Areas of expertise
I help leadership teams close the gap between ambitious strategy and the operational reality that either delivers or destroys it.
- Governance structures that cannot support audit, compliance, or investor scrutiny
- Operational bottlenecks that make scaling unpredictable and dependent on key individuals
- Leadership cultures where accountability is absent and critical data goes unrecorded
- Executive teams that are misaligned with the commercial and technical demands of growth
- Organisations approaching funding rounds or compliance milestones without the internal controls to pass them
- Stagnation rooted in structural people problems that generic leadership hires will not fix
I work with founders, boards, and search firms to diagnose what is actually broken - then build the operational architecture that makes growth repeatable.
About Me
I am Damien - an Operating Partner, COO, and CTO who aligns commercial, technology, and operational systems so that growth actually delivers.
Founders, boards, and search firms bring me in as a fractional executive to close the gap between documented strategy and hard-nosed execution, across agile scale-ups and large enterprise environments alike. I turn opaque, bottlenecked organisations into transparent, KPI-driven operations with real accountability at the leadership level.
The result is a repeatable operational architecture that scales independently of any single point of failure - and a business that can secure funding, pass compliance audits, and expand partner ecosystems with confidence.
My track record includes sourcing 50 million GBP in fintech funding for AEVI, launching a greenfield mobile money engine in Nigeria, and managing a 400 million EUR content portfolio alongside a 100 million USD developer fund for a global telecoms leader.