Kathryn Whinney

Experience

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  Latham Crossley & Davis

  Jan 1990 - Jan 1994

  Insolvency and Restructuring Professional

  Specialist Insolvency Practice, Chartered Accountants, providing corporate and personal insolvency services, business viability studies and forensic accounting services across UK in all business sectors. Selected by senior partner to develop business in London from start-up to successful boutique practice with annual fee income of over £2.5 million.Managed a varied case load of corporate insolvency work (administrations, receiverships and liquidations) together with feasibility studies for commercial lending (banking clients) and forensic accounting exercises. Involved in high profile insolvency cases: Polly Peck Plc (Asil Nadir) and Maxwell Holdings (Robert Maxwell).Created and managed personal insolvency department, as successful profit centre with high proportion of repeat referral work. Show less

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  Market Data Systems Ltd

  Jan 1994 - Jan 1997

  Co-founder, Managing Director

  Risk management software solutions and market price data collection and analysis systems- Built and managed team of 20+ software developers creating innovative solutions using multiple development languages and multiple database, operating system and hardware platforms.- Led and managed project teams for global investment bank clients, including development and implementation of overnight VAR exposure reporting project for CIBC Toronto and real-time internet-based equity portfolio reporting system for Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt- Created £2M+ company over 24-month period through development of products and international project client base, culminating in successful sale of company in 1996. Show less

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  Jacobson Fund Managers Limited

  Jan 1995 - Jan 2006

  Co-Founder, Chief Operating and Financial Officer

  Award-winning, specialist alternative investment management firm providing investment services to global institutional, fund of fund, pension and private clients.Co-founded business; developed multi-strategy, systematic trading business growing traded funds to $450 million; built and managed operational infrastructure and team supporting investment operations for worldwide client base.Responsible for: Business Development and Leadership, Operational Infrastructure, Financial Management, Compliance and Legal, Client Relations and Due Diligence, Fund Structure and Reporting Show less

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  Dickens Whinney Limited

  Jan 2006 - now

  Finance, Operations and Systems Advisory (Director)

  Providing consulting, advisory and interim support to small to medium-sized organisations. Specialising in strategic, financial, operational and systems solutions, including interim COO and interim CFO positions.

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  Greencoat Capital LLP (formerly Novusmodus LLP)

  Jan 2009 - Jan 2011

  CFO and COO - Fund Advisory

  Sole responsibility to set up financial, operational and regulatory structure for start-up UK Investment Advisor to clean energy and energy efficient investment Dublin-based fund. Worked with Founder CEO and small investment team.

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  Eden McCallum

  Jul 2011 - now

  Operations Director - responsible for re-structuring business from Ltd Company to a mixed-membership LLP, to build business for the future with shared ownership and governance, and creating a capital transaction "exit" for the founders. As Operating Partner held responsibility for Finance, Legal, IT and HR and helped the business to consolidate their position in the European strategy consulting market. Internal operations suffered from a historical lack of investment in systems. Transformed operations and systems by creating an IT roadmap and hiring resources to move towards an automated, integrated professional service management system, including developing an online Portal for Consultant and Project Management and accounting.Improved Management Information systems and reporting. Show less

  • Advisor

    Apr 2019 - now

  • Operating Partner/Director of Operations

    Jul 2011 - Apr 2019
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  V-Nova Ltd.

  Oct 2014 - Jun 2015

  Chief of Staff

  In 2014 V-Nova Limited was a scale-up tech business making waves in the Broadcasting sector with a ground-breaking video compression codec, backed by Sky Italia. Joined the two founder directors at this critical time for the business and helped grow the team from 15 to 70 in the space of 9 months, and prepared for the launch of their first production-level codec at the NAB show in Las Vegas, which won the Best of Show Technology award. Helped the business to strengthen governance, improve legal contracts, bring accounting processes in-house and restructure and consolidate balance sheet to ready it for major growth and recapitalisation. Show less

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  Carv by MotionMetrics

  Oct 2018 - now

  Advisor - Operations and Finance