video-on-demand platform across Europe.