Jen Lothian

Experience

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  British Army

  Sept 1999 - Sept 2000

  Troop Officer, Royal Engineers
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  British Army

  Jan 2004 - Dec 2008

  Captain, Royal Regiment of Artillery

  After commissioning from Royal Military Academy and attending the Young Officer's course in Larkhill, I joined 4th Regiment Royal Artillery in Germany as a Troop Commander. I deployed to Cyprus under the UN and later to Afghanistan on Op Herrick 6. Postings & tours: Germany, UK, Cyprus, Belize, Lebanon, Afghanistan

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  Bank of America

  Aug 2010 - Jun 2014

   Ran EMEA Windows XP to 7 migration, leading a team of 25+ direct and 100 assigned reports to ensure timely delivery of 10 project streams, across 25 locations and 17 countries within $11.1m annual budget  Operated as programme lead for remediation of the audit programme, managing 30+ work streams and, indirectly, 100+ staff, reporting to internal audit and external regulators (SEC, OCC, FSA) in the UK and USA Optimised the EMEA prime brokerage business by reviewing all systems and logic to deliver high-quality data that informed business decisions; drove critical business approach to targeting & pricing clients  Merged legacy Merrill Lynch and Bank of America teams, totalling 45 people across 5 countries, and two verticals, to create a unified, bank-wide 24/7 follow-the-sun support and communication model

  • EMEA Programme Manager, Windows 7 Migration

    May 2013 - Jun 2014

  • Vice President, Client Business Manager EMEA Prime Brokerage

    Apr 2012 - May 2013

  • Global Head of Technology Incident Management: Capital Markets and Wholesale Banking

    Aug 2010 - May 2012
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  Octopus

  Jun 2014 - Apr 2018

   Part of the founding team with a mission to disrupt the Equity Release Mortgage space, incubated by Octopus. Transitioned a high-level, greenfield concept for a later-life mortgage product into a fully functioning business proposition by creating, managing and delivering all business operations; launched to market in < 6 months Built and led a 4-strong team to complete, and maintain in perpetuity, a £5.2m book, including all processe  Built the Group change function, guiding continuous delivery of ~40 concurrent regulatory, technology, data, product and business transformation projects; responsible for on-target delivery of £4m budget

  • Director of Change - Octopus Lifestyles

    Mar 2017 - Apr 2018

  • Head of Delivery

    Jun 2014 - Mar 2017
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  Duco Consulting Ltd

  May 2018 - Jun 2021

  Director
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  Marex Spectron

  Jun 2020 - Nov 2021

  Chief Of Staff
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  DataWollet

  Jul 2022 - now

  Co-Founder/CEO

  At DataWollet we are building the authoratitive source of consumer data with the first consumer centric data wallet.GDPR compliant, accurate data for businesses and AI Agents