Paul Meredith Programme Director

Contact +44 (0) 7917 123682 Email: paulmeredith@btinternet.com

Location London/Worldwide LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulmeredith2/

Executive Summary

As a Programme Director delivering Change and Transformation programmes since 2006, I help
Transformation and Change leaders reduce costs, increase revenue and mitigate risks by building and
leading Change, Transformation and Delivery functions.

My teams focus on the People and Process elements as well as the technology. Change and
Transformation are about achieving the business objectives; the technology is an enabler. I bring
people on the Change or Transformation journey, influencing and supporting them to obtain active
buy-in.

I have spent my career in heavily regulated financial services, fintech and consultancy environments,
and have led several rescue missions, turning around failing programmes and delivery functions.

Key Achievements
Deloitte
• Increased revenues by more than £5 million pa by the design and implementation of a new
data analytics service finding errors in finance systems
Omnio Group
• Increased revenues by more than £5 million pa, and reduced delivery costs by more than
£1.5 million pa, by the full lifecycle programme delivery of Banking-As-A-Service (BaaS)
products, Heliocor KYC & AML, Saltedge Open Banking, Netsuite CRM and the Omnicore core
banking platform
Aion Digital (Middle East)
• Increased revenues by more than $5 million pa, and reduced delivery costs by more than $1
million pa, by delivering the BaaS business banking functionality for a greenfield bank in
Dubai, and banking applications in incumbent banks in Kuwait and Bahrain
Bank of Ireland & Post Office Joint Venture
• Increased revenues by more than £15 million pa by the design and implementation of tablet
technology and digital content, selling financial services and leads for regulated sellers in 500
strategic locations
Williams Lea Tag
• Mitigated regulatory risk of more than £120 million, by the turnaround of a failing GDPR
programme across 12 countries, delivered 2 months ahead of plan and 42% under budget

Skills & Capabilities

Delivery
• 95% on-time and within budget delivery over the last 5 years
• Cost savings over £1.5 million pa within 1 year, by implementing streamlined delivery
processes

Rescue missions
• Turnaround success rate of 100% of failing programmes within 6 months over the last 10
years
• Increased revenues by over £15 million pa for rescued programmes within 1 year of
intervention
Commercial Acumen
• Generated additional revenue of over £5 million pa within 1 year through the proposal and
implementation of a new business idea
• Reduced delivery costs by more then USD 1 million pa by identifying and implementing cost
saving measures
Team Building
• 2 delivery functions built from scratch, with team sizes up to 45 people
• Improved team productivity by 20% through effective recruitment and leadership strategies
Stakeholder Management
• Successfully repaired broken stakeholder relationships at the Bank of Ireland & Post Office
Joint Venture, resulting in a step-change in stakeholder satisfaction within 6 months
• Increased stakeholder engagement by 20% within 6 months, through effective
communication and collaboration strategies
International Experience
• I’ve lived in the Middle East and led delivery teams across the region
• At Williams Lea Tag I led the global GDPR programme across 12 countries

Career History - Meredith Associates 2006 – present

Career Break October 2022 – March 2023

• Personal project now completed

Omnio Group - Programme Director, Delivery Director October 2020 – September 2022
• New role created by the CEO after my direct approach detailing how I could add business
value
• Created and led a new Change Management function
• Recruited and led 7 Programme and Project Managers, 7 Business Analysts, and 1 PMO to
achieve faster and more efficient programme delivery
• Turnaround of failing deliveries across multiple programmes
• Designed and implemented business and programme governance and Agile delivery
methodology
• Led a separate team of 30 tech and operational staff supporting key clients on highly
unstable legacy platforms
• MD of a subsidiary business with a brief to close it down, moving clients, suppliers and staff
to the core Omnio business, managing the contractual complexities involved

Aion Digital - Programme Director, Head of Governance & PMO July 2019 – April 2020
• Recruited by the CEO to “bring order to the chaos”
• Turnaround of a failing programme delivery function, driving complex deliveries across
multiple clients in Dubai, Kuwait and Bahrain
• Recruited and led 6 Programme and Project Managers and 1 PMO
• Designed and implemented business and programme governance and Agile delivery
methodology

Williams Lea Tag - Programme Manager May 2018 – December 2018

• Turnaround of the failing global GDPR programme following the managed exit of the
previous resource
Bank of Ireland & Post Office Joint Venture - Programme Manager Nov 2015 – Sept 2017
• Rescue mission where 4 other interims had each resigned after a few weeks, saying “This is
too difficult”
• Fixing of broken supplier relationships
• Influencing of 500 Agency (franchise) owners to actively support the new strategy in their
businesses

Deloitte - Programme Manager June 2014 – May 2015

• Role created by the UK Managing Partner after I approached him with a new business idea
• Design and delivery of a client-facing online data analytics service, where the real value to
Deloitte is the cross-sales opportunities from insights into client data

Capa – Programme Manager February 2012 – February 2014

• Capa is a boutique consultancy
• Delivery of finance programmes at large retailers

Meridian – Programme Manager September 2006 – December 2011

• Meridian is a boutique consultancy
• Delivery of finance programmes in the local authority, legal, retail, manufacturing,
engineering and utilities sectors

NatWest – Senior Manager January 2001 – May 2004

• Team leadership of Business Managers with sales and lending portfolios

Professional Development

• Agile Practitioner, PRINCE2 Practitioner, Scrum Master

Additional Information

▪ Entertained the CEO of the greenfield bank I was building in Dubai, by taking him sky-diving
over the Palm with my team
▪ Supported 160 children to have safer lives and better opportunities, by leading a group of 17
tradespeople and volunteers to renovate an orphanage in Arad, Romania
▪ Treasurer and member of the organising committee for the Kings Langley Carnival, which has
at least 3,000 attendees and raises more than £5,000 pa for local charities