Kamen Kamenov

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Turning complexity into clarity for your business.

Representative clients

London Stock Exchange Group, cloud transformation project
eBay regulatory strategy and response
unilever agile playbook for teams
experian organisation design for finance department
BMW augmented reality project
genAI project

A bit about me…

I am a strategy and transformation expert, and after a 10-year career as a management consultant at BCG and Accenture in London, I went independent.

I am trained by fire in solving highly complex, strategic business problems, identifying high-impact innovations, and bringing them to life by leading delivery programs of all shapes and sizes.

Working independently to deliver outcomes or side-by-side with you and your team — on-site, remotely, or hybrid - I will happily match your preference. If a project calls for it, I can also tap into a close network of trusted collaborators — to accelerate delivery, expand scope, reduce cost on simpler work, or complement my own expertise.

Keep going for more on my services along with some recent case studies.

I look forward to hearing from you!

My core expertise

    • Industry research

    • Complex data analytics

    • Business case development

    • Product offer & capability development

    • Design-led product innovation

    • Data-driven product-market fit

    • User research (quant. & qual. interviews, journey mapping)

    • Organisation design (team structure, spans & layers, decision rights)

    • Team-level governance

    • Organisational governance & prioritisation mechanisms

    • In-house and vendor talent strategy

    • Strategy execution via complex, single- or multi-team delivery

    • Stakeholder influencing across the org hierarchy

    • Change management: People, Program, and Leadership journeys

    • Quantifiable assessment of team-level Agile maturity

    • Coaching to mastery of the suite of team Agile ceremonies

    • Instilling enduring discipline in the work process and continuous improvement practices

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Representative projects

European Stock Exchange

  • The Client set out to modernise the foundational infrastructure to one of their most business-critical solutions underpinning ~50% of total revenue.

    A cloud service provide (CSP) had been selected to become a strategic partner and combine their capabilities with the Client’s domain expertise to build the new Solution.

    A strategic Discovery phase by the joint Client & Vendor engineering teams was required next. This was a complex effort that was to take place over ~4.5 months with a team of >50 people across Engineering, M&A, Legal, and Procurement.

    Progress had been stalling for a while due to the complexity and lack of robust program management and a governance backbone to steer the teams forward.

  • I was asked to join the team as co-lead of the Discovery program delivery. This was my first project with the Client as an Independent consultant after working with them as part of BCG in 2022.

    At the outset, I worked to define & agree on the Team of Teams structure based on the combination of domain and functional expertise, though we also had to continuously monitor for overlapping topics & priorities.

    In parallel, I helped set up the program’s operating rhythm for the Discovery squads as well as with the Leadership Team. This covered key bases with protected time for what we knew at the start. Given the nature of Discovery, however, we also managed multiple ad-hoc working sessions of all shapes and sizes throughout the program.

    In addition to contributing to the technical deliverables, I owned several others end-to-end:

    • The Program Charter & Onboarding Guide for the CSP and future new joiners;

    • The Program Management RACI matrix for steering of future phases (e.g., Build);

    • The Governance mechanism for the multi-year program, which was included in the overall legal agreement

    • The org. design model for the Build & Run phases, including augmentation from the cloud provider

    Given the size of prize, number of people involved and scope scale, this was my most challenging and complex independent engagement to date. It led to the extension of my engagement with the Client, to support other strategic programs in their portfolio as advisor or Program Director.

  • Discovery

    The overarching contractual agreement was completed and signed, including 8/28 contract-critical deliverables completed on time for signing with the remaining 20 trending ‘green’ vs. target dates.

    Additionally, the delivery velocity & smoothness of the working process kept improving throughout Discovery.


    Long-term business impact

    • Ten-figure de-risked recurring revenue for Client

    • Synergies from the CSP relationship across other strategic programs

    • A competitive edge for Client for the next 10+ years

Global Online Marketplace

  • This was my first engagement as an independent consultant.

    The client was one of the most iconic and well-known online marketplaces.  Their regulatory environment is complex and multi-faceted, constantly requiring carefully crafted strategic responses to the various legislations. An area where complexity was growing exponentially is Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR).

    A new suite of requirements part of a pan-European legislation on batteries & waste batteries were about to come into force. To date, this was the most complex new EPR law Client had to comply with as it impacted 56k sellers across the globe and gross merchandise value of >$2bn across >400 product categories.

  • My support to Client was three-fold:

    1 - leading the response program, which entailed close collaboration with several teams across the Client’s org, including Legal, Product, Marketing, and Customer Service.

    My first and main goal was to understand in detail what practical implications the Legal interpretation of the new law had for Client’s platform, and to capture them in a way allowing the technical (Product) teams to understand what changes need to be implemented. This meant ensuring that a practical business and seller-friendly lens is consistently applied to the work. 

    Additionally, I developed a messaging framework to serve as a guide for the various customer communications such as emails, banners, and social media campaigns. As a follow up to this, I collaborated with copywriters and the Marketing team to prepare and launch customer comms.

    2 - The response program I led was also used as an opportunity to review the approach to regulator escalations across all EPR programs and Client service readiness teams. This meant leading multiple workshops to review the current state and design scalable and adaptable new processes, including the broader op. model required to support it.

    3 - I also supported the Senior Director of the Global Regulatory team in crafting Client’s EPR strategy, defining scenario-based ambition on implementing regulation-driven product changes over the next decade. This included providing feedback to global industry initiatives such as Project SEED, ensuring Client brings a coherent view to the roundtable of the industry’s largest players.

  • Regulatory response

    • Sellers were well-supported to take the right action to comply

    • Technical teams understood the assignment and got on with it

    • The seller support teams were enabled with the right information

    • Necessary escalation paths were put in place

Global B2B Technology Seller

  • The Client - a holding company providing solutions in three verticals: Energy, Healthcare and Technology - was looking for new ways to reach customers and gain an edge over its competition.

    They came to BCG for help with identifying areas the Client should invest or could play in (core vs new business models), understand how they could leverage AI and GenAI, which specific opportunities to go after now vs later, and lastly what data, org structures, skills & frameworks would they need to support the delivery of those opportunities.

  • First, I led a team of 8 senior client representatives from the Technology vertical through a 4-staged innovation process spanning ~3 months to:

    • Align on their digital ambition

    • Identify whitespaces & priority gaps to address aided by industry & competitor research, trends analysis and addressable market sizing

    • Prioritise 8-10 concepts to deliver in the short- and medium-term

    • Prepare them to present the most promising idea to the Board for investment approval

    This was followed by an 8-week phase where I identified the skills & capabilities needed for the Client to deliver the digital ambition, and designed the operating model that would enable future scaling, including the org. structures for the talent to sit in.

  • Our team developed the winning concept - an AI-powered b2b marketplace and identified >$115m in profits potential by 2030.

    The idea was approved by the Board to outline further, given its potential for immediate impact.

    As a result, our consulting team got invited to respond to an RFP to move from early-stage concept development to rigorous validation (>$4m in fees).

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