Charles Webb

Charles is a highly experienced professional with more than 20 years’ track record in industry for companies as diverse as Royal Mail Group, Vodafone, Littlewoods, Alliance Trust Savings and British Telecom.  He specialises in complex change programmes, often involving IT, and has worked on a number of the UK’s largest integration and transformation projects.  His experience includes working as the programme director for the Royal Mail Group’s £60 million SAP HR implementation project, Programme Director for Vodafone / Orange on the shared RAN deal responsible for ultimate delivery and regulatory clearance.  Programme manager for integration of Littlewoods’ publishing businesses and the turnaround of a failing business change programme for the company.  Programme director for the post acquisition integration of Wolanski Trustees for Alliance Trust Savings.

Charlotte Derrick

Charlotte has more than 10 years’ experience of project delivery in both the private & public sectors, for organisations including Thames Water, Cheltenham & Gloucester, AXA UK, Orange, Vodafone and Cable & Wireless. She is an experienced Programme Office professional with a track record of ensuring projects are successfully delivered on time and on budget, performing a wide range of roles from project planning and tracking through to programme governance, RAID and change request management, stakeholder management and internal and external communications.

Her experience includes programme office manager planning, reporting & analysis for Thames Water’s Asset Owner/Service Provider Change Programme, Programme Office Manager for the implementation of the joint venture between Cheltenham & Gloucester and Northern Rock, Programme office support for the implementation of Orange UK’s CRM Change Programme.

Dale Squire

Dale has worked for over 20 years in a variety of senior management roles in both the public and private sector for organizations as diverse as Northamptonshire County Council, Suffolk County Council, Scottish Water, Network Rail and Anglian Water.  He is a highly experienced Programme Manager specialising in large projects focused on asset intensive industries, successfully leading all phases of the programme lifecycle including business change, systems development and business process re-engineering.  His experience includes  Programme Director business transformation at Scottish Water covering all aspects of metering, billing, call centre and credit management operations; Programme manager Northamptonshire Council’s transformation programme to re-organise the top four layers of the management structure, Programme Director Suffolk County Council’s £1.5 billion waste procurement programme.  Lead adviser to the CEO of Network Rail during the asset management project to take Railtrack PLC out of administration.

Greg Hains

Greg has more than 18 years experience in the IS industry, working in both the public and private sectors for companies as diverse as Thames Water, AMP Capital Investors, BP, London Underground, HM Customs & Excise, Network Rail and British Energy. He specialises in developing the strategy for implementation of challenging business transformation projects which deliver both shareholder and stakeholder value.  Greg’s experience includes the Programme Assurance manager of a major SAP implementation programme for Thames Water; Programme manager for the re-implementation of SAP and ORACLE at BP, Strategy and architecture manager for HM Customs & Excise during its £320 million e-Business change programme, Programme manager of the migration of fixed interest, derivative, equity and externally managed funds into new trading solutions for AMP Capital Investors and also the overhaul of the company’s failing risk compliance project.

Guy Moas

Guy has over ten years’ experience in senior management roles across a wide range of industry sectors and companies, including AXA, Rosgosstrakh the Russian insurer, Swiss Life and Scottish Widows. His expertise lies in development and delivery of business critical information technology projects aimed at delivering cost efficiencies and increased business efficiency across key business units.  His work experience includes roles as Senior delivery manager at Rosgosstrakh, where he turned around a failing project to deliver on time and on budget;  Development Manager in the UK for projects involving AXA, Scottish Widows, Swiss Life, PrefSure and Metlife, Technical implementation Director for G3 Vision UK a provider of internet security and authentication solutions.

Ian Reeves

Ian is an industry professional with more than 15 years’ experience working across a variety of sectors for companies as diverse as Vodafone, Thames Water, FIS Software and Airbus. He specialises in managing programme support offices (PSO), internal communications for large programmes within multi-national organisations and multi-cultural industries.  In particular, he focuses upon auditing and improving internal communication processes, procedures and requirements.  His experience has included the PSOSAP implementation project for Thames Water, Programme internal communications manger to Orange and Vodafone during the implementation of a large JV and the development and implementation of Airbus’s UK internal communications programme.

Jacqui Gully

Jacqui has more than 15 years’ experience in Programme office  & project management roles within some of the UK’s largest organisations including Thames Water, NPI (AMP (UK)), AXA Life, FIRSTPLUS Finance and Littlewoods Shop Direct Group. She specialises in Programme Office and Operational quality Manager roles, ensuring that the methodology and governance of business critical projects are in place to deliver key business and stakeholder objectives.  Her experience includes the development and implementation of a full change strategy for Firstplus Finance, implementation of  the supporting governance and control framework for AXA life, programme governance for the Littlewoods Shop Direct business optimisation programme, development of the project management methodology within NPI (AMP UK) creating a structured and disciplined approach to programme control in areas such as risk and issue management, programme planning, MIS and resource management.

Kevan Mossman

Kevan is a management professional with over 25 years’ experience in delivering change and benefits in many public and private industries including Anglian Water, HM Customs & Excise, Littlewoods, Network Rail, British Energy, Vodafone, Orange, Macquarie Bank, Thames water.  He has held board-level operational roles at Scottish Power, Southern water and is presently managing director of Vizone.  Kevan excels in delivering complex and innovative business transformation programmes in difficult often hostile stakeholder environments (acquisitions, business recovery, mergers, licence conditions). He has unique experience in marrying together the People, Process, Information and Technology elements of change ensuring each supports the other to produce sustainable business improvement.  His experience includes, Programme Director Thames Water Asset Owner Service Provider Change Programme; Programme Director Southern Water Way Ahead Change Programme, Programme director AWS transformation programme; Delivery Manager Littlewoods Direct Transformation Programme; Programme Director Acquisition of Railtrack by Network Rail; Asset manager for Macquarie bank for acquisition of Southern Water; Delivery Manager Vodafone and Orange Shared RAN JV; Programme Director British Energy CAPEX transformation programme. 

Nicky Simmons

Nicky has 20 years’ experience in delivering business and IT change programmes across a wide range of sectors and companies including Scottish Widows, Unum, Thames Water, Old Mutual and NCR. She specialises in delivering complex business transformation projects, specifically the development, implementation and delivery of new organisational or business operating models. 
Her experience includes  Project Director for the delivery of life and pensions software for clients of FIS Life & Pensions Software; the transformation of front and back office operating models for the pensions, life, healthcare and distribution divisions of Old Mutual and the transformation of the EMEA technical services model for field and remote services for NCR.

Paul Griffiths

Paul is a senior professional with 20 years’ experience in industry working across a wide range of sectors for companies as diverse as NEI Parsons, Morrisons, Vodafone, Littlewoods, BP Chemicals and Norcros.  His expertise lies in the delivery of major change initiatives and large scale integration programmes, often with an IT focus.  He specialises in delivering major projects from the initial strategy phase, through implementation to the ultimate delivery phase, with positive and measurable effects on shareholder value.  His experience includes leading  major business transformation assignments for some of the UK’s largest companies, Programe Architect and Design authority Vodafone / Orange JV; Design Authority and PSO lead for the largest retail integration in Europe for Littlewoods Shop Direct Group; Design authority manager Morrisons SAP and business change programme; Programme Architect for a major web-based learning management implementation programme in the UK for Maritz, the US management services company.

Phil Turner

Phil has more than 15 years’ experience in delivering large scale integration and change management programmes across a wide variety of sectors and companies, including BSkyB, Royal Bank of Scotland, NatWest and Littlewoods. He has a wealth of experience in programme set-up, recovery and delivery.  His experience includes IT Programme Director at Littlewoods responsible for the implementation of an IT integration programme; Release Manager for BSkyB responsible for aligned release management processes  and delivery of application change across web, broadcasting scheduling and airtime sales platforms;  Programme Manager at Royal Bank of Scotland for the NatWest merger with responsibility for ensuring the NatWest business operations functioned on the RBS system prior to migration and Programme Director for the Morrisons SAP and business change programme.

Ram Gabay

Ram has more than 10 years’ experience in the IT industry with experience of working across a wide range of sectors and companies, including Rosgosstrakh, Russia’s largest insurer, AXA, CNP Assurance and KATZA, the Israeli pipeline company. Ram specialises in delivering technical solutions which enable business growth in line with company objectives to deliver increased shareholder value.  His experience includes work as Solution Consultant with Rosgosstrakh, involving the successful roll-out of ALIS in the Russian market, Delivery Manager in the UK for the development of a package based software solution for the insurance industry, as Solution Consultant at CNP Assurance, working on the development of a taxation model in CNP as part of the localisation of ALIS to the French market.

Sarah Hill

Sarah has over 20 years’ experience in IT, data information and knowledge consulting working for a diverse range of organisations in both the public and private sectors, including Anglian Water Group, Citibank, Network Rail, British Energy, Thames Water and HM Revenue and Customs.  Her work has encompassed all aspects of IS strategy, systems and data architecture, application design, business process modelling and business optimisation.  She has led major integration and change projects in the fields of FX, Treasury and Money Markets, Telecoms and Distrbution.  Her experience includes delivery of HMCE accounts receivable programme; Programme Manager Anglian Water process change; Programme Manager (IS) Network Rail acquisition of Railtrack; Programme Manager British Energy risk management and capital expenditure programme and delivery of Citibank fx trading platform.  

Tony Robinson

Tony has 20 years’ experience in senior management positions across a variety of industrial sectors for companies as diverse as HSBC, MBNA, Royal Bank of Scotland, IBM, London Electricity, Tesco, Boots and Allied Domecq. He focuses on managing all aspects of the test stages of major IT projects and delivering strategic objectives to scope and quality, on time and on budget, for local, national and international projects.  In particular, he specialises in turning around testing programmes and projects which have run behind schedule or are significantly off-track.  His experience includes Testing Manager the SAP implementation at Thames Water; Testing manager for the business transformation and re-branding programme at Co-operative Financial Services; Testing Manager for the implementation of a new foreign exchange trading system at HSBC and the migration of MBNA Europe’s 10 million strong customer base onto the company’s US system, as a prelude to the acquisition of MBNA by Bank of America and Testing Manager for the Littlewoods Direct transformation programme.

Paul Evans

Paul has more than ten years’ experience in business transformation programmes with a variety of companies including Standard Chartered Bank, UNUM, Scottish Widows, AXA, T-Mobile, Thames Water and Legal & General.

He specialises in delivering Business and IT change at both strategic and operational levels in roles as diverse as programme management, project management and business consultant.  He has built a track record of delivery record across the financial services, telecommunications and utilities industries.

His most recent project was for Thames Water on a SAP implementation project to providing an independent assurance service to the Steering Committee and Sponsors for the Back Office Work Stream.

Ricky Reeves

Ricky has over 20 years’ experience delivering complex and innovative business transformation programmes for a wide range of companies including Thames Water, Vodafone, Orange, Matalan, G3-Vision and Littlewoods Shop Direct Group. Ricky’s expertise lies in integrating the People, Process, Information and Technology elements to ensure sustainable business improvement. 
His experience includes Programme Director Littlewoods direct transformation programme, Programme director Vodafone / Orange Shared Ran JV; Programme Director Thames water SAP programme, Programme Director for programmes at AXA, UNUM, Scottish Widows.

Sean Gully

With over 20 years of management experience Sean has developed strong business awareness with excellent problem solving skills and proven planning, management and communication capability. Sean specialises in all aspects of Digitisation and has successfully performed a variety of roles within the Private and Public sectors defining strategies and delivering challenging document management solutions. His experience includes Bureau Manager, Project Management and Delivery Management.

In addition to the outlined information above, Sean has performed key roles within a number of complex and diverse projects for both Government and Blue Chip organisations, which due to their sensitive nature and confidentiality conditions we cannot outline individually.

Atul Choudrie

With over 10 years commercial experience working alongside the Big 4 consulting firms, Atul has extensive project management, strategy and consulting skills that have been applied across several industries and markets. Specialising in all aspects of change management, process improvement, technology, and business strategy to create value added solutions Atul has broad experience in Australia, UK and New Zealand.
 
Having held senior project, programme office and change management roles on large, complex assignments within the financial services, transportation and government sectors. Atul has experience in full life-cycle solution development and delivery and has led projects covering strategy, process design, custom development, package implementation, change implementation, training and human resource development.

Cindy Truyens

With over 20 years of management experience, Cindy is a senior Operations and IT manager with a strong reputation for delivery. Specialising in large scale change management she has shaped and led initiatives resulting from programme recovery, mergers, acquisitions, restructuring and outsourcing.

With an in-depth knowledge of the financial sector (Insurance and Banking) as well as extensive experience of database marketing activities across the retail, FMCG, telecoms and technology sectors, Cindy is highly focused on achieving business objectives and delivering measurable benefit through the adoption of industry best practice, project and change management methodologies.

Her excellent networking, team building and motivational skills have been key to successful delivery and she is comfortable engaging at all levels in an organisation. Familiar with balancing executive level cross-functional requirements to ensure successful, fit for purpose implementations that align with the business strategy and objectives, Cindy is able to provide consultancy, support and direction to both the business and IT communities – taking responsibility for and co-ordinating all aspects of change delivery and the complete project lifecycle.

Cindy has delivered multi-million Pound global programmes and is adept at managing teams across multiple time zones.  Her recent assignments have included programme recovery, transformation programme mobilisation, IT strategy, solution architecture, system migration, data warehousing, outsourcing (ITO & BPO) and supplier management.

Ray Applegate

Ray is an experienced Business and IT Programme / Senior Project and Change Manager: founded on a successful 22 years career in IBM and 15 years on various assignments in a number of corporate organisations across a number of market sectors.

Ray is delivery focussed and is skilled in engaging all levels of an organisation from Board Executives to delivery team members to support success and achieve desired goals. Having held management roles in industry sectors such as Telecoms, Utilities, Transport, Insurance and the Public Sector provides Ray a backdrop of achievement that gives him the breadth of professional experience that can be applied to the assignment in hand. 

Rick Walton

Rick is a qualified planning professional with over 20 years’ related experience and extensive expertise gained within varying environments, sectors and companies including Magnox South, Thames Water and Alfred McAlpine.

He is a highly experienced and versatile professional in programme recovery and delivery in line with the clients’ objectives. Rick’s work includes the planning lead in complex programmes providing assurance support and governance through the production and maintenance of best practice planning, monitoring and reporting throughout the programme delivery process on several programmes with values in excess of £40 million.

Rick also has a comprehensive insight into, and an understanding of, engineering and construction processes and procedures, where he is commercially aware, a team leader and motivator and appreciates the importance of allocating resources effectively to meet time and cost constraints.