Andre Clark

• Accomplished international executive leader, experienced in creating, developing and leading high-performing teams across the UK, North America, South America, China, Asia Pacific and the Middle East.
• Used to operating at a very high bar in culturally and geographically diverse settings, including dynamic growth scale-up SMEs (200+ headcount) and large global corporates (2,500+ headcount) and where turning strategy into execution is critical to reaching enterprise goals.
• Multiple sectors: Technology (FinTech and AdTech); Private Equity; Media (rights, monetisation and marketing); Data Intelligence; Insurance; Underwriting; Corporate Finance and Investment Management.
• Comprehensive experience in Board, ExCom, RiskCom, RemCom and Non-Executive matters.
• A very high level of commercial and financial acumen, able to draw a clear line between business strategy and its interdependencies to operational and people matters. Used to settings where data, economic or otherwise, drives vision and planning.
• Reputation as a well-rounded, multi-discipline leader who works well with high-intellect and high-expectation stakeholders looking for real delivery and excellence and who can influence and set the tone for an organisation’s culture and values.
• Senior deal team member for multiple global transactions (20+), including M&As and JVs; pre and post-IPO matters; MBOs; enterprise transformation and restructuring; organisational design and group consultation, including large redundancy programmes; and TUPE.
• Advanced skills in global matrix reporting (particularly to US-based leadership), linking overseas HoldCo decisions to execution and handling following delicate Board room, governance and senior executive matters, including working with deal teams from private equity and UHNWI offices.

I recently completed six years in a global advertising technology enterprise as its COO and CPO. The company was created and co-owned by ten of the world’s biggest media brands and rights holders and their co-shareholders (who were a portfolio of private equity companies and UHNWIs). The company scaled rapidly from 2016 to 2019 and was ultimately sold in 2020, with a seed EV of £15m and an exit value of £75m.

I was the Executive Project Manager for the end-to-end sell-side of the deal, including owning the cap table, the data room, all people communications, Board and shareholder inter-play for queries and voting and developing the new Shareholder Agreement and Articles with both the buy and sell side corporate counsel.

Further, across the company’s first four years, I led other project management-related matters, including:

• Project management of an inbound Singapore-based acquisition from News International and its entities across Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam and Malaysia.

• Project management for the Platform Engineering team’s transition from its in-house model to an outsourced provider based in Dublin (2019).

• Project management for onboarding all new shareholders and their representatives, with those capital providers’ teams being based off-shore, e.g., Monaco, BVI, etc., or in geos such as Singapore, North America and Ireland.

• Six years working for a New York-based private equity firm which owned global insurance and investment businesses worldwide. I was responsible for establishing and leading its International HR team, being centrally involved in the build, buy and sell activities related to their rapid global expansion. 

• One year as an interim and non-executive advisor to the Board directors of a FinTech SME, supporting them on governance-related project matters as a pre-cursor to their authorisation by the FCA; and

• Seven years with a UK FTSE-listed international financial services/reinsurance firm as a Group HR Strategy Partner.

Secondary school. Currently MA.