Christoforos' CV
Christoforos Christoforou
Programme Director | Transformation Leader | Financial Services & Market Data
Profile summary
Strategic Programme Director with 21 years shaping financial services and market data outcomes. Known for driving multi-country delivery strategy, commercial governance, and enterprise transformation initiatives with cross-cultural team leadership across the UK, GCC, and international markets. Committed to delivering structured governance, scalable data platforms, and alignment with regulatory expectations.
Career highlights
Multi-Jurisdictional Programme Delivery: Steered implementation strategy across the United Kingdom, Cyprus, and the United Arab Emirates while directing the integration of internal performance systems.
Commercial And Invoicing Governance: Managed commercial change control, contract adherence, and designed invoicing governance for time-and-materials projects within managed data services.
Technical Onboarding Management: Delivered 5 to 10 concurrent onboarding mini-projects involving FIX, SWIFT, Bloomberg, DMA, and sFTP flows at Goldman Sachs.
Project Management Certification: Held a PRINCE2 Practitioner certification supporting structured delivery governance across enterprise transformation initiatives.
Key skills
Professional experience
Directs delivery strategy for Managed Data Services and Benchmark Data Services, guiding multi-country client engagements and regional operations. Oversees global and Gulf client relationships while directing commercial governance and internal transformation initiatives.
- Built project planning frameworks in an organisation where planning had not previously existed.
- Created estimation models, templates, and delivery governance structures.
- Managed commercial change control and contract adherence.
- Designed and implemented invoicing governance for time-and-materials projects.
- Led internal artificial intelligence transformation initiatives, including data model and validation standards.
Steers multi-jurisdictional delivery operations across the United Kingdom, Cyprus, and the United Arab Emirates. Defines implementation strategy and commercial governance frameworks while coordinating cross-functional technical teams.
- Directed the integration of internal performance systems with the Rimes platform.
- Managed implementation team execution and established commercial governance standards.
Shaped design and build teams alongside commercial account operations, steering the implementation of benchmark data services.
- Oversaw integration of portfolio systems with Rimes to support multi-fund operations.
- Delivered iterative enhancements aligned with regulatory expectations.
Directs the managed data service platform, overseeing multi-stream enterprise initiatives and coordinating specialized technical squads. Establishes operational priorities and aligns delivery tracks with organizational capability requirements.
- Mobilised programme team and created detailed delivery plans.
- Introduced intraday pricing master and entity and security mastering.
- Led implementation across multiple streams.
- Delivered corporate actions mastering and multi-stream data platform build.
- Created BAU processes for post-go-live operations.
- Authored main client contracts and partner statements of work to establish clear operational boundaries.
- Built governance forums and management information reporting mechanisms to track progress across initiatives.
- Executed data lineage remediation programs for the UBS Finance Division to improve information accuracy and tracking across internal systems.
- Directed architecture simplification initiatives for UBS Equities Derivatives Technology to streamline core processing frameworks.
- Conducted design workshops and architecture sessions to align technical deliverables with client requirements.
- Oversaw build and implementation across the United United Kingdom, Sweden, and the United States.
- Executed client onboarding flows across FIX, SWIFT, Bloomberg, DMA, and sFTP protocols.
- Delivered five to ten concurrent onboarding mini-projects for institutional clients.
- Conducted feasibility studies and market analysis to evaluate new business opportunities and inform strategic planning decisions.
- Built supply chain, logistics, and assembly operations from the ground up to establish functional execution capacity.
- Delivered systems for LBBW, UBS, and HSBC.
- Executed platform deliveries for Lloyds, ABN Amro, and RBS.
- Set up the Goldman Sachs Asset Management India risk team and global reporting structures.
- Delivered benchmark and risk architecture enhancements.
Education
Information Systems Engineering | First Class Honours
Physics, Maths
- Physics (A)
- Maths (A)
- 5 A*, 5 A, 1 B, 2 C