Nigel ONeill
Management Consultant & CTO
Experience
Jan 2019 - Present
6 years 2 months United Kingdom
Founder & CEO
Tarralugo
Established a Digital Strategy & Transformation consultancy, specialising in enabling enterprises to effectively leverage and implement digital capabilities. Significant engagements personally delivered, include:
ESG Data and Reporting Platform
- Retained to provide an advisory CTO and Executive Coaching role to a regional ESG Data platform founded by former Goldman Sachs, BHP and MSCI Executives.
- Advised the company on the pivot of their strategy to align their products to the market needs.
- Lead the guided development of their Product & Go to Market Strategy.
Data Aggregation and Visualisation Platform
- Advisory services to an ETL & Natural Language Data Visualisation Platform.
- Delivered a guided redevelopment and pivot of their Product and Go to Market Strategies, redefining their target segments, with a focus upon the customer & addressing customer needs.
Global Creative Agency
- Worked with the Group CTO to define their digital strategy and required operational structure, to effectively enable & support new annuity revenue product lines.
- This included the restructuring of the digital organisation, maturing of operational processes & governance, establishment of in-house Centres of Excellence and the outsourcing & offshoring of specific technology functions.
- Outsourcing vendor evaluation and selection.
- Mentoring & knowledge transfer to leadership team.
Environmental Tech Start-up
- Technology strategy advisory role, helping them to adopt best practices aligned to their scale, needs and their target markets.
- Review of their technology and operations strategy including insourcing v outsourcing, scaling strategy, data monetisation and cyber defence.
Telecoms Outsourcer
- Review of their strategy and operational structure against industry best practice.
Feb 2016 - Jul 2018
2 years 6 monthsChief Digital & Technology Officer, Asia Pacific
CBRE
As a member of the global Digital & Technology leadership team, I was accountable for leading the Digital & Technology organisation in Asia Pacific. This consisted of +300 headcount, supporting +23,500 employees across 14 countries and 80+ offices in the region.
Key attributes of the role included:
- Accountable for Software Engineering & Product Management, Infrastructure & Operations, Cyber Defence & Assurance and Architecture for Asia Pacific.
- Annual budget of +47M USD.
- Headhunted by CBRE.
Key Achievements:
- Lead the Digital Transformation in Asia Pacific.
- Pivoted the focus from Infrastructure & Operations to Digital Enablement of the business.
- Budget moved from being 75% Infrastructure & Operations focused in 2016, to 58% business enablement & innovation focused in 2018.
- Reviewed and restructured the Digital & Technology organisation to enable effective delivery and integration into the business.
- Restructured Infrastructure & Operations to improve the quality of service, consistency of user experience and operating efficiency across the region.
- Grew our in-house software engineering capabilities and talent.
- Established regional Centres of Excellence for software engineering and infrastructure.
- Implemented Agile development and optimised a number of processes in the product management lifecyle to improve quality, speed and user experience. This included automation, DevOps and dedicated Agile Coaches in the CoE.
- Built a dedicated engineering centre in Gurgaon, architecturally designed to meet the specific needs of Agile engineering practices.
- Strengthened Cyber Defence and established a program to achieve ISO27001 certification.
- Established a technology COO function to provide governance, financial & procurement transparency.
- The COO function enabled reinvestment into the department whilst minimising top line budget growth.
- Established a Digital Ecosystem & Scan function to enable early discovery of new and emerging technologies which could either be a partnering opportunity, disruptive threat or acquisition target.
- Digital ecosystem included universities, government departments, venture capital firms & tech start-ups.
- Established a Digital Sales function, to promote digital business solutions & drive digital only revenues.
- Lead the development of new, innovative digital only products and business lines.
- Speaker and panellist at several conferences. Topics included AI, PropTech, innovation & leadership.
- Published several articles in industry and national publications.
Dec 2014 - Feb 2016
1 year 3 months Singapore
Program Manager, Singapore Consolidation Strategy
Standard Chartered
- Overall responsibility and accountability for the delivery of the Singapore Consolidation Strategy.
- SCB had 10,500 headcount in Singapore and four primary office buildings. Program included:
- The design and fit-out of a new office building comprising of five floors, supporting 2,000 headcount.
- Restacks and migrations across four buildings totalling 4,800 end user moves.
- Included 16 move phases, with 8 consecutive weekends of moves and up to 550 users per move.
- Relocation of a data centre to support disposal strategy.
- The introduction of agile workplace practices and supporting technologies.
- Introduction of new end user workplace and collaboration technologies.
- Restack and refresh across remaining estate.
- Feasibility studies and due diligence on subsequent phases which included the build and fit-out of a new building plus further space disposal and consolidation.
- Design & re-engineering of BAU IT support & operating models to improve end user services, increase operating efficiency and reduce Opex costs.
- Delivered against very aggressive timelines and evolving scope due to changes in the business.
- First floor go live achieved within 5 weeks of appointing the Maincon for the new building.
Sep 2013 - Dec 2014
4 months Hong Kong
Program Manager, Hong Kong Consolidation Strategy
Deutsche Bank
- Delivered and wrote the IT due diligence and financial modelling for the right-sizing of the office and the restack of 1,500 trading & non-trading desks in Hong Kong.
- Developed the IT strategy, commercials, implementation plan and socialisation papers for the program.
Jan 2013 - Jul 2013
7 monthsProgram Manager, North Asia, Corporate Real Estate (CRES) IT
Deutsche Bank
- Program Manager responsible the end-to-end delivery of CRES IT Projects in North Asia.
- Projects included office fitouts, office disposals, technical feasibility studies and occupancy strategies.
- Project managed the delivery of the first branch in APAC to implement the Lean Branch Model.
- Responsible for the APAC PMO.
Nov 2010 - Dec 2013
2 years 2 monthsClient Initiative Lead APAC, Corporate Real Estate (CRES) IT
Deutsche Bank
- Accountable for the portfolio of CRES IT Projects across 16 countries, including office fit-outs, relocations, space optimizations, Location Strategies, M&A, Operational Excellence and Due Diligence.
- Total project budget across the portfolio of +€35 million euro.
- Developed the business case & justification for a dedicated CRES IT project management function.
- Developed and implemented new operating and governance models.
- New operating and governance model increased budget assurance, enabling IT RTB teams to focus on RTB operations, increased project transparency, reduced IT out-turn costs by 17% and released capital back to the business through a more rigorous budgeting process and project governance.
- A number of the policies & processes developed in APAC were implemented globally.
- Provided ongoing support and mentoring to the newly established team.
- Provided hands-on, end-to-end project management for projects within the portfolio.
Jul 2010 - Nov 2010
5 monthsProgram Manager, Static Data Platform Integration Analysis
Standard Chartered
- Standard Chartered were undertaking a global risk and compliance program to migrate retail and investment banking to a single static data platform to enable a transparent view of client risk & exposure.
- Program managed a number of work streams and teams in the UK, Singapore and India.
Mar 2010 - Apr 2010
2 months Singapore
IT Strategy Consultant
Deutsche Bank
- Wrote a white paper on Active-Active Data Centres for a Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) conference attended by international regulators.
- The white paper was favourably received by the regulatory audience and commended by the MAS.
Aug 2009 - Feb 2010
7 monthsIT Strategy Consultant
Deutsche Bank
- Developed and wrote the IT infrastructure strategy covering 16 countries, 88 offices and 23,000 personnel.
- The strategy covered people, process and technology.
- The deliverables aligned to DB's business strategy and addressed key business & operational challenges.
- The output incorporated 5 objectives whilst delivering reduced run the bank costs:
- Tertiary DR – mitigation of concentration risk created by consolidation
- Lean Branch Model – reduced time to operation plus reduced set-up & operational costs for branch IT
- Scalability – Ability to provide modular, easily repeatable infrastructure and processes
- Flexibility – Ability to easily adapt to business demands and empowerment of business to control IT
- Mobility – Enablement of HR & CRES workplace of the future programs
- Wrote the Small & Medium Office IT Architecture (SMOA) standards, including the Lean Branch Model.
Oct 2006 - Feb 2016
9 years 5 months Singapore
Executive Director, Asia
ITPM Consulting
- Expatriated to Singapore to establish the Asia operations of ITPM, an IT & Project Management consultancy.
- Opened offices in Singapore (regional headquarters), Hong Kong and India.
- Accountable for creating & executing the APAC business strategy and operating model.
- Defined and implemented process, policies, tools and metrics for ITPM.
- From zero presence in Asia grew the consultancy team, with the associated management and support.
- Negotiated contracts with multiple vendors, strategic partners and clients including Cisco, Barclays, BT, Verizon, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan Chase, SGX, Bank of Singapore and RBS.
- Developed the group business strategy.
In addition to my duties as a Director of ITPM Consulting I also delivered several project and consulting engagements. These included:
Oct 2006 - Mar 2007
6 months United Kingdom
Executive Director, UK
ITPM Consulting
- Created the business plan to support the continued growth of the UK operations.
- Created the sales and marketing strategy with performance metrics.
- Performed the due diligence and created the business plan for the start of operations in APAC.
Mar 2005 - Oct 2006
1 year 8 monthsAccount Director, Financial Markets
Netstore plc
- Headhunted by Netsore's Managing Director to define their propositions to the Financial Services industry, from their portfolio of process & technology outsourcing, security and consulting services.
Feb 2001 - Dec 2004
3 years 11 monthsAccount Manager, Banking & Finance
Energis
- Pro-active attainment of major outsource infrastructure projects within financial institutions.
Mar 2000 - Feb 2001
1 year London, United Kingdom
Account Manager
Dow Jones
- Pro-active development of new business within financial institutions in London & Ireland.
Sep 1998 - Mar 2000
1 year 7 monthsAccount Manager/Major Bids Manager
Darome Teleconferencing Ltd
- Global conferencing service provider targeting major accounts including JPMC, Citi, DrKW and DB.
Sep 1997 - Sep 1998
1 year 1 monthBusiness Development Executive
Darome Teleconferencing Ltd
- Responsible for closing sales via the telephone and appointment setting within the finance industry.
Summary
I am a highly experienced Digital and Technology professional with a strong technology, commercial and international background. Benefiting from excellent communication skills, I am adept at communicating at both a business and technology level.
My experience includes leading large regional Digital & Technology departments for MNC's, executing enterprise-wide transformations, defining & implementing technology strategies, and building consultancy businesses.
Currently, I am based in the UK and have established a new Digital Strategy & Transformation consultancy which helps enterprises to effectively leverage and implement digital capabilities. Prior to this I was based in Singapore and was the Asia-Pacific Chief Digital & Technology Officer for CBRE. In APAC, CBRE had grown through acquisition and organically, resulting in a fragmented technology department not aligned to the business's needs. The impact was slow speed to market, revenue loss, growth of shadow IT, application proliferation & duplication, IP loss, misalignment of investments, disintermediation risk and increasing operating complexity & expenditure.
At CBRE, I lead the digital transformation and restructured the Digital & Technology organisation, with a focus on enabling the business to achieve both bottom & top-line growth.
Languages
English
Native
French
Advanced
Education
Sep 1996 - Jul 1997
University of the West of England, Bristol
BA Hons. · Business Studies · Bristol, United Kingdom
Sep 1993 - Jul 1995
Tiffin School for Boys
Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom · 3 A’ Levels: Geography, English Literature, Biology
Sep 1991 - Jul 1993