Philip E.
Andreae
(404) 680 9640 www.andreae.com philip@andreae.com
Executive
Summary
An
internationally experienced executive with an exceptional track record of delivering
proven results in business environments constrained by tight budgets, limited
execution time frames and complex user requirements. International experience with payment
solutions ranging from credit and debit cards to ACH, wire and mobile.
A business,
operations and technology executive proficient at developing strategies,
driving business development, mentoring product development, managing projects,
operations, telecommunications and information technology.
Skill
Summary
Thorough
knowledge and demonstrated expertise in the following areas:
·
Order-to-cash credit/debit card processing
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Digital identity, credentials. smart
cards, cryptography and security
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Transaction processing for payments, healthcare
and government
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Resource management
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Change Management
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Board experience and C-Level interaction
·
Influence management
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Advisory and committee management
·
Information distribution systems for
commodity, bond, FX and equity trading floors
Customer
Summary
Created and
implemented solutions for companies including Accenture, ACI, Anderson
Consulting, AT&T, AT&T Unisource, Bank of Montreal, Blue Cross Blue
Shield of Minnesota, British Telecom, Caledon, Canadian Tire Financial
Services, Carlson Marketing, CGI, Chemical Bank, Citibank, CUCC, CUETS, Dexit,
EF Hutton, GlobeID, IBM, Magenn Power, MasterCard International, MBank,
Meridian Credit Union, Merrill Lynch, National Westminster, NCR, Novida,
Ontario Ministry of Justice, Oracle, Paybox, Philips SemiConductor, Phoenix
Technologies, Prudential Bache, RSA, Shearson Lehman Brothers, Smith New Court,
The Strawhecker Group, UC.com, Unicate, VanCity, Verifone and Visa
International,
Employment History
Philip
Andreae & Associates, Toronto, ON and Atlanta, GA, 2004-present
Management
Consultant
Business and technology
consultant specializing in the evaluation, design, planning and implementation
of emerging technologies aligned to long-term business and corporate strategies.
Strategic Highlights:
·
Credit Union
Electronic Transaction Systems CUETS
Situation: Canada was moving to Chip and PIN technology,
CUETS needed to redefine their product and technical services.
Action: Provided training and facilitated a
series of strategy sessions with the executive team and 40+ directors.
Result: Created a coherent strategy, plan and
business case. Defined product implications and justified the investment
necessary to serve 600 credit union clients and 800,000 MasterCard and Interac
debit and credit cards.
·
Canadian Tire
Financial Services:
Situation: The Canadian payments associations made a
decision to migrate to Chip and PIN based on EMV.
Action: Defined implications on the retail and
financial services elements of Canadian Tire’s enterprise.
Result: Proposed that CTFS take a “first in
market” approach and produced the strategy and business plan to convert CTFS’
card issuing and retail environment to EMV.
The end result affected 2 million cards and 450 stores.
·
CGI:
Situation: The Greater Toronto Area issued a “Request to
Qualify” for a systems integrator to build and manage a contactless fare
collection system. CGI did not have the
necessary internal skills.
Action: Wrote the business case, executive summary
and key sections of the response.
Result: CGI was selected as one of the three that
would bid for the $250+ million program.
·
Magenn Power
Inc.:
Situation: Key members of the executive team could not
agree on which alternate Lighter-Than-Air (LTA) power generation solutions to fund.
Action: Facilitated external advisor and executive
session and produced a coherent strategy and timeline for the development of
two solutions.
Result: Recommended key management and
organizational changes that where implemented.
Visa
Canada, Toronto, Canada, 2002-2003
Vice
President, Emerging Products and Technologies
Member
of the executive committee mandated to reinvigorate the group responsible for
driving the adoption of new products and technologies in support of the 23 member
banks. Key objective: launch Chip and
PIN – EMV.
Strategic
Highlights:
·
Foreseeing a growth in fraud, led the Visa
Canada Board to approve the roadmap for the implementation of EMV “Chip and
PIN”.
·
Entered into dialogues with MasterCard and
Interac with the goal of getting them to also embrace Chip and PIN.
·
Introduced a series of initiatives to position
Visa in the contactless, mobile, pre-paid, co-branded, transit and debit.
·
Represented Visa Canada at the Visa International
Global Product Development Council.
Philip
Andreae & Associates, Brussels, Belgium and St Paul, Minnesota, 1996-2002
Consultant
and Interim Executive
Strategic
Highlights:
·
AT&T: Three-year engagement as technology
advisor and mentor to the calling card, multi-media (Internet Services) and
Universal Card Services divisions.
·
GlobeID:
Analysis of markets and industry trends leading to a recommendation to cease
further funding.
·
Oracle EMEA: Interim executive - Director Financial
Services Consulting Europe Middle East and Africa. Initiated the development of a Center of
Excellence to provide country teams with key Business and technical consulting resources.
·
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota: Led complex
data conversion project.
·
Unicate BV: Multi-year engagement focusing on developing the
“go-to-market” strategy for a new technology capable of proving irrefutable
proof of identity
MasterCard
International (Europay International), Brussels, Belgium 1991-1996
Director
IT Strategy
Initial
assignment: assumed the role of Interim
General Manager of European Payment Systems Services (EPSS), and served as
member of executive team responsible for merging EPSS, EuroCard, and Eurocheque.
·
Planned and secured board approval to expand
operations focus on modernizing applications.
·
Drove new technology developments and implemented
quality improvement.
·
Convinced the Board to triple the size of the IT
division.
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Key leader of the consortium that developed
EMV, the international standard for Smart Card payments.
Additional Professional Experience
Project Manager-Consultant
Smith New Court, London,
UK, 1990-1991
Served as consultant responsible for evaluating
technology RFPs for Smith New Court (major UK stockbroker) and its new London
trading room
Shearson Lehman Hutton
Ltd., London, UK, 1987-1990
Vice President and
Director, European Telecommunications
Reset the strategic directive and rebuilt
confidence in the telecommunications department. Boost departmental confidence while reducing
headcount by 30% and capital equipment and annual expenses by 25%. Successfully
integrated EF Hutton trading staff (aquired in 1988) into operation while
continuing to streamline costs and staff.
Served
as Project Manager of a £170 million project to develop Salomon’s UK headquarters,
completed on budget and on time, assuring Salomon’s success as a market maker
when London dematerialized and deregulated the stock market. I managed
a team of 23 people responsible for European telecommunications.
Early Career Highlights
Technology,
management and project management roles with National Data Corporation, Manufacturers
Hanover Trust, Bankers Trust and Chemical Bank.
Early career exposure to broad range of programming languages, systems
design, operations research, call center operations and planning, network
management, computer operations, product control, quality control, broadband
and LAN/MAN/WAN network technologies and project management techniques
including CPM, I-J and PERT.
Public Speaker
A
featured speaker at company-sponsored events and international trade
associations including: Lafferty, NCR,
ACI, VeriFone, Carte, EFMA European Finance Management Association, Europay, Tender
Retail, and EFTA Electronic Funds Transfer Association.
Education:
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA ‘76), Emory University, Atlanta GA
I am an
U.S. and Swiss Citizen, have work permits for
Canada and Europe. I will consider
relocate and will travel +50%.