London, United Kingdom
Director of Operations
11/2008 – 04/2009

Royal Holloway College is one of the four largest multi-faculty colleges of the University of London. It is one of the UK’s premier Research led universities. The approximately 8,500 students study largely at the Egham, Surrey, campus that has accommodation for approximately 3000 on site.

Highlights:

As Director of Operations, I was accountable for all the operational and administrative services of the College. Direct reports included heads of the following functions; IT, Finance, HR, Academic Registry, Facilities Management, Library Services, Development, Research & Enterprise, External Relations and Royal Holloway International. The College’s expense base was approximately £120 million and there were in excess of 800 Administrative staff

Apart from the day to day running of the functions and management of the budget, I focused principally on:

• Professionalisation of the management of the functions,
• Developing strategies to combat the economic downturn,
• Playing a leading role in the merger process with St George’s, University of London