Richard Powell
Designing Leaner, Faster, Outcome-Driven Organisations.
Leading enterprise-scale digital transformations for 20+ years. I specialise in navigating regulated, multi-market environments to deliver measurable business impact—reducing time-to-market, scaling revenue, and modernising operating models.
Strategic Positioning
Multi-Market Complexity
Specialised in scaling products and delivery across diverse regulatory landscapes (Africa, Middle East, Europe), ensuring global compliance with local agility.
Measurable Outcomes
A move away from "Agile for Agile's sake." I focus on hard KPIs: TTM reduction, opex optimisation, and platform stability at scale.
Operating Model Design
Implementing organisational structures that sustain high-performance delivery, bridging the gap between legacy constraints and digital-first requirements.
Featured Transformation Evidence
M-Pesa Africa: Scaling a Fintech Giant
Redesigning the delivery engine for Africa's most successful mobile money platform.
Outcome: 10× improvement in time-to-market (40+ weeks to ≤4 weeks).
Read Case Study →Airtel Money: Digital Payments Transformation
Redesigning the digital delivery and operating model for a scale-up fintech environment.
Outcome: Digital Payments ART launched across 14 markets, reducing TTM from ~12 months to 10 weeks.
Read Case Study →Sendy Logistics: Fulfilment Platform Scale-Up
Leading the redesign of fulfilment delivery to enable rapid scaling across eight African markets.
Outcome: Live ART launched in six weeks, enabling a 4-week average TTM.
Read Case Study →AI Experiment Disclosure: This site is an artefact of an AI-assisted delivery experiment. It was evolved using Google Antigravity to explore how large language models can accelerate the synthesis of complex delivery narratives while maintaining executive-level rigor. Learn more about the experiment.