1. Desmond Brennan – February 2016, Terra
Corporate Experience:
15 years’ professional experience, nearly all of it involving data and people
I've strong capability in operational management, I've worked with C-level executives in
corporates that have tens of thousands of workers2
Functions:
My strongest function is Finance, especially all aspects of finance analytics
Other functions experienced include: Sales & Marketing, HR, IT & Operations, Research
Industry experience:
My home industry remains Financial Services ( Insurance (underwriting and selling ) ,
Payments, Credit, Capital Markets and Central Banking )
Other industries include : Consulting, Logistics, FMCG, Utilities, Telcos
Core competencies:
In each of them I use both social, economic and technical skills as appropriate - and I have
engaged in practice, research and sales for most of them also
1) Data: Discovery, Profiling, Management, Analysis & Modelling (Kimball & xNF) and
wrangling
2) Business Analytics: Solution Architecture, Business Analytics, especially Finance &
Corporate Performance Management – and research on emerging trends
3) Data Governance: Data Quality, Collaboration Design, KnowledgeManagement &
Organizational Design
4) Business Processes: Design, improvement & control. Trained in Lean Six Sigma
5) Finance: Cost accounting, Data Super User, Reconciliations, Master Data
Management
6) Business Strategy: Formulation, refinement & translation into ops models & plans
7) Change/PM: Soft skills, Project Manager & Assistant Programme Manager skills.
Prince2 versant & DSDM(agile) trained
8) Management Consulting: business strategy especially commercials
9) Communications: Verbal and written, including persuading and influencing,
strategic selling
10) Problems: definition & solving
11) Security : from time to time I keep various security skills current
12) Public Affairs : I have a keen interest in all aspects of public affairs, including
geopolitics, education and the developing world

2. 13) People and Leadership : I have skills in bringing people together, and enabling them
to do good work
14) Technical: MS Excel & Access, Teradata, Hyperion Essbase, MicroStrategy, VBA, SQL,
C, ETL/ELT, Text Parsing
15) Innovation and Creativity : I hone my creativity skills and focus on domains that I
believe I can bring the most benefit to bear on