Chief Technology Officer @ Trainline is the most downloaded travel app in the UK. In January 2015 our apps were ranked number one in both the "Travel" and "Transportation" categories on iOS and Android in the UK.
Beyond apps, our website is the UK's 5th largest e-commerce site. Across our channels, we have 4.7m active customers generating 20.8m visits per month.
As well as consumer offerings, we provide rail booking solutions for large corporate entities, Small and Medium Enterprises and Travel Management Companies; and provide the online sales platforms for a number of Train Operating Companies.
In January 2015 Trainline was acquired by KKR with a mandate to accelerate growth and capitalise on the significant expected growth in mobile penetration, as well as the shift to rail from other forms of transport.
To support these growth ambitions, we are always seeking ultra-talented, innovative and enthusiastic people to join our world-class engineering and support teams. In particular, we are currently innovating in the areas of mobile user experience, search and personalisation/contextualisation; as well as working with the rail industry to build the next generation of mobile ticketing solutions. From March 2014 to Present (1 year 10 months) London, United KingdomChief Technology Officer / CTO @ CPA Global is the world’s leading intellectual property (IP) management and IP software specialist, and an international provider of outsourced legal services.
More than 20,000 IP professionals and over 850 companies and law firms currently rely on CPA Global software to manage their valuable IP rights, including patents, designs, trademarks, contracts and domain names.
As CTO, Mark held management and P&L responsibility for the 8 separate software businesses. These amazing teams comprise >300 Product Managers, Developers, QA teams, Support staff, Project Managers and on-site Consultants; spread across 13 global locations including 4x US sites, Paris, Sweden, Australia and India.
Growth strategies included acquisition (First To File, IP Forecaster and Patrafee), organic sales growth and the creation of innovative new products and services. From November 2012 to February 2014 (1 year 4 months) London, United KingdomHead of Technology & Product @ Trayport builds reliable, low-latency electronic trading software, primarily focused on commodity markets. Our products include:
- OTC Matching Engines that enable Inter-Dealer Brokers to offer hybrid (voice and electronic) price distribution, execution and clearing services. The world's leading commodity brokers including ICAP, GFI, TFS, Spectron and Tullet Prebon all benefit from long-term partnerships with Trayport.
- Front Office Trading Software that enables energy market participants to consolidate diverse liquidity pools (including electricity, natural gas, coal, carbon, oil and freight) from the major Brokers and Exchanges onto a single screen. Over 140 clients including all major investment banks and all major European utilities, currently depend on Trayport's Trading Gateway product for their critical trading operations.
- Exchange Matching Engines that offer low total cost-of-ownership, class leading latency and FIX connectivity. We provide critical market infrastructure to Energy and emissions exchanges such as APX/Endex, BlueNext, Imarex and OMIP as well as leading international exchanges such as the Jakarta Futures Exchange, the New Zealand Stock Exchange and Sibex.
- Pre Trade Risk Management tools that enable Prime Brokers to offer sponsored access and/or access to bilateral credit lines in the wholesale Power & Gas markets
- Post trade capabilities including Trade Enrichment & Confirmations services, Clearing House connectivity (CME ClearPort, LCH, SGX, MEFF, NOS).
Various responsibilities including Technology and Product Management. Project Management and Business Development functions. From March 2008 to October 2012 (4 years 8 months) London, United KingdomIndependent Technology/Strategy Consultant @ - Led offshore & onshore, in-house and outsourced, architecture, development and IT support teams of up to 60 people
- Focused on delivery of strategic change programmes, compliance, due-diligence & IT audit initiatives
- Defined and delivered product & technical strategy for £25m+ global change programme at ABN AMRO
- Designed and costed Siemens delivery of the BBC’s DMI project, a multi-year change programme that will radically enhance the BBC's TV production processes
- Performed due-diligence for $20m+ acquisition of a US-based online music retailer
- Managed attempted €8m+ MBI, including valuation and growth strategies From September 2005 to February 2008 (2 years 6 months) Chief Architect @ From May 2003 to August 2005 (2 years 4 months) Founder / Technology Director @ From May 2001 to April 2003 (2 years) Chief Architect @ From September 2000 to June 2001 (10 months) Head of Software Development / Chief Architect, FT.com @ From August 1999 to September 2000 (1 year 2 months) Chief Technology Officer @ From November 1997 to August 1999 (1 year 10 months) Consultant @ From November 1995 to November 1997 (2 years 1 month) Founder / Technical Lead @ From September 1994 to October 1995 (1 year 2 months) Technical Lead @ From June 1993 to September 1994 (1 year 4 months)
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) @ London Business School From 2005 to 2006 Bachelor's Degree @ King's College London, U. of London From 1990 to 1993 Mark Holt is skilled in: Product Management, Innovation, Software Design, Technical Architecture, Business Strategy, IT Strategy, Agile Methodologies, Software Development, Electronic Trading, Commodity Markets, Commodity Risk Management, Integration, Business Analysis, Commodity, Enterprise Architecture