Check my blog: www.davidakka.com A successful managing director/CEO; a leader of people; a coach and a guide, Blogger, Public Speaker Member of UK Digital Catapult Advisory Network (Government) With over 20 years of world-wide field and head-office leadership and management experience in the IT industry (with a Software focus). Experience running companies and operations, Final P&L Responsibility, management of multinational teams (Sales, Marketing& Professional Services Delivery) and operations in the UK and Europe. My diverse experiences in technology sales and service delivery alongside with a strong technical background (software development and project management) allows me to manage mentor teams effectively for the entire life-cycle of any software-based product (Marketing, Sales and Post-Sales) for both direct or indirect business and a combination of both. Past experience in technology and service delivery include both UK and European responsibilities. Transformed an under performing high technology organisation into high growth, profitable product businesses. Specialties: Assumes full P&L responsibility and effectively manages operations, Marketing teams, Sales team and Service Deliver teams. Turns around non-profitable, non-growing operations Negotiates at all management levels Bridges commercial and technological issues at all levels Strong participant in all aspects of software sales strategy, including: technology, product management, market and competitive positioning, go to market strategies, strategic relationships, and business models. Keywords: Enterprise Mobility, Mobile Application, Multi-Channels, Mobile, Integration, SOA, EAI, BPM, SaaS, P&L, Sales, Marketing, Route to market, Management, Enterprise Software, Profitability

Member - Catapult Advisory Network @ The Catapult Advisory Network group provides structured and valuable conversations with senior members of the digital economy community and supports the Digital Catapult to stay tuned-in to the sectors it serves. The Digital Catapult is the UK's national centre to rapidly accelerate the UK's best digital ideas to market to create new products, services, jobs and value for the UK economy. Its focus is on data and metadata – on the data value chain. This is how it describes the ways in which people and organisations create, collect, transport and analyse data. From May 2015 to Present (7 months) London, United KingdomChief Executive Officer @ ABRS is a leading smart Professional Services and Recruitment Search consultancy. With a turnover in excess of $20M, and 16 years of experience gained in the Future Media, Technology, Marketing, Sales and Creative industries; ABRS brings talented individuals and great enterprises together. ABRS employs a smart search methodology to source and place talented individuals at mid, senior and executive, c-suite levels. Areas covered IT, Digital and Creative, Sales, Marketing and Project Management. ABRS's IT and infrastructure teams covers positions, such as front and back end web development, PHP and Java developers, opensource development, technical consultancy and technical architecture, right through to quality assurance and support roles such as database administration and network engineering. ABRS's Digital and Creative teams specialises in user experience, design and broadcast engineering roles within a diverse selection of companies to include world leading broadcasters, production agencies, digital communication service providers, social media specialists and interactive entertainment companies. ABRS's Sales and Marketing teams handle mid to senior level appointments across many disciplines including the Technology, New Media and Travel areas. Specialists in Online Marketing and recruit for Digital Marketing Managers, Business Development Managers, Social Media Executives amongst other Marketing positions. ABRS's Project Management teams specialists recruit for Project Managers, Programme Managers, Scrum Masters and Business Analysts. ABRS's clients range from sought after start-ups to established blue chip players and undertake a full range of assignments from permanent and contract to interim. Our experienced teams manage executive search and selection retained assignments, contingency projects and on premise recruitment solutions and provide 360 degrees solutions. ABRS has regionally placed offices in central London and Henley-on-Thames. From January 2015 to September 2015 (9 months) Henley-on-ThamesManaging Director, UK Eire & Nordic @ Enterprise Mobility, Cloud Computing, SaaS, Sales and Marketing Management From January 2006 to December 2014 (9 years) Business Development Director, Nordic & Baltic @ From August 2004 to December 2005 (1 year 5 months) Professional Services Director EMEA @ From January 2003 to July 2004 (1 year 7 months) Professional Services Manager @ From June 2000 to December 2002 (2 years 7 months) Project Manager and Senior Consultant @ From February 1998 to June 2000 (2 years 5 months) Head of R&D, and CTO @ From September 1995 to February 1998 (2 years 6 months) Project Manager, Software Group @ From January 1994 to October 1995 (1 year 10 months) Senior Developer, Software Group @ From November 1991 to December 1994 (3 years 2 months) Programmer, Software Group @ From October 1989 to October 1991 (2 years 1 month)

MBA, Master of Business Administration, With Merits @ The University of Manchester From 2002 to 2006 M.Sc, Computer Science, Data Mining (KDD) @ Tel Aviv University From 1999 to 2002 BA, Media and Management @ The college of Management- Academic Studies From 1996 to 1998 B.Sc, Math and Computer Science @ Bar-Ilan University From 1989 to 1991 David Akka is skilled in: Enterprise Software, Full P&L Responsibility, Business Strategy, Sales Management, Sales Growth, Marketing, Mobile Technology, Mobile Applications, Direct Sales, Channel Sales, Complex Sales, Software Development, IT Service Management, Public Speaking, Spokesperson, Negotiation, Operations Management, Requirements Analysis, Go-to-market Strategy, Business Modeling, Product Management, SaaS, Management, Cloud Computing, Integration, Business Intelligence, SOA, Pre-sales, Strategy, Mobile Devices, Business Development, Professional Services, Leadership, Marketing Management, Strategic Partnerships, Start-ups, Consulting, Software Project..., Project Management, CRM