Experts & Advisors
Jim Shand
Managing Director
Jim Shand is a Managing Director at Ankura, based in Dallas, focused on improving the performance of the technology function within clients. He has extensive functional expertise in information technology (IT), cost takeout, process automation, organizational design, third-party spend optimization across many industries, with a focus on supporting private equity (PE) clients and their investments.
Experience
- Program leader for an iconic U.S. retailer, to turn around a failing $100 million IT program, eventually shutting it down and launching a more focused and value-driven initiative.
- IT cost optimization for a leading healthcare technology company; IT cost reduction across all areas of third-party spend for a leading hosting company, and IT and research and development (R&D) optimization for a leading technology company providing data security and recovery.
- IT and R&D optimization for two educational tech software companies; target operating model design and implementation for a business-to-business/business-to-consumer cyber security product company; IT operating model redesign for a professional services company and a big-box retailer.
- Over 20 due diligence exercises for PE firms, primarily in high tech, especially software, retail, and industrials.
- Program lead for the merger integration of two consumer products companies into a $14 billion entity, including transformation of finance and IT functions, interim business leadership role, and delivery of $5 million in IT synergies.
- Americas’ profit and loss leader of a $200 million audit and analytics company, which included establishing data governance processes to help protect and manage 7petabytes of client financial data.
- Program leader for a global sporting federation, helping deliver a global sporting event, and helping the same federation launch and grow an e-commerce business.
- Published articles on the topic of leading practices in PE.
- Education
- MBA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management
- BS, Systems Information Management, Brunel University
