Robert WATTERS

En résumé

Entreprises

• Alfin Capital Ltd - Co-owner Alfin Capital Ltd

  2016 - maintenant Looking to take new or existing ideas to new markets, provide private equity support for start-up businesses, and especially interested in advising young companies:
  • Supplying seed capital to investigate great ideas
  • Securing working capital to get ideas up and running
  • Developing Strategy
  • Building a business plan
  • Constructing business models and infrastructure
  • Building great teams through recruitment, training and developing to fit the business needs
  • Selecting, targeting and reaching customers through; market analysis and selection, planning market entry, tailor made distribution models, cost effective marketing and thoughtful use of digital
  

• Founder and ex CEO of AXA Direct Protection and FamilyProtect - CEO

  2015 - 2016

• AXA Direct Protection & FamilyProtect - CEO

  2010 - 2014 Based in Paris and responsible for developing a new direct life protection business across Europe for AXA Group.
  
  AXA Direct Protection is the business unit and FamilyProtect is our new specialist life assurance company regulated in France.
  
  This role involves:
  1 recruiting a specialist team
  2 assembling a marketing front office
  3 sourcing a low cost outsourced back office
  4 building a special direct insurance IT platform from scratch
  5 establishing a new life insurance company licenced in France and able to operate across Europe under freedom of services legislation.

• Standard Life Assurance - Director- Group Marketing, Strategy and Planning

  2007 - 2010 1 Appointed Programme Director for the design and implementation of a new customer focused market structure for Group and UK Marketing.
  2 Responsible for running the marketing strategy and planning process on behalf of the Group Marketing Director and the Group Marketing Executive.
  3 Constructed and managed the annual operational marketing budget for Group and UK entities.

• ReMark International - General Manager - Business Unit Head

  1999 - 2006 ReMark is a specialist virtual insurance operation focused on the marketing of simple direct protection products, working globally and owned and funded at one point by 3 leading reinsurance companies.
  Based in Amsterdam as General Manager/Business Unit Head, with p & l responsibility for the growth and management of 3 separate units spread across Europe and Africa;
  1. UK/Ireland/The Benelux/Scandinavia
  2. Spain
  3. South Africa.

• Sedgwick Noble Lowndes - Managing Director - Marketing

  1999 - 1996 Sedgwick Noble Lowndes was the largest IFA in the UK and one of the world's leading employee benefits consulting firms, focused on pensions and healthcare, with UK revenue of over £110m and over 4000 corporate clients. Taken over by Marsh.
  
  Managing Director - Marketing, part of team of 4 Directors steering the direction of the company, recruited to be an agent for change in the organisation.
  
  With responsibility for managing all marketing activity in the UK and maintaining consistency across Continental Europe. Main objective was to bring more external focus to the organisation in terms of understanding clients and competitors through proper marketing planning, management of the range of services and listening to our clients’ views. Role involved repositioning SNL as ‘a premier employee benefits consultancy - not just an administrator who consults’.

• Pearl Assurance - Head of Marketing Operations

  1989 - 1996 Pearl was a leading UK insurer, latterly owned by AMP of Australia.
  
  Head of Marketing Operations and a member of Pearl's senior sales and marketing management. Responsibilities included brand management, TV/Press advertising, marketing planning, product strategy and development, direct marketing plus campaign implementation.
  
  During 7 years held various other roles; Head of Marketing Communications, Head of Products, New Ventures Development Manager and Marketing Manager – Direct Sales

Formations

Réseau

• Christian TORRADO

• Daniel CARDONA

• Gwladys KOMGUEM

• Joanna VEYRAT

• Jordan MAIOLO

• Laurent RAY

• Sandrine GIRSZYN

• Solène FILA

• Solohery RAMANANARIVO