Proven expertise in designing, operationalising and launching and running online businesses, particularly in ecommerce and digital, both B2B and B2C Specialties: digital transformation, product management, customer experience, strategic marketing, information architecture, operational design, sales leadership and execution

Partner @ From June 2014 to Present (1 year 7 months) Director @ Transform's the management consultancy division of the Engine Group, and is working with Argos, Tesco, eBay, Debenhams, O2, Barclays, New Look, HSBC and big public sector organisations. Our focus is digital transformation, from strategy to design to delivery, and always with a customer-centric approach. I am the director responsible for the Retail practice, with particular emphasis on digital transformation and omnichannel customer experience. From June 2013 to Present (2 years 7 months) Marketing Director @ From 2013 to Present (2 years) Head of UK Merchant Acquisition @ 2012/2013 - Head of UK Merchant Acquisition 2011 - Head of Sales, Europe responsible for the Automotive Parts & Accessories category 2009 - Head of Client Services, Europe, leading our retail client integration/consulting teams 2007/2008 International lead product manager for advertising, eBay Motors From July 2007 to May 2013 (5 years 11 months) Consultant, Innovation Program @ Designing and launching an online offering for medium sized business transacting internationally to help them manage operational risks. Sort of a combination Wikipedia+Yahoo Answers+LinkedIn+Reuters Alerts, see http://insight.reuters.com From October 2006 to June 2007 (9 months) Product Development Director @ The NLA is owned by the 8 major national newspapers. It exists to sell licences to press cuttings agencies for re-use of copyright material. I developed an online service offering built around taking PDFs from newspapers overnight and converting them to XML and individual story clippings. This included designing the operational infrastructure & outsourcing activities, staff hiring and product design. My responsibility was market & business case development, product/project management & product marketing. From October 2004 to October 2006 (2 years 1 month) Founder & Managing Director @ www.AskMyNetwork.com is an online 'yellow pages' but with detailed recommendations about the included providers. It integrates a social network to validate the recommendations and share insights between users From October 2003 to June 2006 (2 years 9 months) Product Marketing Director @ OneSource sells high value business information products to the world's largest B2B firms. I was responsible for the European offerings. From July 1995 to October 2003 (8 years 4 months) Publisher @ From April 1994 to July 1995 (1 year 4 months) IT Consultant @ Architected and coded IT systems for investment houses, publishing houses and other corporates From January 1991 to April 1994 (3 years 4 months) Quantitative Investment Analyst @ Investment analyst on international index funds From May 1989 to January 1991 (1 year 9 months)

Master of Business Administration (MBA) @ Kingston University From 2000 to 2002 Joe Tarragano is skilled in: Product Management, Marketing Strategy, Operational Planning, Product Marketing, E-commerce, Management, B2B, Online Marketing, Advertising, Sales Management, Information Architecture, Strategic Thinking, Strategy, Retail, Analytics