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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Director operating in the Professional Services 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.
Daniel Hurst
Principle Consultant & Practice Director, Enterprise DevOps Transformation of Contino
Daniel Hurst is a DevOps consultant specialising in defining and driving successful DevOps and Agile adoption within Financial Services organisations. He operates using a data-driven transformational approach: “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”.
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About Contino: Contino is a professional services consultancy providing a range of services for DevOps, Continuous Delivery, and Pragmatic Agile practices.
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Suchitra Nair
Director of Deloitte
Suchitra is a Director in the EMEA Centre for Regulatory Strategy, leading the work on Technological Innovation and Regulation. Her work focuses on assessing the strategic impact of technological innovation on regulation and the broader financial services ecosystem. Suchitra is a qualified Chartered Accountant and previously worked in Deloitte’s Audit, Corporate Finance and Regulatory Advisory teams.
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About Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
David Harris
Creative Director of Deloitte
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About Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Ian Burrows
Director, Brand and Engagement of Deloitte
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About Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Mark Williment
Director of Deloitte
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About Deloitte, Keytree: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Will Powell
Director Of Innovation of Deloitte
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About Deloitte, Keytree: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Shilpa Shah
Director of Deloitte
Shilpa Shah is a Director in the Deloitte Consulting practice with over 22 years of technology and data driven transformation experience and expertise. Shilpa is an innovator and disruptor who challenges the status quo. While leading data driven transformation for our clients, she has built different businesses within Deloitte. These include the Delivery Models capability and a business wide sales support function. She has also been leading Deloitte Pixel to establish a crowdsourcing capability and business within the firm. Passionate about improving equality and broadening participation in the technology industry, she also leads the Deloitte Women in Technology Network driving long term sustainable cultural change. She builds relationships and has created many partnerships with organisations outside of Deloitte to help them make an impact that matters, on the diversity in STEM agenda. Shilpa is also an Industry Advisory board member of the government and industry funded Institute of Coding which is focused on addressing the shortfall in digital skills for the UK.
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About Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Felix Lepetit
Director of Deloitte
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About Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Martin Bowman
Director, Aviation Digital Asset of Deloitte
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About Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Neil McRae
Managing Director and Chief Architect of BT Global Services
Named after Neil Armstrong, Neil has a personal purpose of working to connect as many people together as possible, and this is been a driving force in his career. Since the early nineties Neil has been a leading innovator in the Internet and Telecommunications industry: from using open software to create one of the first service providers in the UK, to building several Global Telecommunications and Internet Networks. Neil has significant knowledge and experience in IP technologies and also significant experience with Optical, Mobile, Voice, xDSL, MPLS and Ethernet. He ran Network Engineering at COLT for ten years, (where he also contributed to COLT’s datacentre build) and ran Network Engineering at Cable and Wireless for four years. For the last four years Neil has led BT’s global network strategy, culminating in extending BT’s leading position in the Gartner magic quadrant, and supporting significant global network expansion. In addition, Neil has worked to expand BT’s footprint and capability in the UK, from BT’s fibre network through to Ethernet, Broadband and TV services. Neil is one of two ‘Distinguished Engineers’ in BT. Neil has been involved in the start-up of many internet governance and supporting organisations, and has been a non-executive director of the London Internet Exchange for fifteen years. Neil has studied leadership and management at Sloan School of Management. He is married with one daughter and has a passion for motorsports and technology.
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About BT Global Services: BT Global Services plc is a division of United Kingdom telecommunications operator BT Group.
Steve Wilson
Consumer Digital Director of BT Global Services
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About BT Global Services: BT Global Services plc is a division of United Kingdom telecommunications operator BT Group.
Howard Watson
Managing Director – Architecture and Global IT Platforms of BT Global Services
Howard was appointed as CEO of BT’s Technology, Service and Operations division, and Group CIO, in January 2016. As CEO of TSO, Howard is in charge of the company’s ‘engine room’; thirteen thousand staff and eight thousand contractors responsible for BT’s core networks and IT systems across the globe. The division manages the company’s internal and external platforms – including TV, Mobile and Conferencing – as well as BT’s world class research and development arm at Adastral Park, Suffolk. BT TSO Previously, Howard was BT’s Chief Architect and MD Global IT Systems, and led the technical teams behind the launch of BT Sport in August 2013. In this role he also transformed the way software development is carried out at BT. He joined BT in October 2011, bringing 30 years of telecoms experience with him, including time spent at Virgin Media and Telewest, and as MD of Cartesian, a telecommunications consultancy and software company. Howard possesses a broad knowledge of technical and operational leadership with expertise in engineering, strategic development and business transformation. His areas of expertise include telephony, digital TV, IP services, high definition TV and ‘ultra’ high speed broadband. He also has experience of integrating networks and IT from his time in the cable industry, experience that will prove useful as BT integrates its network with EE’s. Howard is 53 years old with three children, and is also a qualified pilot.
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About BT Global Services: BT Global Services plc is a division of United Kingdom telecommunications operator BT Group.
Guillaume Sampic
Strategy Director and Internet of Things of BT Global Services
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About BT Global Services: BT Global Services plc is a division of United Kingdom telecommunications operator BT Group.
Lola Fernandez-Redondo
Senior Associate Director of Jacobs
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About Jacobs: Jacobs leads the global professional services sector delivering solutions for a more connected, sustainable world.
Barry Borhani
Associate Director of Ernst & Young
A senior executive with over 30 years’ experience in Oil & gas and engineering; recent roles in Global super majors (BG-Group/Shell), Big 4 Consultancy (EY and PwC) and Management Contracting companies (KBR, Halliburton). Strong project management /Project controls , contract and procurement, analytical expertise obtained whilst working on major global programs ($100MM to $23 Billion) in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
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About CPEC.ai, Ernst & Young, Harvey Milton: Ernst & Young is a provider of assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services.
David Pybus
Director of Ernst & Young
David Pybus is a Director in the EY Cybersecurity team and routinely helps clients with improving their cybersecurity programmes. David has twenty years experience in cybersecurity, much of it gleaned from previous roles in industry. He has first hand experience of managing the securing, scanning and patching of systems going from long since out of support operating systems all the way through to considering how to manage the patching levels of modern cloud and mobile environments
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About Ernst & Young: Ernst & Young is a provider of assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services.
Thomas Bull
Director of Ernst & Young
Tom Bull is a Director in the FinTech team at EY, based in London. He has led a range of research projects in the sector for the UK Government and the European Commission, including analysis of the FinTech ecosystem, P2P lending and crowdfunding sectors. He also leads major research work by EY including the EY FinTech Adoption Index, which identifies level of traction that FinTech is gaining with consumers. Tom’s background is in corporate finance and has worked on both cross boarder and domestic M&A processes. He has led acquisition and disposal processes for clients across various European countries as well as within Asia.
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About Ernst & Young, Ernst & Young: Ernst & Young is a provider of assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services.
Andrew Michael
CEO, Director & Founder of Bark.com
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About Bark.com: A new better way to buy services online
Jill Collighan
Finance Director of MXC Capital
Jill is the finance director of the advisory subgroup. She qualified as a chartered certified accountant in 1994, initially joining Lathams, before leaving to set up her own accountancy consultancy business. Jill has worked with Broca since 2002 and has been a director since 2004. Jill has extensive experience of finance, human resources, investor relations and corporate finance. Jill is currently CFO of 365 Agile Group plc.
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About MXC Capital: MXC Capital is an investment and advisory group specializing in the technology, media and telecommunications sector.
Andrew Gore
Non Executive Director of Genmed
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About Genmed: Genmed is a provider of vendor-neutral, flexible, scalable managed services to the NHS, Health Boards, and private healthcare organizations.
Kay Andrews
Executive Director of Agilisys
Kay is the Executive Director of Agilisys, and has more than two decades of global IT and Business Services experience. Kay was the former CEO of Agilisys and now holds the role on the Agilisys Board focused on expanding key client relationships and setting the direction for expansion and growth of the company. Her track record of achievement demonstrates her ability to combine sustainable business growth with effective customer management and service delivery. Prior to working at Agilisys, Kay spent 13 years at Perot Systems and 3 years as Executive Director for Local Government at Liberata. Kay holds a first class degree in Mathematics and an MBA.
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About Agilisys: Agilisys is an innovative IT and business software and services providers.
Louise Ah-Wong
Managing Director – Transformation of Agilisys
Louise is a Senior Partner in the Transformation Division within Agilisys, she is responsible for developing new business, managing external Partners, overseeing work and developing Transformation “wrappers” and Programmes for clients.
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About Agilisys, Agilisys: Agilisys is an innovative IT and business software and services providers.
Mark Gordon
Commercial Director of Agilisys
As the Commercial Director for Agilisys, Mark is responsible for client satisfaction and commercial growth. Mark has previously worked for Agilisys in the AGMA region. Mark brings a wealth of external experience to the Commercial Director role from a variety of positions in the consulting, contracting and outsourcing industries. His background encompasses global, PLC and private equity businesses.
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About Agilisys: Agilisys is an innovative IT and business software and services providers.
Simon Mounsey
Human Resources Director of Agilisys
Simon is responsible for HR and Resourcing across our company, including our partnerships. Since joining Agilisys in 2003 from major recruitment provider, Manpower, Simon has been responsible for implementing Agilisys’ Performance Management Framework and for the HR transition delivery of each of our Strategic Partnerships.
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About Agilisys: Agilisys is an innovative IT and business software and services providers.
James Cook
Associate Director of 150BOND
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About 150BOND: Global Advisory
Simon O’Meara
Director & Consultant Solicitor of Oakmere Law
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About Find a Lawyer UK, Oakmere Law: Oakmere Law provides legal consultancy services and specialists.
Volker Buscher
Director of Arup
Volker Buscher is a Director of Arup and the leader of their IT and Communications Systems practice. A project director for public and private sector clients in the UK, Europe, Middle East, Arfrica and SE Asia. Volker is part of the Future of Cities leadership team in Arup. A multi-disciplinary group developing strategies and solutions for cities striving to deliver a great place to live and work, decoupled from critical resource constrains. Volker is a member of the Smart London Board advising the Mayor of London regarding the role of technology in the economic, environmental and social development of our great city and a member of the national Smart City Forum chaired by UK Ministers Clarke and Willets.
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About Arup: Arup is an independent firm of designers, planners, engineers and technical specialists offering a broad range of professional services.
Paul Dollin
Executive Director of WSP Global
Paul Dollin is a Chief Operating Officer at WSP Global Inc. Paul, a Chartered Engineer joined WSP in 2010 as Managing Director of the UK business and Executive Director of WSP Group plc. Paul has since been appointed MD, UK/Middle East/Africa/India/Asia Pacific and made a member of WSP’s current Executive Team. Prior to joining WSP and following a period with British Energy, Paul Dollin joined Atkins, a leading engineering and design consultancy, in 1999. With Atkins he held a number of roles, including Managing Director of their Design and Engineering business and member of its Executive Committee. Paul holds a Ph.D. in material science from University of Leeds, UK.
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About WSP Global: WSP is one of the world’s leading professional services firm.
Tom Smith
Global Director – Property & Buildings of WSP Global
Tom Smith, BSc (Hons), MBA, CEng MIMechE, is the Global Director, Property and Buildings at WSP Global. Tom has been with WSP since 1994 and has held a number of senior business leadership positions with their UK, Middle East and India regions as well as being closely associated with many of WSP’s flagship projects and strategic clients. Since 2010 Tom has focused his efforts on their global agenda and has been instrumental in developing their global culture, connectivity and services. Tom has worked throughout the Group with regional management to develop global initiatives focused on market sectors, global clients and major project bids. In 2013 Tom Smith joined the Company’s Executive Team, and in January 2014 he was appointed Global Director, Property and Buildings, to focus on achieving WSP’s strategic goal of being recognised as the leading Property and Buildings consultancy by 2015.
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About WSP Global: WSP is one of the world’s leading professional services firm.
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.
Janis Thomas
Marketing Director of deltatre
Janis joined Deltatre, a global leader in the sport business, at the beginning of 2019. She is an expert in using digital marketing to deliver sales and revenue growth in subscription and ecommerce businesses. She has grown diverse brands from Birchbox to Playboy. She has held senior consumer marketing roles at digital media and entertainment businesses across film, TV and publishing. Janis will be responsible for leading Deltatre’s B2C marketing. This function will help Deltatre’s sport and entertainment clients grow their direct-to-consumer streaming subscription services.
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About deltatre: deltatre is a sports media services company that provides consulting services for videos, webs, graphics, and sports businesses.
Steve Robinson
Managing Director and CEO of Little Fish (UK)
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About Little Fish (UK): Littlefish is an award winning and rapidly growing Managed IT Services Provider.
Richard Roome
Services Director of Little Fish (UK)
A father of two young and energetic boys aged 3 and 6 Richard has his hands full at home but in his down time he enjoys playing tennis and cricket, long days watching cricket and catching up with friends. At Littlefish Richard is Services Director and co-owner, responsible for existing clients, transitioning new clients, contract renewals and service improvements. Passionate about the Littlefish service, Richard has been responsible for shaping the Littlefish Service Delivery teams and with an attention for detail is driven to ensure the service is of the highest quality. After initially working in the Wind Energy industry undertaking Environmental Impact Assessments, he has 20 years of experience in the IT industry, initially from a technical perspective moving thereafter to operational and service management roles. Richard has been involved in a number of successful high growth start-up ventures as well as Operational Management and Service Account Management roles for major clients at ComputerLand UK Plc and Capita IT Services.
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About Chimata Gold Corp, Little Fish (UK): Littlefish is an award winning and rapidly growing Managed IT Services Provider.
Joe McCarthy
Sales Director of Little Fish (UK)
Also a new father, Joe is getting to grips with a baby boy and enjoys reminiscing about uninterrupted night’s sleep, travel, wine, road biking, days at the cricket and old property restoration. Joe is Sales Director and co-owner at Littlefish and looks after new business growth, contract negotiations, commercial partnerships and marketing. He is a Law and Economics graduate from Liverpool University with over 15 years of B2B IT sales experience, commercial modelling and contract negotiation. He first cut his teeth at British Telecom before moving up the gears at small to mid-market IT & Telco firm PSU Technology Group. As Head of Sales for the IT Support division at PSU, Joe secured major national private and public sector contracts for mid-range IBM, Unix and Wintel support contracts and implemented the sales and marketing plan from the IT maintenance division. Business Development Manager roles at ComputerLand UK Plc and Capita IT Services have given him broad exposure to IT Outsourcing and constructing tailored, managed IT services contracts in the public and private sector. Joe was awarded Managed Services salesman of the year at Capita IT Services in 2008, before joining the executive management team that acquired Littlefish in 2010. Joe looks after all front-line new business and has grown Littlefish total managed service revenue by >25% YoY to date.
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About Little Fish (UK): Littlefish is an award winning and rapidly growing Managed IT Services Provider.
William Allan
Regional Managing Director Scotland, Ireland & Investments of Currie & Brown (Australia)
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About Currie & Brown (Australia): Currie & Brown is a project services consultancy firm.
Alastair Bloore
Group Risk and Compliance Director of Currie & Brown (Australia)
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About Currie & Brown (Australia): Currie & Brown is a project services consultancy firm.
Oliver Godfrey
Finance Director of Makers
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About Makers: Our mission is to transform lives: accelerating the careers of tech professionals by integrating education and employment.
Peter Busby
Managing Director of Grayce
Peter is a founder and director at Grayce. With over 25 years’ experience as a management consultant and a board adviser, Peter’s high standards of professionalism and commitment mean he is well placed to lead the management team at Grayce. Working closely with the management team, analysts and clients is what drives Peter to deliver an outstanding service.
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About Grayce: Grayce is provides change management services for organizations.
Joel O’Connor
Creative Director of AB Communications
Joel is a multi-award winning, multi-disciplinary designer who leads and inspires AB’s design team to challenge and push boundaries. He has launched magazines, campaigns, digital platforms, and brands – internally and externally – for some of the UK’s biggest companies. Before joining AB in 2011, Joel spent the best part of a decade working as art director for various publishing houses, design and content agencies. During that time, Joel was awarded the prestigious IPAC’s designer of the year award. He puts the audience at the heart of everything he does and strives to create meaningful work that cuts through the noise and tells our clients’ stories. Joel believes that while certain design rules can’t be broken, the rest is up for grabs.
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About AB Communications: AB Communications helps organizations reach their full potential by engaging, informing, and inspiring their audiences.
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Director of Health and Safety Services of Ellis Whittam
Nick joined Ellis Whittam in 2013 from a national commercial legal practice where he was head of Health & Safety and Environmental Services supporting clients in the private and public sectors. Previously, Nick worked as EHS Manager for the cereal manufacturing division of Nestle and prior to that he served as an Inspector for the HSE in the North West carrying out investigative and enforcement activities across all industry sectors. Whilst with the HSE, Nick spent a two year period of secondment in the power generation sector where he undertook research on new work at height legislation in collaboration with Aston University and prepared his MSc thesis on behavioural safety and rule violation modifiers. Nick has various professional accreditations including CMIOSH and MIIRSM, is a member of the IOSH Council and is an accredited trainer for IOSH and CIEH. He is a regular contributor to safety journals and an accomplished speaker.
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About Ellis Whittam: Ellis Whittam is an Employment Law, HR and Health & Safety support for UK employers.
Andrew White
Commercial Director of Ellis Whittam
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About Ellis Whittam: Ellis Whittam is an Employment Law, HR and Health & Safety support for UK employers.
Edward Weir
Director of Swale Academies Trust
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About Swale Academies Trust: Swale Academies Trust provides professional development assistance to primary and secondary schools.
J. Nicholas Starritt
Managing Director of Sirota Consulting
Nick Starritt joined Sirota as a Partner in 2002 after leaving BP plc., where he had been the Group Vice-President Human Resources since 1998. In his time at BP, Nick led the global HR function as BP grew to become the UK’s largest organization, through a series of mergers & acquisitions. During this period, he was recognized by different external awards as the UK’s top HR professional. Before this role, Nick was Head of Financial Services for the European joint venture between BP and Mobil Oil, based in Brussels, and before that, General Manager of Shared Services for Mobil’s European & African business. His earlier career was characterized by successive senior roles within Mobil’s international Human Resources function, based in the USA and UK and working globally on various organization change, remuneration and HR projects. Since joining Sirota, Nick has successfully built the EMEA operation, acquiring many well-known clients such as Shell, Rolls-Royce, Qatar-RasGas, ING, TNT and the European Bank. Between 2003 and 2009 he was also a non-executive director of Northgate Information Solutions, a FTSE 200 company, and is currently a Director of the Performance & Reward Centre (Parc).
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About Mercer, Sirota Consulting: Sirota Consulting is a global provider of employee engagement solutions that offers the full breadth of organizational assessments, surveys.
Rachel Stock
Group HR Director of Camelot Group
Rachel Stock is a Group HR Director at Trinity Mirror.
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About Camelot Group, Reach plc: Camelot Group Plc is a company that provides national lottery games.
Rob Janering
VAT Director – Crowe UK of Crowe LLP
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About Crowe LLP: Crowe LLP is a public accounting, consulting, and technology firm.
Andrew Preston
Technology Director of Symphony Ventures
Andrew is an experienced software developer and architect, having worked in the software industry for much of his career. He also has extensive experience using automation tools, and developing digital operations programs across a variety of sectors including healthcare, insurance, recruitment, HR and payroll. At Symphony, he is responsible for system infrastructure, network operations, and for leading a global delivery excellence organization charged with ensuring world-class design, configuration and support across the entire Symphony client portfolio.
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About SYKES Digital Services, Symphony Ventures: Symphony is a professional services firm passionate about creating value for the world’s leading organizations.
David Philipps
Managing Director of Construct
David Philipps is the CEO of Construct, a global digital learning company, where he manages the company’s fast-growing business and leads a growing team across the U.S., U.K, Middle East and South Africa. He is responsible for leading the day to day operational delivery, the commercial engagements, investor relations and for driving the culture of high performance across the company in addition to agreeing the strategic direction of the company with the board.
David was previously CFO of Bank of America EMEA Emerging Markets (CEEMEA) which he developed in to a world class finance team. A seasoned executive with a background in both consulting and finance, David excelled at organising and driving large scale strategic programmes across Bank of Americas international finance space, creating commercial insights, efficiencies, control enhancements and improved people engagement. David was well respected by both his team and the Bank of America finance leadership for his high energy levels, natural enthusiasm and his results orientated pragmatic approach to bringing clarity and organisation to complex situations. He was promoted to CFO of the CEEMEA group after demonstrating a strong track record of performance leading the EMEA Finance Control Group through the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash.
Before joining Bank of America, David spent 5 years consulting within the Finance and Performance Management Global Service Line at Accenture, running multiple successful projects in the UK, Europe and Asia. David qualified as an accountant and corporate treasurer at telecoms company Global Marine Systems Ltd in 2003 before joining Accenture.
David is a passionate endurance athlete having completed swims across the English channel and straits of Gibraltar. He is currently working towards the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc and enjoying supporting his daughters with their own swimming and running endeavours.
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About Construct: Construct helps organizations with learners, like schools and employers, create beautiful, cutting edge digital learning experiences.
John Keelan Edwards
Driver Risk Management & Group Technology Services Director of Specialist People Services Group
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About Specialist People Services Group: Specialist People Services Group provides businesses that share a common commitment to delivering outstanding customer service.
James Browne
Director of 4 Roads
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About 4 Roads, Hydro Guard, Scubacraft: 4 Roads is an online community specialist and implementation expert.
Norman Frankel
Regional Managing Director- UK/Europe of Stanchion
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About Stanchion: Stanchion provides payments security, consulting, payment management support and systems integration solutions for banks and credit unions.
Nigel White
Business Development Director of Bellrock
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About Bellrock, Property Solutions UK Ltd: Bellrock Property & Facilities Management provides a property and facilities manager.
David Bezem
Non-Executive Director of Harvey Nash plc
David joined the Board of Focusrite in November 2014 bringing with him more than 25 years of experience of providing merger and acquisitions and general corporate finance advice to UK small and mid-market public and private companies. Most recently he was a Managing Director at Altium Corporate Finance between 2009 and 2011 and, prior to that, a Managing Director at Close Brothers Corporate Finance where he worked between 1999 and 2008. David qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen & Co. in 1984. Currently, David is a Non-Executive Director at Harvey Nash Group Plc where he is also Chairman of the Remuneration Committee.
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About : Harvey Nash operates as a global employment agency in London, United Kingdom.
Tim Radford
Non-executive Director of Timico
Tim founded Timico in 2004 and continues to be a member of the company’s Board. Earlier in his career, following the sale of his corporate entertainment business, Chatters Entertainment, Tim founded the Project Telecom Group in 1987 and managed its development and growth as an independent telecommunications service provider. The company floated on the London Stock Exchange in September 2000 and continued to grow rapidly, achieving revenues of £330m in 2002. In September 2003, the company was successfully sold to Vodafone for £162m.
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About Timico: Timico is an end-to-end managed cloud service provider of supplying business strength IP solutions.
Harshdeep Singh
Director of Operations- EMEA of Cloudwick
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About Cloudwick: Leading Provider of Big Data Services and Solutions to the Global 1000
Kirsty Carr
Founding Director of Carli Consulting
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About Carli Consulting: Carli Consulting provides consulting services and solutions to companies going through procurement.
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.
Howard Pyman
Technical Director of Liss Systems
A founder member and director of LISS Systems, Howard has been involved both in the management of IT and Operations of end-user companies, and of software development and installation for a variety of national and international insurance based companies. This has included both General and Life, from broking and underwriting perspectives. Howard and Derek have together provided the vision and insight for the LISSIA system, which embodies their combined experience of the life industry. Most life administration platforms claim to be flexible, open and easy to change, but the design of LISSIA has proven outstanding in its inherent flexibility to support sophisticated products and newer, web-based business models. Howard remains at the forefront of design and specification of new function, seeing this through into development and delivery. He also manages and oversees the technical direction of all client versions of LISSIA. Howard has successfully delivered many large development and implementation projects, including those for Ageas in the UK, and Aviva Insurance in India.
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About Liss Systems: Liss Systems provides policy administration solutions.
Peter Barron
Associate Director of Liss Systems
Peter joined LISS in 2002, after leaving university where he achieved a first class honours degree in Computer Science. He was instrumental in the technical design of the LISSIA group version of the system and the implementation in 2003/2004 to Generali. Offering key technical input into the development of the LISSIA product suite over a number of years, Pete progressed to LISS Technical Architect in 2007 at the initiation of a project for Munich Re. In 2008 Pete was given the additional responsibility of heading up the onsite LISS project and team at Munich Re. On his return to LISS in 2009 he led the design, development and implementation of the eLISSIA product suite. Pete continues to drive the strategic technical design and development of the eLISSIA system.
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About Liss Systems: Liss Systems provides policy administration solutions.
David Hanley
Managing Director of Liss Systems
David has been with LISS Systems since 2000, a director of the company from 2001 and Managing Director since 2007. He started out in the late 1970s at Guardian Royal Exchange plc (then a top three UK composite insurer) in their Asset Management subsidiary after completing a Masters degree in Economics. He moved into a Group business management role later on where he gained extensive experience of both Life and General insurance business worldwide. After AXA Insurance acquired Guardian he worked as a director on a number of programme management and change management assignments before moving to LISS systems. David has responsibility for the day-to-day management of LISS Systems and is actively involved across all LISSIA projects and clients. He works closely with the other directors in areas of business development, resourcing and relationships with clients and strategic partners.
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About Liss Systems: Liss Systems provides policy administration solutions.
Rebecca Kalra
National Communications Manager, Associate Director of Avison Young
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About Avison Young: Avison Young is a retail company that specializes in making full use of our agency, investment and lease advisory skills.
Michael Sheehan
Managing Director – UK and Ireland of Systems@work
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About Systems@work: Systems@work is a leading provider of expense management, time recording and professional services automation solutions.
David Wilde
Owner and Managing Director of Dwilde Consulting
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About Dwilde Consulting: Dwilde Consulting is a consulting agency that provides expertise in the field of commercial sectors, IT, and digital leadership.
Amanda Fish
Human Resources & Training Manager & Operations Director of Advantage Property Lawyers
Amanda is a highly experienced fee earner and qualified trainer and has worked in legal firms for over 14 years. She is an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute for Professional Development. Amanda primarily handles complex cases as well as overseeing one of our conveyancing teams Amanda also oversees the training carried out with the firm and is responsible with Rob and Glen for our recruitment activities.
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About Advantage Property Lawyers: Advantage Property Lawyers is an independent business led by conveyancing specialists with vast experience in the marketplace.
Glen Kermode
Operations Director of Advantage Property Lawyers
Glen qualified as a Licensed Conveyancer in 2007 and joined APL’s Management Board in 2012. Glen deals with all aspects of residential conveyancing and manages 3 of our teams. Glen also has responsibility for our IT strategy and works closely with our IT manager to ensure the firm is adopting best practice in technology.
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About Advantage Property Lawyers: Advantage Property Lawyers is an independent business led by conveyancing specialists with vast experience in the marketplace.
Rob Lewis
Head of Legal Practice & Operations Director of Advantage Property Lawyers
Rob is a highly experienced lawyer, having qualified as a Solicitor in 2002 and additionally qualified as a Licensed Conveyancer in 2009. He primarily handles complex and high net worth cases as well as overseeing 3 of our conveyancing teams. Rob also oversees our Post Completion Team and is responsible with Glen for our recruitment activities. Rob is another of the firm’s founding members.
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About Advantage Property Lawyers: Advantage Property Lawyers is an independent business led by conveyancing specialists with vast experience in the marketplace.
Luke Rehbein
Director, Patent and Trade Mark Recruitment Specialist of Dawn Ellmore Employment
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About Dawn Ellmore Employment: Dawn Ellmore Employment is a market leading legal and intellectual property recruitment agency.
Dawn Ellmore
Director, Patent and Trade Mark Recruitment Specialist of Dawn Ellmore Employment
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About Dawn Ellmore Employment: Dawn Ellmore Employment is a market leading legal and intellectual property recruitment agency.
Paul O’Dowd
Founder & Managing Director of Global iSupport
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About Global iSupport: Global iSupport provides consultation services on improving processes for business growth.
Tim Wild
Executive Director of The Cyber Training Centre
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About The Cyber Training Centre: The Cyber Training Centre is a complete employee learning management platform and solution for business.
Lucy Matthews
Director of LJ Matthews
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About LJ Matthews: LJ Matthews provides financial services, digital technology, and enterprise systems for blue-chip companies in the UK and Europe.
Kirsty Heath
Sales Director of DeHavilland
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About DeHavilland: DeHavilland is a definitive provider of political insight and intelligence in the UK and EU.
Damian Bond
Director of Db5 Consulting
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About Db5 Consulting: Db5 Consulting is a web design company that specializes in designs and develops carbon zero turbines for industrial applications.
Mike Ransome
Managing Director of MCR Broadcast Hire
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About MCR Broadcast Hire: MCR Broadcast Hire provides expertise in providing a complete working solution in the field of broadcasting.
Alex Johnson
Managing Director – Tracsis Customer Experience of Tracsis
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About Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, Tracsis: The Tracsis Group is a leading international provider of software and services for the planning and management of mass transit operations.
Niels Footman
Managing Director, UK and Europe of Copylab Inc
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About Copylab Inc: Copylab is an investment writing and copywriting agency.
Mike Worthington
Director, International Product Management and Pre-Sales of SD Worx
Mike Worthington is part of the Global Leadership Team at SD Worx, one of the largest HR & Payroll providers in Europe proving services in 91 countries, with over 65,000 customers and 4,100 employees. Mike and his colleagues are responsible for the SD Worx International business. His main objective is to deliver transformational products and services to the International market. Mike is particularly passionate about engaging customers to help ensure that SD Worx global solutions address customer needs and help make a real difference in their business.
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About SD Worx: SD Worx can help you to harmonize the entire management of your international employment.
Joel Gill
Director of The Human Centered Design Society
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About The Human Centered Design Society: The Human Centered Design Society a not-for-profit organisation created to promote Human Centered Design (HCD) as a community of practice.
Karen Smith
Education & Training Committee Director of The Human Centered Design Society
Specialising in education management, widening participation, positive student experience including public events, work related learning, quality enhancement, management, and student achievement, CPD, curriculum development and validation, research, consultancy and enterprise strategies, promotion and recruitment including events and social media, digital teaching and learning, equal opportunities, health and safety, DDS, teaching Foundation, UG and PG in Media and Arts. Teaching and research specialities: World cinema, contemporary European and British cinema, film marketing, heritage, epic, cult and exploitation film and television, media exhibition and distribution, film festivals and media audiences. Audience research and marketing. Participant observation and oral histories.
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About : The Human Centered Design Society a not-for-profit organisation created to promote Human Centered Design (HCD) as a community of practice.
Simon Breakspear
IT, Supervision & Training Director of PRIMIS Mortgage Network
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About PRIMIS Mortgage Network: PRIMIS Mortgage Network is a mortgage and protection network that provides financial services.
Damien Field
Managing Director of MM-Eye
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About MM-Eye: MM-Eye is a market research agency, specialising in quant, qual and online research for the automotive and mobility industries.
Karen Levesley
Research Director of MM-Eye
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About MM-Eye: MM-Eye is a market research agency, specialising in quant, qual and online research for the automotive and mobility industries.
Meg Rudman-Walsh
Associate Director of MM-Eye
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About MM-Eye: MM-Eye is a market research agency, specialising in quant, qual and online research for the automotive and mobility industries.
Christine Stewart
Managing Director of Macresco
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About Macresco: Macresco helps business leaders to build high-performing workplaces, motivate and retain a productive workforce.
Neil Trigwell
Engineering & Technology Director of Exova Group
Dr Neil Trigwell qualified as a metallurgist in 1976 prior to commencing a PhD in which he studied the application of fracture mechanics to high temperature crack growth. He has subsequently spent the last 37 years in the field of materials, component and structural testing with particular focus on fatigue and fracture of metals. He is currently Sector Technical Director for the Oil, Gas and Industrials Sector of Exova Ltd. and a member of the Exova Additive Manufacturing Strategy Team.
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About Exova Group: Exova Group is a providers of testing, calibration and advisory.
Mike Josypenko
Senior Director of Special Projects of The Institute of Export International Trade
Mike Josypenko has been involved in various aspects of international trade for more than 35 years. Mike is a language graduate, with an extensive background in international freight and logistics: Mike has also worked in export sales for UK manufacturers, developing new business streams in Europe and beyond, and dealing with Blue Chip clients, distributors and agents. Most recently, he has worked for a leading trade association, helping companies to expand their export activity, and now works for the Institute of Export & International Trade, as Senior Director for Special Projects. Mike delivers export training to companies, operates a helpline service for members and works as a tutor on the Institute’s professional qualifications programme. Mike possesses a wealth of practical experience in various elements of international trade, including export sales, freight and Customs procedures, regulatory and compliance issues. He has experience of selling into many emerging and growth markets with companies of all sizes and industry sectors
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About The Institute of Export International Trade: The Institute of Export International Trade is a trade school that offers a unique range of individual and business membership benefits.
Ben Moss
Managing Director of Robertson Cooper Ltd
Ben Moss is Managing Director @ Robertson Cooper Ltd.
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About Robertson Cooper Ltd: Robertson Cooper is a company that promote benefits to employee well-being.
Tony Vaughan
Managing Director of Vexus
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About Vexus: Merger & Acquisitions
Martin Campbell
Director of BEACON STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS
Martin Campbell works as a Founder and Director at BEACON STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS.
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About BEACON STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS: Financial Services
Alison Saunders
Director of Public Prosecutions of Crown Prosecution Service
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About Crown Prosecution Service: The Crown Prosecution Service is responsible for criminal prosecutions in England & Wales.
