Victoria Brannen
Victoria spent over 10 years working with global brands in the financial services, automotive and hotel industry at a senior level, primarily in strategic planning and marketing strategy integration.
During Victoria’s role as Head of European Marketing fro Toyota Financial Services she supported Toyota Financial Services Europe (TFSE) expansion into Europe by realising the potential growth opportunity of each new territory, resulting in the lunch of TFSE into five new countries and growth of £269 million business revenue. Similar roles at Ford and Nissan Finance development team involved NPD, product appraisal, benchmarking, market, competitor and customer analysis and customer retention programmes.
She then spent several years as a management consultant, working for clients such as Millennium and Copthorne hotels for whom she delivered an investment appraisal project, which brought customers and service to the forefront of the organisations business activities. She proves a successful financial return for the £7milion investment in the enabling technologies and people resources required and identified the key enablers of major change within the organisation and recommended strategies for implementation and future management.
Victoria Brannen began working as a consultant to a start-up asset management company within the holiday park sector in 2006, the role was predominantly focused on developing business strategies for the purchase and re-development of holiday parks totaling an investment of c.£50m.
In 2007 Victoria become a founding Director of an investment management business focused on raising investment from institutional investors for investment in the holiday park sector. Victoria’s appointed role was Chief Investment Officer focused on developing the investment rationale and strategic performance of the funds assets advising on investment strategies for each acquisition and developing the portfolio in line within the return profile. Victoria was also responsible for overseeing the management performance of the management company employed to deliver the strategies and manage the day-to-day operations.
Victoria stepped down from Darwin in May 2010 and set-up Maya Asset Management, who retain Darwin as a client.