Experience:
Over 16 years of strategic, commercial, marketing and technical experience in eCommerce companies.
Managing Shareholders
Creating Company and Shareholder value
Delivering sustained revenue and ebitda growth
Creating high performing motivated teams
Setting Strategic direction
Delivering operationally
Building effective online Marketing (SEM, SEO, Display, Retargeting)
Specialties: Vision, Strategy, Communication
Financial management – numbers
P&L responsibilities
Management of executive teams. Search - SEM, SEO and display; commercial negotiations; empowering and motivating teams; web product development and delivery; agile development methodology.
Have experience working across 19 different markets in EU and the Americas, including UK, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, USA, Brazil and Russia.
Spent 11 years living and working in the USA in Chicago and Los Angeles.
CEO @ CEO - running Kelkoo Company covering operations and revenue in 12 countries across Europe, Brazil and Russia.
P&L responsibility for the Group.
Managing Shareholders
Setting Strategic vision for the Company
Creating high-performance teams. From February 2009 to Present (6 years 11 months) London, United KingdomNon Executive Director @ Non-exec Director and Board Member attending to the interests of the shareholders and supporting and helping the CEO Nick White.
Kelisto is a leading Services Comparison Site in Spain enabling switching opportunities for consumers in Insurance, Personal Finance, Energy and Communications.
Vice-Chairman
Advising on Strategy From May 2013 to Present (2 years 8 months) Madrid Area, SpainDirector, CTO @ Director responsible for all of delivery at uSwitch (including development, QA, IT Operations and PM. Also Commercial Director for uSwitch responsible for all of Search (SEM & SEO), and Datawarehousing project. Introduced and championed agile (scrum with XP) to uSwitch. Created an environment that ennabled the creation of highly performing delivery and commercial teams. From June 2006 to February 2009 (2 years 9 months) London, United KingdomVP @ Responsible for running operations, website development, application development, datawarehousing and improving commercial revenue collection.
Key milestones included:
- Increased revenue collection by improving the billing and collections process via credit card payment improvements.
- Built and developed Photostamps - the commercially successful and popular product www.photostamps.com.
- Increased website conversion through website redesign
- Negotiated a number of large contracts (impacting the bottom line)
- Architected a number of cost saving/cutting improvements and activities across the business From May 2000 to December 2005 (5 years 8 months) Management Consultant @ Implementing CRM and Sales Force implementations for clients up and down the West Coast of the States during the 1st dot-com bubble.
Engaged in Strategic, Process and Technical discussions and advice with clients. From January 1999 to May 2000 (1 year 5 months) Greater Los Angeles AreaApplication developer and QA @ Worked on various statistical software packages including SPSS, Systat and allCLEAR. From 1996 to 1998 (2 years) Greater Chicago Area
Phd, International Relations @ University of Warwick From 1992 to 1995 MA, Politics and International Relations @ University of Warwick From 1991 to 1992 BA, History, 2.1 @ University of Exeter From 1988 to 1991 Richard Stables is skilled in: Agile Methodologies, Strategy, Negotiation, P&L Responsibilities, E-commerce, Affiliate Marketing, Web Analytics, PPC, User Experience, Analytics, Start-ups, Product Management, SEM, Mobile Devices, Strategic Partnerships