James Marks
Founder & CEO at Canopy
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Marks is a founder and CEO with a decade of experience scaling operations, building strategic partnerships, and driving commercial outcomes across technology, financial services, manufacturing and logistics. He founded Canopy to simplify cloud contracts and cost management, translating deep operational know-how into a cloud brokerage that returns time and savings to customers. Prior to Canopy he led global productivity and customer enablement programs at AWS, delivering cross-functional initiatives that reached tens of thousands of users and implemented predictive models and ML-driven scorecards across EU logistics. James has a track record of closing transformative contracts and generating seven-figure annualized cost savings through process design, automation and stakeholder alignment. He thrives in high-pressure, ambiguous environments and is known for turning complex commercial and technical challenges into actionable strategies that align C-suite stakeholders across Asia, Europe and North America. Based in London, he pairs a First Class BA in Business Management with hands-on operational delivery, often applying manufacturing-style continuous improvement methods to cloud and SaaS commercial problems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Business Management with Economics, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Business Management with Economics, First Class Honours at University of the West of EnglandHigh School, Physical Education, Biology,Economics, AS - Mathematics, High School, Physical Education, Biology,Economics, AS - Mathematics at Lord Wandsworth College
English
Github Skills (1)
effort3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
general231/Warhammer_dice_roller_java
Feb 2020 - Mar 2020
Contributions:8 PRs, 28 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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