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At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top London based Director operating in the Management Consulting space. If you think a Director is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Roger Kennedy
Managing Director of Cantor Fitzgerald
Roger Kennedy is the Managing Director at Cantor Fitzgerald.
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About Cantor Fitzgerald: Cantor Fitzgerald is a global financial services firm that specializes in equities, investment banking, and real estate.
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Charmaine Eggberry
Managing Director & Partner of McKinsey & Company
Appointed to the Board in January 2014. Charmaine is a Partner at BCG Digital Ventures (an arm of The Boston Consulting Group), a role which involves leading the creation of completely new ventures and businesses for the world’s biggest brands. Charmaine is also a Non-Executive Director of Avanti plc and software robot specialists, Blue Prism plc as well as Chairperson of Buzzmove. She is also the CEO of Plan B Consulting and undertakes advisory work for several early stage startups. Charmaine previously held international senior executive roles with Research in Motion (Managing Director and Chief Marketing Officer from 2002–2008) and Nokia (Global Senior Vice President from 2010–2012). Before joining RIM in 2002 as Marketing Director for Europe she worked for Lucent Technologies where she held several positions including the roles of Global Business Partner Marketing Director and Marketing Director, EMEA. Charmaine led Wayra UK, one of the world’s largest digital business accelerators and was a non-executive director of Wayra UnLtd, a joint venture between the UK Government and Telefónica. Charmaine is also a board member and trustee of The Marketing Academy. Charmaine holds an MBA and attended Wharton Business School to study Global Marketing
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About Blue Prism, McKinsey & Company, Plan B One‑Step: McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm and trusted advisor by businesses, governments, and institutions.
Eric Kump
Managing Director and Partner of The Carlyle Group
Eric J. Kump is a Managing Director and Partner. He is Head of the Carlyle Sub Sahara Africa Fund and an advisor of the Carlyle European Partners investment committee. He is based in London. Eric Kump has more than 20 years of private equity experience spanning four continents and numerous sectors. Prior to joining Carlyle European Partners in 2010 , Mr. Kump was a Managing Director and Head of the European Private Equity team of Dubai International Capital (DIC). Prior to that, he was a Managing Director with Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity (MLGPE) where he was a member of the global investment committee. Mr. Kump is on the Board of Directors of MPS, TiAuto Investments and J&J. Mr. Kump received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and he received a B.A. in finance and accounting from Pace.
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About The Carlyle Group: The Carlyle Group is a global private equity firm that caters to early and later stage companies.
Katherine Elmore-Jones
Managing Director of The Carlyle Group
Katherine Elmore-Jones is a Managing Director advising on Investor Relations and Fundraising across Europe. She is based in London. Prior to her current role, Ms. Elmore-Jones was Director of European Communications, in charge of managing Carlyle’s public relations in Europe. Before joining Carlyle, she was with Herald Communications and Seed Capital, a U.K. venture capital firm. Ms. Elmore-Jones received her M.A. in biological sciences from Oxford University. She has been registered with the FSA since 2007 for the CF30 controlled function and holds a full Investment Management Certificate.
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About The Carlyle Group, The Carlyle Group: The Carlyle Group is a global private equity firm that caters to early and later stage companies.
Fernando Chueca
Managing Director of The Carlyle Group
Fernando Chueca is a Managing Director with Carlyle Europe Technology Partners focusing on buyouts, growth capital and strategic minority investments throughout Europe in the technology, telecommunications, software and business services sectors. Mr. Chueca is based in London Since joining Carlyle in 2001, Mr. Chueca has been actively involved and he has advised on 11 major investments and ten completed realizations, across Europe. Mr. Chueca is a member of the Board of Directors of Livingstone Technologies, and was formerly on the Board of Directors of Itconic, Expereo, ITRS Group, Arsys Internet, Bigmouthmedia, Nature Delivered (Graze) and FRS Global.
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About The Carlyle Group: The Carlyle Group is a global private equity firm that caters to early and later stage companies.
Alex Wagenberg
Managing Director and Partner of The Carlyle Group
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About The Carlyle Group: The Carlyle Group is a global private equity firm that caters to early and later stage companies.
David FitzGerald
Managing Director of The Carlyle Group
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About The Carlyle Group: The Carlyle Group is a global private equity firm that caters to early and later stage companies.
Colin Atkins
Managing Director of The Carlyle Group
Colin Atkins is a Managing Director and Head of the European Structured Credit advisory team based in London. Mr. Atkins joined the firm in 2004 as Head of Credit for the European Leveraged Finance business, a role in which he worked on many notable transactions, before taking on his current position. Mr. Atkins came to Carlyle from Prudential M&G where between 1999 and November 2004, he helped establish Prudential M&G’s Leveraged Finance platform, which became a market leader in the European institutional market. Over the five year period, the business invested over €2.5 billion in leveraged finance assets and Mr. Atkins had responsibility for primary market execution and secondary market loan trading. Mr. Atkins previously worked in Corporate Private Placements at PPM America in Chicago and held positions in Prudential M&G’s Corporate Tax and Treasury departments. Mr. Atkins holds a B.A. (Hons) in accounting & finance from Nottingham Trent University. He is a member of The Association of Chartered Management Accountants (ACMA) and is a CFA charter holder. Mr. Atkins has been registered with the FSA since 2010 for the CF30 and CF4 controlled functions.
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About The Carlyle Group: The Carlyle Group is a global private equity firm that caters to early and later stage companies.
Martin Glavin
Managing Director of The Carlyle Group
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About The Carlyle Group: The Carlyle Group is a global private equity firm that caters to early and later stage companies.
Andrew Zimmermann
EMEA Controller(Director) of The Carlyle Group
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About The Carlyle Group, The Carlyle Group: The Carlyle Group is a global private equity firm that caters to early and later stage companies.
Stuart MacKenzie
Director of The Carlyle Group
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About The Carlyle Group: The Carlyle Group is a global private equity firm that caters to early and later stage companies.
Jean-Paul Petranca
Principal, Managing Director & Partner of The Boston Consulting Group
Managing Director and Partner at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) London
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About The Boston Consulting Group: The Boston Consulting Group is a global management consulting firm and an advisor on business strategy.
Antoon Schneider
Senior Partner and Managing Director of The Boston Consulting Group
Antoon is a Managing Director and Senior Partner in the Principal Investor and Private Equity practice at Boston Consulting Group. Antoon has advised most of the 50 largest private-equity firms globally on topics that include deal sourcing, due diligence and firm strategy, as well as working with their portfolio companies on 100-day plans and operational-improvement. He also has extensive experience in corporate M&A. Before joining BCG in 2011, Antoon spent nearly 14 years with McKinsey&Co, where he led the private-equity practice in the UK. Prior to that he worked in M&A at Hambros Bank and as a Chartered Accountant.
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About The Boston Consulting Group: The Boston Consulting Group is a global management consulting firm and an advisor on business strategy.
Lorna Gradden
Co-founder & Director of Valideus Ltd
Lorna is co-owner and Operations Director of Com Laude. She has been working in domain name management since 1994 and co-founded Com Laude with Nick Wood. She is known for having client interests at heart in all aspects of her work and ensures all aspects of Com Laude run smoothly, taking responsibility for order fulfilment, registry relationships and information systems. A regular speaker at industry events, Lorna loves the ever-changing nature of the domain name space. She previously co-founded Net Searchers with Nick Wood, a company described by Legal Business magazine as “possibly the best domain name management company in the world and certainly the first to treat domains as IP, not IT”. After Nick and Lorna sold Net Searchers, she joined VeriSign DBMS in 2003 as head of client management for EMEA. For Lorna, job satisfaction comes from getting to work with fantastic people and when she’s not dreaming of domains, Lorna can be found tending vegetables on the South Coast of England. She says that her law degree is not quite as useful today as it was during the five years she spent managing a successful band.
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About Com Laude, Valideus Ltd: Valideus Ltd is supply consultancy and management solutions to brand and community registry operators.
Michael Phair
Founder, Director & CEO of REG
REG’s Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Michael Phair, is a banking veteran with links to World Bank, N M Rothschild and UBS. Michael is a private equity investor with over 40 years’ experience in the financial markets.
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About REG: REG provides an intelligence, analytics, and risk management software to the global insurance and financial services market.
Ömür Topaç
Managing Director of OTTE CHRYSALIS
Ömür Topaç is currently accredited by the UK government as a “Tier 1 Exceptional Talent ” in “Digital Technologies” in the UK, which is a route designed for highly skilled individuals in the field of digital technology who will enrich the United Kingdom’s knowledge economy and cultural life. Topaç had acted in the capacity of the Head of Marketplaces and Head of Sales at GittiGidiyor, the Turkish subsidiary of eBay. Topaç graduated from TED Ankara College from the ITU Faculty of Architecture with a degree in the field of education. He continued his graduate studies at the same faculty and graduated as an architect. In 1999, Topaç switched to the internet industry and worked at Gedik Holdings, a company that was initially founded as a manufacturer of welding consumables. He developed a number of electronic commerce projects in many different areas, and created Gedikgross.com, a Turkish e-commerce website. Topaç is also primarily responsible for the acquisition of ekonomikticaret.com, a popular e-commerce site in Turkey. He also launched promotional campaigns targeting the sale of products through a deals-based platform called pazartesisendromu.com. In 2010, Topaç moved to Dixons Retail/Electro World, where he established alternative sales channels, before moving to Gittigidiyor/eBay Turkey in 2011. At Gittigidiyor, Topaç worked as a technology business development manager before serving as the director of marketplaces.
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About OTTE CHRYSALIS: OTTE Chrysalis is a London based management consultancy company.
James Cook
Associate Director of 150BOND
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About 150BOND: Global Advisory
David Howlett
Marketing Director of ICP
Now working at ICP as Marketing Director. David is an experienced Board level Marketing and Business Development Director having worked in many industry sectors, recently in a business to business environment within professional services companies, but with high levels of understanding of the business to consumer context and within a wide range of market sectors. Specific functions that David has managed include marketing, communications, business development, market research, insight, branding, strategy development and general management within SMEs and large corporates. He has also had experience of setting up new ventures within existing businesses, and of managing a production facility. this has involved managing many teams, large and small, made up of experienced directors and of junior to mid level executives. David has a very strong understanding of finance, in terms of budget management and the setting of key performance indicators in addition to monthly and annual financial performance measurement. Sector experience includes Fast Moving Consumer Goods, food & drink, personal care, household care; paint; packaging; recycling. David has travelled extensively and held international responsibilities in many of roles, including Europe, USA, China, Saudi Arabia. Recently, David has been invited to deliver guest lectures to undergraduates and postgraduates at Oxford Brookes University Business School covering marketing, market research, thought leadership and content marketing themes.
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About ICP: ICP provides digital asset management consulting, advertising production and video services to global clients and brands
Ben Wilde
Member of the Board of Directors of FirstCarbon Solutions
Ben Wilde is a Member of the Board of Directors at FirstCarbon Solutions.
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About : FirstCarbon Solutions is a consulting company that provides sustainable practices and business solutions to its clients.
Kyle Hill
Global Director, Digital Sales and Service of Avanade
Kyle Hill a South African born Dynamics enthusiast, now based in London. He currently has the pleasure of being part of the presales team at Hitachi Solutions.His main focus is on Dynamics 365 with a slant to the more traditional CRM flavour of things. He also has a keen interest in IoT, Connected Field Service, the Bot Framework and the Adobe Experience cloud. He has a strong technical passion which he has coupled to a sound understanding of the Dynamics 365 platforms and this enables him to focus on creating innovative and value-generating solutions.
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About Avanade, Hitachi Europe: Avanade provides innovative digital and cloud services, business solutions and design-led experiences on the Microsoft ecosystem.
Roy Vella
Managing Director/Founder of Vella Ventures
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About Vella Ventures: Vella Ventures is an executive consultancy delivering strategic advice and commercial services to digital leaders.
Stephen Sale
Research Director of Analysys Mason
Stephen is the lead analyst for Analysys Mason’s Voice and Messaging research programme. His primary areas of specialisation include consumer VoIP, fixed–mobile substitution and pricing strategies. Before joining Analysys Mason, Stephen worked in a number of research and marketing roles within the telecoms industry and has several years’ experience in VoIP and broadband access. He has a degree in economics and an interdisciplinary MRes from the University of London.
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About Analysys Mason: Analysys Mason is the leading management consultancy focused on telecoms, media and technology (TMT).
Ian Hathaway
Managing Director of Hillgate Partners
Ian Hathaway is Research Director at the Center for American Entrepreneurship, where he leads content development efforts, publishes research and commentary, and advises on policy and strategy. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a research fellow at the Technology and Policy Research Initiative at Boston University, and an adjunct professor at New York University. Ian has published for prominent research institutions, universities, non-profits, and businesses, and is regularly cited in leading press outlets for his views and research on entrepreneurship, including in The New York Times, The Economist, The Washington Post, Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal, among many others. He has also been an advisor to organizations in the information technology, media, life sciences, venture capital, non-profit, government, and education sectors, on a range of research, public policy, and strategy issues. Previously, Ian was an economist at the Federal Reserve, World Trade Organization, and Bloomberg, and founded Ennsyte Economics. Ian is a graduate of the University of Chicago, where he studied economics and political economy.
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About Center for American Entrepreneurship, Hillgate Partners, The Brookings Institution: Innovation, insight, and advisory services firm
Goolshun S Belut
Managing Director of Smplicity
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About Smplicity: Smplicity is a London based salesforce partner that focuses on improving business performance with Salesforce
Richard Bassett
Creative Director of Fluxx
Tricky has been designing interactions since the 90’s. After freelancing with design agencies in London and New York, he founded his first design studio, Tricky Business, and enjoyed life as a pioneer, designing user-experiences for clients such as Microsoft, Capita, easyJet, BBC and SKY. At Fluxx, Tricky and his colleagues work with client teams, using Design Thinking and Agile principles to develop products and services at such pace that they transform the way organisations work. Fluxx design with evidence, create propositions people want and ensure their clients can drive a model for repeatable innovation moving forward. As Creative Director, Tricky leads the creative capability and is responsible for delivering compelling customer propositions. Clients that he is most proud to have worked with in the last few years include: Mars, PepsiCo, Microsoft, Heathrow, GAME, giffgaff, News UK, The National Grid, HSBC, British Gas, Atkins and The Foreign & Commonwealth Office.
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About Fluxx: Fluxx is an innovation company that unlocks potential in organisations, helping them to change and innovate at pace.
Ian Gordon
Director of Business Development, European Markets of ZE PowerGroup
Ian is an expert resource for ZE, and is currently based in the UK as Director of European Markets. Ian brings a tremendous amount of knowledge and experience with an extensive background in IT and the energy industry. He has helped establish ZEMA as the global standard for data management and analysis. His expertise, enthusiasm and drive are key contributors to powering ZE in the European market. Ian is very adept at understanding client requirements and translating them into concrete business specifications.
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About ZE PowerGroup: ZE PowerGroup is an experienced software development and strategic consulting firm.
Pascal Keutgens
Managing Director of CPP Investments
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About CPP Investments: CPP Investments helps and provides a foundation on which Canadians build financial security in retirement.
Hannah Chaston
Social Director of Iris
As Social Director Hannah heads up and drives the social and content offering at iris. She oversees and consults on all social media activity across the agency, from innovative platform usage, content planning and influencer strategies to integration and community management best practice. Her efforts have resulted in award-winning campaigns for the likes of Domino’s, Brivtic and many more. Her background is pretty mixed with experience in publishing, retail and PR, in the UK, Australia and Singapore.
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About Iris: Iris is an advertising agency that creates an innovation network of over 1000 people across 17 markets.
Grant Hunter
Executive Creative Director Europe of Iris
Grant is the Executive Creative Director of iris in Europe. He returned home to London in 2017 after 7 years in Singapore where he headed up iris’ creative output across the APAC region. During his time at iris, he has led the award-winning design team for the 2012 Olympic Mascots, developed Johnnie Walker’s F1 branded content series ‘Step Inside The Circuit’ and the ‘Force Of Black’ platform for adidas’ partnership with the All Blacks. He is the co-author of Newsjacking published by Thames and Hudson and is a regular speaker and judge at creative industry events including D&AD Shift.
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About Iris: Iris is an advertising agency that creates an innovation network of over 1000 people across 17 markets.
Hannah Beesley
Social Director of Iris
Hannah Beesley is a Social Director at Iris Worldwide.
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About Iris: Iris is an advertising agency that creates an innovation network of over 1000 people across 17 markets.
Mike Nugent
Director of Hitachi Consulting
Mike Nugent is a business development director responsible for the manufacturing and fleet management sectors at Hitachi Consulting. A solution engineer, Mike specialises in developing digital strategies and solutions with clients to deliver improved business outcomes for clients such as increased fleet utilisation, improved operational uptime, lower maintenance costs, improved quality and the delivery of a single version of the truth through data presentation and visualisation. With over 25 years in industry, a range of technology and consulting roles, as well as his own IoT business, Mike is passionate about delivering operational efficiency and effectiveness through the right combinations of people, process, technology and data.
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About Hitachi Consulting: Hitachi Consulting offers its clients management consulting, technology solutions, and business innovations services.
Simon Faure
Managing Director of IH International Advisors
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About IH International Advisors, Silverfleet Capital: IH International Advisors provides Private Equity investment advisory services to Inter Fund Management SA.
Kev Emery
Director of Underwriters Laboratories (UL)
Kev Emery is the Head of Optimization and Certification within the Chip Centre of Excellence at Discover. In this role, Kev is responsible for certification, outsourcing and managing various products within the Chip Centre of Excellence. Kev has spent nearly 15 years working in the payments Industry and has had various roles for payment schemes and technology vendors supporting Acquirers, Issuers and Merchants.
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About Underwriters Laboratories (UL): UL is a global independent safety science company offering expertise across five key strategic businesses: Product Safety, Environment,
Kev Emery
Director of Underwriters Laboratories (UL)
Kev Emery is the Head of Optimization and Certification within the Chip Centre of Excellence at Discover. In this role, Kev is responsible for certification, outsourcing and managing various products within the Chip Centre of Excellence. Kev has spent nearly 15 years working in the payments Industry and has had various roles for payment schemes and technology vendors supporting Acquirers, Issuers and Merchants.
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About Underwriters Laboratories (UL): UL is a global independent safety science company offering expertise across five key strategic businesses: Product Safety, Environment,
Nicolas Jacquier
Managing Director of Leyton France
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About Leyton France: Leyton France is a consulting firm specializing in cost optimization consulting.
Mike Fish
CEO and co-found of E-Numeracy and Director of BigData4Analytics
Mike Fish is founder and CEO of award-winning education software start-up E-Numeracy. E-Numeracy uses AI to help those who struggle with numeracy – one third of the population – to rebuild their confidence with numbers and to improve their employability. In addition Mike is director of AI & Analytics consultancy BigData4Analytics, whose clients include EY, Investec, Grant Thornton and Zurich Insurance.
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About BigData4Analytics: Management Consultants in Big Data
Jackie Down
Director of BigData4Analytics
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About BigData4Analytics: Management Consultants in Big Data
Ales Zivkovic
Founder and Director of EDC51
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About EDC51, YAC: EDC51 is a transactional analysis training and organizational consultancy company.
Neelendra Nath
Director of Innovitas
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About : Innovitas is an innovation intelligence and design company based in London.
Nadia Hutchinson
Global HR Operations Director of Kantar
Nadia Hutchinson is an international human resources leader with wide experience in transformation, change management, shared services and M&A. She joined Kantar at the end of 2018 leading HR Operations globally specifically to embed SaaS technologies, transform payroll and professionalize the HR service delivery model across the group. Her experience at British American Tobacco plc. as part of their global HR transformation team saw her leap into the changing world of digital technologies and data management. Prior to this Nadia led the HR Shared Service function for Standard Chartered Bank across Europe with a focus on risk and compliance that has continued in her career. Nadia is English, holds degrees in History, Spanish and Business Administration whilst also speaking Spanish. Her experience has spanned the data consultancy, media, financial services, management consultancy and magic circle legal organizations management. Otherwise, Nadia is passionate about travel and her young family. In addition, she has been a school governor and is a co-founder of a not-for-profit brokering targeted volunteering to support youth engagement and improve social mobility.
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About British American Tobacco, Kantar: Kantar is the data investment management division of WPP, is a global insight, information, and consultancy network.
Hannah Stockley
Director & HR Consultant of HR Optimisation
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About HR Optimisation: HR Optimisation works with tiny companies to implement HR strategies and actions that are realistic, simple, and extremely successful.
Carl Thomson
Senior Director of Interel
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About Interel: Interel is a global public affairs and association management consultancy.
Jon Macdonald
CEO and Executive Director of AlwaysChoose
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About AlwaysChoose: AlwaysChoose aids firms, ceos, politicians, creators, and influencers in implement and practical barriers to inspire themselves and others.
Alma Angotti
Managing Director and Co-Head of Global Investigations and Compliance of Guidehouse
Alma Angotti is a Managing Director and Co-Head of the Global Investigations & Compliance practice. Ms. Angotti is a recognized expert in anti-money laundering (AML), combatting the financing of terrorism (CFT) and economic sanctions compliance. She has counselled her clients in a variety of projects, and managed gap analyses, compliance program reviews, risk assessments, remediation efforts, investigations, and historical transaction reviews. Her clients include large, complex, global financial institutions, global payments institutions, mid-sized banks, broker-dealers, and Fintech and digital assets companies, hedge funds, casinos, and multinational corporations. Ms. Angotti has held interim senior compliance leadership positions at several global and regional financial institutions providing day-to-day management of their compliance programs and assisting them with remediation efforts, often in the context of a regulatory or criminal enforcement action. She has trained and advised the financial services industry and regulators and government officials worldwide on AML, sanctions, CFT and other regulatory compliance issues. With over 25 years of experience in regulation and enforcement, Ms. Angotti has held senior enforcement positions at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority). In these positions, she was responsible for investigations and enforcement of the Bank Secrecy Act, the federal securities laws, and FINRA rules. At FinCEN and FINRA, she designed and lead the AML enforcement programs.
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About Guidehouse: Guidehouse is a global provider of consulting services with a focus on driving cross-market advancements.
Nigel Dias
Managing Director of 3n Strategy
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About 3n Strategy: 3n Strategy is a global consultancy business that helps clients in decision-making for large organizations.
Tim Coombs
Managing Director of Aviation Economics
Tim is the MD of Aviation Economics our consultancy brand and has worked in aviation ever since leaving university, which was a long time ago……..so he has a vast amount of experience in the industry! He runs a team of talented industry professionals who understand the industry end-to-end. Outside of work, Tim likes spending time with Nelson, his black Labrador (who sometimes visits the team at RDC HQ), and of course the rest of his family.
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About Aviation Economics, RDC Aviation: Aviation Economics is a consulting firm that works with aviation enterprises, including government agencies, airlines, and airports.
Nikolai Petrou
Finance and Data Director of Winmark
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About Winmark: Winmark is a network where C-suite executives can learn from their peers and engage in discussions.
Jonathan Lee
Commercial Director of Think Again Growth
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About Think Again Growth: Think Again Growth is a business growth expert that delivers game-changing growth fuelled by brain science.
Andrew Williamson
Director & Co-founder of Delv
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About Delv: Delv is a management and advisory firm that address the real issue of late payments.
Tom Barber
Director of Meteorite BI
Tom Barber has been a vocal Open Source Business Intelligence proponent for many years and currently holds the post of VP Apache OODT. He is well known in the Pentaho community having instigated a number of Pentaho community meetings in the UK and Europe. He has extensive experience of information management, business intelligence, data warehousing, and data integration with a range of technologies. Tom is also the project founder of the Apache Licensed Saiku OLAP Analysis Tool. When not hacking Open Source technologies Tom is the Technical Director of Meteorite Consulting, an open source focussed Business Intelligence consultancy.
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About Meteorite BI: Meteorite BI is the creator and main developer of Saiku.
David Clifton
Director of Clifton Davies Consultancy
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About Clifton Davies Consultancy: Clifton Davies Consultancy Ltd is a firm that specializes in management consulting.
Joe Kim
Managing Director/Partner of UPIN Fund Management
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About UPIN Fund Management, XnTree: UPIN is an investment and management consulting firm that helps to optimize its clients’ business solutions and meet its goals.
Daniel Cooper
Managing Director of Lolly Co
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About Lolly Co: Lolly Co is an international automation firm specializing in process optimization workshops and automation.
Simon Haynes
Director of Mobiq Group
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About Mobiq Group: Mobiq Group is the leading specialist consultancy on smart mobility and on-demand ground transport in Europe.
Roy Russell
Managing Director, CEO of Ascertus Limited
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About Ascertus Limited: Providing information and document lifecycle management consultancy, software solutions and IT support services to law firms.
Julia Porter
Partner and Board Director of Data Protection Network Associates
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About Data Protection Network Associates, Origin Housing: Data Protection Network Associates is a data protection consultancy that provides no-nonsense advice to customers.
Chris Nixon
Managing Director of CJN Ventures
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About CJN Ventures: CJN Ventures provides consultation services on managing and starting businesses.
Blaise Grimes-Viort
Founder & Managing Director of Is The Answer
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About Is The Answer: Is The Answer designs sustainable culture-driven networks and empowers people to deliver revenue, brand value, and product innovation.
Laure Claire Reillier
Co-founder and Director of Launchworks & Co
Laure Claire Reillier is a Director at Launchworks Ventures and specialises in marketing, product development and e-commerce. She has 20 years experience in developing, managing and marketing products and services for e-commerce, telecom and software companies. Laure Claire has deep expertise in B2B, B2C and C2C marketing. Before joining Launchworks, Laure Claire worked for 4 years at eBay where she was head of proposition development for sellers in Europe. She was in charge of product strategy and roadmap, positioning, customer experience (online and off-line), pricing and marketing communications. Before eBay, Laure Claire managed the P&L and development of VoIP and e-commerce services at BT Retail in the UK. She was responsible for the commercial development and launch of new services as well and the management (strategy, marketing and pricing) of existing services. She was previously Marketing and Business Development Director, at Goodman Blue, a VoIP software start-up, where she repositioned the company and its suite of products prior to its acquisition by American investors in 2006.
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About Launchworks & Co: Launchworks provide strategy and innovation advisory services to companies of any size.
Benoit Reillier
Managing Director of Launchworks & Co
Launchworks Ventures’ Managing Director, Benoit Reillier, specialises in strategy, training and innovative business models and ecosystems such as multisided platforms. He has been advising the boards and top management teams of many blue chip companies as well as regulators and Governments for the past 20 years. Prior to founding Launchworks Benoit was Director of Economics and Regulation at KPMG where he focused on strategic assignments for Telecommunications, Media and Technology clients globally. Benoit was previously Director of the TMT practice of expert firm LECG Europe (now FTI) and also worked as business development director of Telia Mobile International UK, the leading Nordic telecommunications group. Throughout his career Benoit has had the opportunity to work on and lead key strategic assignments that shaped the communications sector. He was instrumental in the development of regulatory frameworks in a number of countries and participated in large scale strategic assignments leading to the separation (or merger) of activities. Benoit also provided expert advice in the context of several multi billion dollar litigations and arbitrations. Benoit started his career under the aegis of the French government as a special advisor on telecom-related issues and was part of the team preparing the liberalisation of the French telecom sector in the 1990’s.
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About Launchworks & Co: Launchworks provide strategy and innovation advisory services to companies of any size.
Jamie Hancox
Managing Director of BuyingTime
BuyingTime’s founder Jamie has enjoyed a successful sales career in publishing sales, advertising and software solutions. Jamie looks after their clients, develops pitches and propositions for them, and does much of the really boring contact analysis work that makes us so successful.
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About BuyingTime: BuyingTime is a sales engagement business that delivers complex sales propositions into large organisations.
Jamie Hancox
Managing Director of BuyingTime
BuyingTime’s founder Jamie has enjoyed a successful sales career in publishing sales, advertising and software solutions. Jamie looks after their clients, develops pitches and propositions for them, and does much of the really boring contact analysis work that makes us so successful.
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About BuyingTime: BuyingTime is a sales engagement business that delivers complex sales propositions into large organisations.
