Seasoned. Battle-hardened. Not a euphemism.
Every engagement is led by someone who has actually done the job before, not advised on it from the outside. The names on this page are real and checkable.
Why there are only real names here
It would be easy to fill this page with impressive-sounding fictional bios: twenty years here, a household-name client there. We're not going to do that. Everyone below is real, named and checkable, and nobody appears until they have agreed to be published. Putting invented credentials in front of a prospective client is a trust problem waiting to happen, not a placeholder. What follows is the actual bar each person clears.
What "battle-hardened" actually means here
Has done the job before
Every fractional leader has held the equivalent full-time role at a comparable business, not consulted around its edges. Judgement calibrated by consequence, not just by exposure.
Has made the calls that didn't work
We look for people who can talk plainly about a decision that went wrong and what they learned from it, not just a highlight reel of what went right.
Fits the scale-up to mid-cap reality
Enterprise-scale experience doesn't automatically transfer. We look for people who've operated at a size and pace close to where our clients actually are.
Named before engagement, not after
You meet the actual person who'll be leading the work before anything is signed, never a placeholder profile that gets swapped for someone else once the contract lands.
The people who lead the work.
Every person below is named, has agreed to be published, and has held the equivalent job before, not advised on it from the outside.
Steve has held exec roles from CTO to interim VP of Technology and Transformation, at SQA Consulting, DOCOMO Digital and Mercury Processing, with earlier client work for Lloyds, Mozilla, Vodafone and NatWest. He leads business, technology, digital and AI transformation.
Iain has held CTO, programme director and deputy CIO roles at Planet, VocaLink (now part of Mastercard) and Mercury Processing. He leads payments modernisation and platform delivery, and builds software delivery organisations from scratch.
Jo has held group and director-level marketing roles at Trafalgar Entertainment, Stagecoach Performing Arts and Drama Kids, with earlier work at blinkbox, EA and Nike. She leads brand, performance marketing and go-to-market across a 30-market franchise network.
Gary has sat across multiple roles at C-suite including Chief Product & Marketing Officer, Head of Investor Relations and Head of Delivery. He has a deep history in product strategy, go-to-market and investor relations, across brands including 118 118, Autotrader, Orange, Narwhal Labs and BOXARR.
Tom has held commercial and category leadership roles at ITAA, Mitie, RWE and Honda, owning third-party IT spend and a €77m European labour category. He leads sourcing strategy, supplier consolidation and procurement transformation.
Lee has held sourcing and category leadership roles at Just Eat Takeaway.com, Mitie, Lloyds Banking Group and LV=, across technology, software and services spend. He leads SaaS and technology sourcing, category strategy and supplier negotiation.
Daniel has held security leadership roles at Fireduck, Punk Security, SQA Consulting, Barclays Investment Bank and Deutsche Bank, including security assurance for the DWP. He leads DevSecOps, threat modelling and security architecture.
Angus has held transformation leadership roles at Unilever, Virgin Media O2, Micro Focus and HSBC, leading teams of up to 1,000 people and portfolios up to £100m. A former British Army intelligence officer, he leads operating model design, transformation and governance.
Kevin has held change, transformation and programme delivery roles at British Airways, Shell, GSK, BNP Paribas and SABMiller. A CISA since 2010, he leads programme mobilisation, delivery governance and change management.
Paul has held delivery, programme and operations director roles at Deloitte, Omnio, Aion Digital and Lyca Money, where the chair brought him in to relaunch their fintech proposition. He leads payments, fintech delivery and operational turnaround.
Sukvinder has held delivery and transformation director roles at Lloyds Banking Group, Temenos and IBM, on platforms serving 18 million customers and programmes above £100m. He leads large-scale delivery, scaled-agile transformation and the recovery of programmes already running red.
Jim has held studio, production and executive roles across 37 years in the video games and tech industry: nearly a decade at Sumo Digital, latterly as VP studios, director roles at SEGA and executive producer at Codemasters and Supermassive Games. He leads our Non-Executive Director services.
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UK leadership, European delivery
UK-based leadership runs every client relationship and boardroom conversation. No engagement is led from offshore. The engineering, data and category-management work is built by our European sister company, in the same time zone and to the same standard.
Leadership and delivery are quoted separately, as they are on every engagement. What the arrangement buys you is delivery capacity that already exists and already works to our standards, with one point of accountability in the UK, not a second supplier to find, brief and govern yourself.
Want to know exactly who would be leading it?
Ask us directly. You'll meet the actual person before anything is signed.