Meet our team

Tim is a senior business leader and consultant with over 25 years’ experience crafting and delivering major strategic programmes across many large UK and global businesses. His focus and passion are to enable organisations to make better decisions. As the digital and physical worlds blur, now is a particularly exciting time to be helping ambitious businesses shape their actions for the future.

Tim gets great satisfaction from the singular moment when plans turn into irreversible action, and believes it all ultimately comes down to people. He is no stranger to this having survived the BBC reality TV show ‘SAS: Are you tough enough’!

Lucy has over four years’ consulting experience, including in IT and healthcare settings. She has worked with senior stakeholders in public, private and third sector organisations on complex global programmes, developing effective people skills whilst producing high-quality deliverables. At Gate One, Lucy works mainly in the health sector to improve the quality of the UK’s healthcare providers, regulators and commissioners, and is part of the change management team.

When she is not working, Lucy has numerous hobbies: travelling, theatre, running…but her passion is dance, which she still makes time for regularly.

Born and raised in sunny South Africa, Kirsty came to London over a decade ago, gaining experience across different financial functions since then. Kirsty spent six years in an operations and finance role in a management consultancy before being lured by the English Rugby Football Union (RFU) as a financial accountant. With rugby out of her system (and 2015 World Cup tickets secured), Kirsty is now kept on her toes by the consulting team at Gate One, where each day is a different but pleasurable challenge.

Kirsty is also a qualified cosmetologist, natural and holistic therapist and Swarovski Crystal jewellery maker.

A founding partner of Gate One, Alex is proud of our pioneering spirit and strong camaraderie. He enjoys developing innovative solutions for transformation challenges and likes nothing more than toasting the shared hard yards of a job well done.

Working principally in the financial services and public sectors, he has extensive experience of hands-on delivery of high profile, complex global transformation programmes, governance of £multi-billion change portfolios and building organisations’ capability to deliver change themselves.

Now with a young family, Alex does what he can to indulge his passions for travel and sport. He looks forward to returning to previous exploits such as a self-guided 4×4 safari through Botswana.

Organisations are facing unprecedented levels of change and digital disruption. As a founding partner of Gate One, David is excited about the endless opportunities that this provides and is inspired by the incredibly talented team around him who are helping our clients to meet their transformation needs head on.

Having worked across a broad range of FTSE100 organisations for 20 years, David specialises in complex digital, portfolio and enterprise-wide target op model transformations. He regularly coaches and challenges board level teams to lead effective change.

David is also an active investor and a board member of several start-ups. He is fascinated by the innovation process and how to infuse the entrepreneurial mindset into larger organisations.

Kirsten has over four years’ marketing experience after graduating from her degree in marketing and international business in 2014. She began her career in New Zealand promoting pushchairs, after which she moved into the public sector to sell the Kiwi dream as a marketing advisor for the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. Kirsten is a passionate digital marketer who loves to get stuck in and learn new things. Having been in the UK for only two weeks before joining Gate One, she spends her spare time exploring the great sites of London.

A childhood spent climbing the Lake District fells and a consulting career forged in complex business transformation have firmly convinced Simon that the more painful the ascent, the better the views.

Simon has spent over 15 years leading and delivering change programmes in multiple sectors, with a focus on healthcare and life sciences. He specialises in helping leadership teams to achieve large scale change execution and culture shift.

A founding partner and director of talent at Gate One, Simon passionately believes that building a growth mindset culture of coaching and continuous improvement creates profound development opportunities for our consultants and lasting change for our clients.

Caro has over 14 years’ experience within consulting and financial services, having worked for a major bank and big four firm in both Australia and the UK. As Gate One’s change lead, her professional focus is supporting organisations to design, activate and embed strategic transformation programmes, whilst applying creative approaches to facilitate and accelerate behaviour change. Caro is passionate about coaching, and supporting client teams to develop their skills leading and embedding change.

As an Australian, Caro enjoys exploring London’s restaurants, theatres and historical sites, travelling as much as possible, and getting outside to celebrate any (comparatively rare) day with blue sky.

Liane has over eight years’ experience setting up, operating and transforming businesses. She started at a big four firm and then fed her entrepreneurial appetite by leading operations at a progressive start-up that is now a successful online luxury retailer. At Gate One, Liane specialises in heading up programme management offices for complex transformation programmes. Her experience spans the travel, education, finance, hospitality, energy, media, communications and retail industries. Liane is heavily involved in Gate One’s incubator programme.

Outside of Gate One Liane fuses her art and consulting skills, providing start-up advice to people with creative and alternative business ideas.

Prior to joining Gate One, Alex’s career involved working on business change projects in an international consulting firm and delivering digital transformation programmes in a London-based management consultancy. He also has experience as a brand specialist, with responsibility for developing online product exposure.

Now at Gate One, Alex is supporting a major European packaging firm with a customer segmentation project. He is also involved in supporting the growth of our digital proposition and capabilities in the travel and transport sector while supporting an incubator business concept.

Away from work, Alex is training for his next triathlon and enjoys throwing various cooking ingredients around the kitchen.

Alex is a highly accomplished digital transformation programme manager and IT integration specialist, with over ten years’ experience supporting businesses with complex, high profile change programmes. Previously with one of the big four firms, he has great breadth of experience having worked with clients in sectors including life sciences, travel and financial services.

At Gate One, Alex’s work has included the implementation of a global CRM platform at a major travel operator and a leadership role in the transition service agreement team of an international pharmaceutical company.

Outside of work, Alex has completed several marathons and is currently training for a Tough Mudder challenge.

Helen is an experienced HR Professional with nearly eight years’ experience in both the public and private sectors. She has held a series of diverse HR-related roles in professional services firms over the last few years, notably at two leading international law firms in the UK and in the Middle East. She is passionate about creating a business culture and environment where people can push boundaries, achieve their full potential and enjoy their work.

Outside of work you can usually find Helen making the most of London’s culinary delights or planning her next travel adventure.

Mark’s approach goes back to watching his father design the world’s most innovative vessels: world class is perfectly possible and starts with great design and pragmatic creativity. Mark was previously Head of Performance at Crossrail where he supported organisations to develop strategy, deliver projects and communicate results. He has deep expertise in portfolio management, reporting and performance data analysis and visualisation. As a finance director, he has enjoyed responsibility for all aspects of finance, strategy, pricing, IT and operational delivery.

When not working, Mark is often found, camera in hand, seeking to get the elusive perfect landscape shot.

Grace has a strong track record of strategic design and programme delivery with over six years’ experience delivering in complex operational and asset intensive environments. She has worked on large complex programmes with senior leaders in organisations in both the public and private sector, and has been involved in all stages of a programme lifecycle, from development of the business case to the deployment or commissioning phase.

Grace is a keen traveller and has recently explored southern Africa where she tested the boundaries of her comfort zone through sky-diving and quad biking over some of the world’s biggest sand dunes. She enjoys dancing and trying out unusual gym classes.

Selina is an experienced management consultant with expertise in process improvement and change management. She started her career at a big four firm, working with FTSE 100 clients on large transformation programmes, progressing on to an in-house consulting role at a major retailer. Here she led many change programmes to improve operational efficiency in several business areas.

Throughout her career Selina has played an active role in partnerships with charities, something she continues to do as Gate One’s CSR lead. Outside of work Selina enjoys reading her trusted Lonely Planet guide – deciding on the next adventure, spending time with her family or baking up some delights in the kitchen.

Ben leads our retail, consumer business and manufacturing sectors. He specialises in scaling innovation into transformation and has led both lean, agile innovation teams and large-scale programmes. He particularly focuses on the people and cultural change required to create long lasting value. He has over 20 years consulting experience.

Ben has a great track record in growing consulting businesses. He has held partner and VP roles responsible for creating new services and building teams at well-known consulting and technology firms in the UK.

As a keen record collector and guitarist, when he’s not creating dishes in the kitchen Ben enjoys listening to and playing music.

Having qualified as an accountant in a big four firm, Ali spent three years in forensic accountancy investigating fraud and quantifying corporate disputes. Her passion for finding more creative ways to engage the market out-shone her interest in any creative accounting techniques she uncovered, so she became a chartered marketer, first within accountancy and then in construction consultancy. Ali was a freelance marketer in the professional services sector for four years before joining Gate One.

Ali is very protective of our brand and likes nothing more than starting conversations that have Gate One clients at their heart…well, that and having a laugh with her children.

Raised in New Zealand, Sarah completed her BA in Criminology and Psychology at Victoria University before seeking a new adventure across the other side of the world. London called, and during her time here she has used her statistical analysis skills to become an experienced data analyst working in the financial services industry, joining Gate One to expand these skills in the management consultancy industry.

Sarah is a typical kiwi and will literally jump at the chance to do anything outdoor adventure or adrenalin packed, getting her bungy jump fix before she left.

James accumulated over a decade of Big Four consulting experience in the UK and Australia prior to joining Gate One. He has driven transformative change in a range of public and private sector multinationals and now leads Gate One’s Travel & Transport sector.

A proven problem solver, James specialises in operating model design, portfolio management, customer strategy and experience, and performance improvement. James relishes building high performing teams to work side by side with clients on their most complex and high profile programmes.

James is a seasoned explorer with his countries visited tally at 40 and counting, including a 2017 visit to France where he fulfilled his lifelong dream of representing Great Britain in the (now IOC-recognised) sport of Ultimate Frisbee.

Gemma started her consulting career at a Big Four firm delivering complex business change programmes. She has ten years’ experience focused on the pharmaceuticals, consumer business and retail sectors, working in areas such as complex programme and change management, supply chain operations and post merger integration. Gemma believes the best way to ensure excellent project delivery is to work collaboratively with clients to build results that stick.

Gemma enjoys exploring the world on two wheels, two skis or a surfboard, and will try to cram in a European mini-break at any given opportunity.

In 2014 James decided the best way to combine his fascination with business and the people skills he honed as a teacher was to become a consultant. He joined a big four firm and spent over three years working on major public sector digital and commercial transformation programmes, developing his skills in project and programme management, business case development and operating model design.

At Gate One, James has supported one of the UK’s largest retailers in the redesign of its operating model. He is helping to build Gate One’s digital capabilities and is undertaking a Digital Strategy course with Google.

Outside work, James loves endurance sports and travel.

James leads our Government and Public Services sector. He joined Gate One in 2015 after having worked across policy-making and big four consulting for the previous 12 years. Specialising in large scale strategy development and delivery, he has worked across central and local government, third sector organisations and those businesses that provide public services. Most recently he has been supporting clients across the NHS and local government in achieving their ability to deliver high quality services more effectively.

James leads Gate One’s Health and Wellbeing offer, and is passionate about supporting teams to maximise their impacts in and out of work. Outside of work he enjoys getting away from it all in the fells, alongside travelling the world with his family.

Jen joined Gate One in January 2018 having previously worked as a consultant for over four years in a big four firm. Specialising in large scale change and programme management, Jen has delivered complex transformation programmes primarily across the financial services sector. Most recently, she has worked with clients to support their Brexit programmes as well as helped firms to re-design their governance frameworks.

Away from work Jennifer enjoys travelling and socialising at one of London’s many brunch spots. She is also a frequent runner, currently training for the London marathon.

Mark is Head of Business Development at Gate One. His focus is on helping Gate One and prospective clients find each other through the myriad of client requirements and fog of consultancy companies. Having started his career as a consultant within strategy and marketing, Mark has helped build successful brands and drive revenue for small start-ups and Global 50 companies alike.

Outside of work, Mark is a keen property developer, with a number of successful projects behind him.