As a Graduate Chartered Accountant Mr Bigham trained with a Top 20 London City based Firm of Auditors, where he was involved with over 100 small and medium enterprises. He left practice to become the CFO for a small but growing International Clothing Manufacturer where he led financing for International Brands such as Dona Karen Lingerie UK, Ireland and France. Sensing the Internet could provide a ticket into the world of Large Corporate Finance in 1999 he became an early employee at the famous pan European Internet Incubator the antfactory, where he worked closely with the Founding Team, many ex Morgan Stanley Investment Bankers and a number of the High Profile Incubatee "tech founders" such as Jane Procter's People News, e-Shipping and others.
The role was indeed a springboard which led to a two year project working for the Founding Team at the Internet Services Division of PCCW (Cable & Wireless / HK Telecom) an organisation owned by Chinese business magnet Richard Li the son of Hong Kongs Sir Ka-shing Li. Mr Bigham was later hired as Senior Manager with Lloyds TSB working as an internal Management Consultant and Finance Business Partner he advised the Business MDs and the Strategic Ventures team and led the business case team for two years. From 2005 to 2009 he worked continuously as a strategy consultant advising the C-suite and Boards of Blue Chip International Companies as a Consultant with Accenture and as Director with an International Strategy Consulting boutique and later as Founder of Bigham Consulting.
Mr Bigham has held a number of Senior Interim C-suite level positions where he worked on a number of high profile international business turnarounds and transformation projects including Head of Group Treasury at VANCO PLC, Head of Large Corporate Banking at RBS and as Head of Infrastructure Strategy at Deutsche Bank Global Markets. As well as helping a broad section of financial services firms he has additionally supported a number of leading Private Equity Funded portfolio company founders securing funding by developing their finance and operating models. Mr Bigham operated his own alternative investment fund AliCat Capital for five years from 2008 to 2012. He currently owns an online marketplace startup called OnMyBubble.com. OnMyBubble.com is a Social Network technology platform for traders, digital entrepreneurs and social media marketers. It is a Free to join platform providing free social media collaboration tools for selling digital and other products or services. It ranks well in google with a global reach, spanning more than 50 countries and 150 cities. Mr Bigham is currently in talks with investors and is seeking to expand the platform to offer digital games and other marketplace services.