About Tom

Tom is currently Managing Partner of Starpoint LLP. He has over 16 years experience in banking, payments, software and innovation. He has worked with leading banks, mobile operators, payment networks, platform providers and regulators globally to bring innovation to consumers. Tom provides unique perspective based upon his global experience: Global Business head with Citi, Oracle, 41st Parameter and Wachovia. His teams have worked both in and with Fortune 100 companies, selling both directly to consumer and to other businesses. His StarPoint team is comprised of former CEOs and executives in payments, platform, banking, software, mobile, advertising, venture capital,  retail and sales.  Starpoint’s advisory services are focused in 4 areas:

• Connecting Innovation to Strategic Capital
• Strategic Advisory
• Sales Referral
• Platform Strategy

Prior to StarPoint, Tom was Global Remote Channels Head for Citigroup’s Global Consumer Group (GCG)reporting in to Ajay Banga. Tom’s primary focus was driving GCG’s international revenue growth through remote channels (Direct Banking, mobile, phone, …). GCG’s team of 97,000 across 47 countries continues to be the gem of Citi’s portfolio, attracting the best talent in every market. His teams launched (or acquired) direct banks in UK, Australia, Singapore, HK, Columbia, Portugal and Spain. Many of Tom’s former colleagues have moved on to become executive leaders at other organizations. This strong network provides a unique “global” ability to connect companies with knowledgeable local resources.

Previously to his role at Citigroup, Tom led Wachovia’s of online and payment services. His team was responsible for making Wachovia the #1 Online Retail Bank in the U.S (2005), managing over $30 Billion per year in payments. (2005 Keynote, 2005 ComScore, 2005 ACSI, 2006 ACSI). Wachovia’s  customer focus, and customer listening processes, provides a template for  how businesses can harness customers to drive business success. Satisfied customers require a lower cost to serve, have higher balances, own more products and serve as a tremendous source of information for development of  new products.

Tom is well connected to Silicon Valley start ups and venture firms due to his roles as an executive at Oracle and start-up 41^st Parameter. During his 5 years at Oracle held executive roles in Platform, Consulting, Hosting (Grid/Cloud/OnDemand), New Products and Exchange. His teams worked within product, sales and consulting to deliver Oracle’s leading edge products to Fortune 100 companies in over 30 countries (Application Server, Fusion, RAC, CRM, B2B Exchanges, ERP, Bill Pay, Supply Chain Planning).  Teams were comprised of senior solution architects, business development leads and product engineers that built and delivered some of Oracle’s most advanced new products with early adopters. His team helped drive the message, the sale and the delivery of these products in Asia, Europe and LATAM. The breadth of Oracle’s portfolio (technology, applications, hosting),  and corresponding geographic footprint, provided tremendous base for his current activities connecting ISVs to Fortune 100 companies. At 41st Parameter, Tom led sales and marketing to grow revenue 16x in just 18 months. 41st Parameter’s software is now used by the top US/EMEA banks both individually and in a new networked service to share intelligence.

Some of you may have seen Tom recently, as a hobby, he  is a frequent guest on CNN, Fox and ABC covering NASA and space policy. His background here is from his first 8 yrs as a  “rocket scientist” responsible for the space shuttle’s guidance & navigation with NASA. http://www.tomnoyes.com/shuttle.

More about Tom on LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/tcnoyes