Lawrence Naested

CTO and Head of Transformation - Collinson Insurance @ Collinson Group

About

Experienced technology and business change leader, Global experience, including extensive technology development and deployment experience internally and for clients. Experience leading transformation programs and developing new business models, project and programme management and PMO experience. Qualified Accountant and Project Manager. Scaled Agile Program Consultant (SPC4), Certified Scrum Master.

Country

City

United Kingdom

Industry

Financial Services

Skill

Change Management, Finance, PMO, Management Consulting, Project Management, Mergers, Business Strategy, Vendor Management, Business Development, Process Improvement, Leadership, Technology Management, Program Management, Business Process Improvement, Strategy, Agile Methodologies, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Management, Scaled Agile Framework, IT Strategy

Experience

CTO and Head of Transformation - Collinson Insurance

Collinson Group

2020-5 - Present · 6 yrs 5 mos

Technology leader for this business, with B2C and B2B products and services. Includes product, delivery, engineering, finance and data platform responsibilities, including regulated activities.

Head of Technology Innovation & Architecture

Collinson Group

2019-2 - 2020-5 · 1 yr 4 mos

Across company transformational role, consolidating technology decisions and sourcing new partners and technology, including new out-tasking arrangements and establishing technical design authorities.

VP - Technology

American Express

2016-3 - 2018-8 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Delivering daily on mission essential and customer critical platforms for digital and traditional customer communications globally; knowledge management; learning and workforce management platforms. Delivered new capabilities using Scaled Agile, Scrum and Kanban models with software engineering delivery teams located across India, UK and the US.

VP - Technology

American Express

2011-6 - 2016-2 · 4 yrs 9 mos

Accountability for international marketing, loyalty and partnerships solutions, including end to end technology delivery for all international loyalty and partnerships products, projects and platforms. Oversight and governance of all international consumer technology expenditure. Transformation to move from a heavily waterfall outsourced model to a mostly in-house scaled agile product centric model.

VP - Business Services & Business Services Technologies

American Express

2008-1 - 2011-6 · 3 yrs 6 mos

A product owner role for the set-up of the new Global Business Services organisation, running PMO, product backlog and investment decisioning, with a team of Project Managers and Analysts located in multiple locations globally. Included pitching and then leading the deployment of Oracle Sub-Ledger ERP program.

VP - Procure to Pay Transformation/Global Commercial Card

American Express

2005-6 - 2008-1 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Program leader for this multi-year, multi-phase business transformation program. Set-up and led teams of project managers and analysts, using Prince2, running across multiple locations globally. Deployed multiple components, training, change management and process re-design across many markets and countries. Developed new go-to-market services and products for new insourcing strategy.

VP - P2P International

American Express

2004-1 - 2005-5 · 1 yr 5 mos

International market transformation and program manager for this multi-year program to replace Procurement, Payables, Contracts and finance platforms. Extensive process redesign, change management and technology delivery across multiple markets.