Rick Furzer

Background

About Rick Furzer

Experienced and effective leader and data specialist. Developed and implemented strategies to: • Build awareness and effective use of data in organisational ecosystem • Protect customer and company data to meet regulatory compliance • Identify opportunities to leverage data to increase revenue and reduce costs Reduced potential financial, legal and reputational risk by: • Directing data stream for multi-million pound regulatory restructuring programme of a global bank’s systems • Orchestrating governance frameworks and stewarded regulatory compliance in public & private sectors • Negotiated and gained buy-in to create innovative engineering solutions improving technology resilience, minimising outages for customers and resulting in significant reductions in technology costs Expertise • Communication: creating links across functions, building understanding and trust to help with decisions • Leadership: 25 years developing, mentoring and motivating talent to create high performing teams • Strategy: driving the right use of organisational data to reduce product time to market and technology costs • Programme management: regulatory, operations and technology, full software development life-cycle (SDLC) • Data domain: data architecture, data engineering, data governance, data management, data analysis, data privacy