About me
- I am a transformational technology executive with a proven track record of scaling SaaS businesses, delivering large-scale digital transformations, and driving private equity-backed growth. With leadership experience across field services, vehicle management, insurance, and health technology sectors, I specialise in aligning strategic business goals with innovative technical solutions.
- Highlights of my career include leading a SaaS business to attract private equity investment, securing a government health insurance technology contract, and empowering teams to achieve operational excellence through ISO-certified best practices.
Key Achievements
- Established a SaaS business and later scaled revenue by 3x, attracting $75m in private equity investment while improving operational reliability and scalability.
- Directed the successful bid for a $100m+ government health insurance technology and services contract.
- Successfully tendered and delivered a $10m analytics consultancy project for Aetna and Samsung, resulting in improved policyholder health and insurer loss ratios.
- Spearheaded the re-architecting of cloud infrastructure, reducing downtime and enhancing user satisfaction for 55,000 end-users.
- Re-platformed a general insurance company providing bespoke claims management and customised policy management delivering significant productivity and loss ratio improvements and received The Post magazine Technology Award.
Motivation
I'm most enthused where commercial interests coincide with those of customers and the environment.
- At BigChange: built a field management system to help SME businesses compete and reduce carbon footprint via job scheduling, reduced mileage and paperless operations.
- At PwC with Aetna: use health insurance management software to provide national health insurance to entire populations.
- At Samsung with Aetna: health data analytics to send helpful advice to those at risk of diabetes.
- At Driver Risk Dynamics (now 'Praiso'): use vehicle telemetry data to help drivers to improve their driving behaviours and so reduce risk of accidents.
- At Jaama: the software products enable the vehicle and finance industries to provide sustainable, safe vehicles at affordable prices and at scale.
Founded by Mike Buck BSc, MBA
How can I help?
I am available for leadership or advisory roles that require expertise in scaling SaaS platforms, managing digital transformations, or preparing businesses for private equity investment. My approach combines strategic vision with hands-on technical execution to drive measurable growth and innovation.
Featured Skills
- SaaS Scaling and Strategy
- Digital Transformation Leadership
- ISO 9001 Quality, 27001 Security, 27701 Privacy
- Private Equity-Backed Growth
- Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps
- Agile Team Leadership
Many of my assignments include the following
Agile AI apps AWS Azure behavioural change bid business business case business analytics change company CIO cloud continuous improvement COO consultancy corporates CTO customers data data quality management data privacy delivered development lifecycle due diligence ISO/IEC 27001 ISO 27701 program digital director energy engineer GDPR Google governance GRC health information information security investment case ISO9001 quality management M&A management Microsoft insurance ISO kanban leadership OKR PMO portfolio PRINCE2 practitioner programme management motor plan private equity product programme project providers responsible risk SaaS quality management risk management sale scale-up scaling SCRUM senior leadership team services software solutions start-up strategic strategy systems supplier management sustainable team telemetry target operating model