Alan Fowler

Over a long career Alan has worked in 4 different departments of central government and over 50 private sector organisations, ranging from major corporates to owner-managed businesses. He has worked primarily in the finance, utility and automotive sectors, and latterly worked for 10 years in Ernst & Young's Management Consultancy. Alan has recently set up Isochron in response to new needs of the market for business-focused practical understanding and techniques and lower overhead costs.

Nigel Albon

Nigel has led and managed consulting teams in the Public Sectors including the Department of Health and in Local Government. As well as his early experience in the Private Sector he has also led consulting in large insurance companies. Nigel is a hands-on delivery-focused consultant with a practical experience in delivering the Isochron approach in difficult environments. He motivates high performance senior teams that consistently translate abstract concepts into successful solutions. He is particularly skilled at making delivery happen, successfully dealing with difficult challenges that can put business goals at risk.

Richard Scott

Much of Richard's experience has been gained on international assignments and he has operated at the most senior levels of global organisations. He is as comfortable debating project issues in the boardroom as he is grappling with intractable technical issues. Richard specialises in identifying real commercial benefits to be derived from projects and ensuring that they are maximised and delivered.

Richard has over twenty years experience in management and computer services. His experience is extensive, covering all scales of project in sectors including professional services, government services, education, manufacturing, financial services and retailing.

Andrew Holmes

Andrew's experience has been built up in the MOD, part of GEC, the Ordnance Survey, CITI, SEMA and Ernst & Young. During his appointments in SEMA, Ernst & Young and PwC he has worked in clients across many sectors: National Express, Unilever, Kenana Sugar Company, the Inland Revenue, Warburgs, Transco, Royal and Sun Alliance, Argos, London Electricity and Dresdner Klienwort Benson. Yet in each of these his energy and ability have taken him into depth in key roles.

Greg Hawes

Greg helps government secure the outcomes it promises its stakeholders, delivering public service targets through integrated portfolio, programme and project delivery management. He is particularly experienced in leading programmes with complex stakeholder communication requirements, including large global teams.

Greg's public sector experience includes working in the Cabinet Office, Inland Revenue, Home Office, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Lord Chancellor's Department, the BBC, DTI, MOD, local government, the regulatory sector and education. He has worked at all levels with many leading UK and European blue chip and global companies, including Legal & General, Jupiter, Barclaycard, Invensys, Avon Cosmetics, Allied Irish Bank, Storebrand Insurance, ESB (Ireland), Railtrack and Whitbread.

He has spoken to audiences including the Deloitte & Touche Euro 2000 conference, the Institute of Grocery Distribution, utilities industry working groups and the Information Systems in Government conference.

Peter Wooster

Peter believes that “the essence of project management is managing complexity with common sense”. Peter's perception and practicality combined with his knowledge of accounting and software development allows him to have the essential feel for both the hard qualitative metrics of project management and the soft issues of project governance that determine the efficiency and even the success of project work.

Tony Carter

Tony has worked extensively in Europe, USA, Canada, Russia and Asia, in both private and public sectors. Specialisms includes rapid package selection, CRM & supply chain, programme mobilisation and planning, programme healthchecks, and use of programme / project management tools. Industries include financial services, investment banking, FMCG, leisure, healthcare, local & central government, even including a stint for the Russian Government.

Recently he was responsible for the launch of Blueyonder for Telewest, the UK's first residential broadband internet service. Systems integration work was accompanied by extensive efforts to transform the business from a telco to an internet services provider, redesigning business processes and ensuring business readiness for launch.

Simon Harris

Simon has established / run several programme offices for change initiatives with budgets of #25m p.a / #100m total spend and is the author of professional level training in project management, programme management and related disciplines such as quality and risk, software configuration management and business-focussed IT disaster recovery. He focuses on understanding good practice and how to apply it in an imperfect world in order to achieve balance between value and rigor. Simon is currently assisting the PMI in its own programme of PMP exam preparation materials.

Bernie Hopkins

In addition to more than 26 years experience in management and IT, Bernie's specialisms are application re-engineering and integration. He has written and presented papers on software re-engineering and was recently published in Conspectus with an article on Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). He has worked widely in Financial Services and Local Government sectors. Recent projects include a Euro programme review for a major retail bank and eGovernment strategy development for a number of local authorities.

A thoughtful and shrewd manager and practical consultant, Bernie adds strength and depth to the management and their programme and project teams with whom he works.

Robert Buttrick

Before this, Robert was with PA Consulting Group, a management and technology consultancy. He specialised in business-led project management, advising clients such as TSB Bank, National Rivers Authority, Property Services Agency, Avon Industrial Polymers, National Westminster Bank and RHM.

Robert has provided consulting, design and management services for infrastructure projects world wide. He has lived and worked in countries as diverse as Kenya, Mauritius, Yemen, Senegal and Sudan on the evaluation, design and supervision of a number of marine and water resource projects. He has also worked with the World Bank, in Washington DC on investment appraisals for major development projects.

Michael Griggs

He has broad business sector exposure notably in Financial Services, Utilities, Retail, Government and Telcos and has extensive programme/project management experience, including large-scale initiatives involving multi-functional teams of up to 100+ personnel. International assignments have been performed in Europe and America.

In 2003, Michael completed a decade in I.T Services with an international group, contributing profitably to company results and reputation, working with clients ranging from SME to Global.

Michael is an avowed champion of Business value driven I.T. investment, enjoying a reputation for pragmatism and a 'can-do' attitude. He has published a number of industry papers, most recently, on the subject of Minimum Necessary Change. He is a founding principal of a specialist data consultancy.

Richard Allman

Much of Richard's experience has been gained working for a FTSE top 30 company in senior management and executive roles both in the UK and Europe. He has managed and delivered large strategic portfolio and specialist programmes including CRM systems implementation, network and customer segmentation and cost reduction.

During his extensive and varied career Richard has constantly been able to find pragmatic solutions to complex and cross-functional problems by approaching issues in a customer-focused, structured and logical manner. He brings clarity and planning capability to the most uncertain situations.

Anne Perret

Anne is a qualified practitioner of NLP. Her passion is in creating effective communications between individuals, teams and work groups through the common-sense application of psychological techniques. She believes that teams can only work well together when members communicate clearly and effectively with each other and with their clients.

David Peffer

Latterly the Group IT Director for an international insurer, David has been responsible for IT strategy and IT governance and involved in many business and IT projects and programmes including outsourcing, offshoring, merger and integration. In the 1980s and 90s he was a consultant and manager with Ernst and Young, managing many consultancy engagements in a variety of organisations and industries both in the public and private sectors.

Prior to working in Ernst and Young David had ten years experience in systems development, project and IT management in manufacturing and oil industries.

Jim Byers

This experience has been gained in a wide variety of industry sectors including aerospace, civil and military, automotive, retail, telecoms and electronics, heavy engineering, utilities and Government sponsored programs. A Graduate in Industrial Management, a Member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, and Incorporated Engineer.

Before becoming a consultant his operations and business experience included a number of executive management positions with Caterpillar, a technology leader and the world's leading supplier of construction and mining equipment.

Kimball Bailey

As a consultant, Kimball works with clients to implement their strategies and to ensure that they realise benefit from their investment in IT and business change. He is an experienced consultancy director with a background in information technology, the management of change and operational business performance improvement across a range of sectors. He has wide experience of leading and working on international business change programmes and an effective track record in facilitating, developing and training internal and client teams.

Kimball holds an MA in law from Cambridge University (Magdalene College). He is a regular conference speaker and also speaks reasonable, though now a little rusty, French.

Iebe Ypma

Iebe works with clients to ensure that business change and process innovation delivers business benefits. His contribution spans a range of roles, from executive responsibility as the global project director, to mentoring board members as an external adviser. His work on these projects is supported by strong skill sets in process mapping and process innovation, IT strategy and IT procurement, logistics and project management.

Iebe holds an MBA from Cranfield, a Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance and is a trained trainer and facilitator. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts Manufactures & Commerce and is Chairman of the International Accreditation Advisory Board for the Association of MBAs. A Dutch national, he speaks Dutch, German and Afrikaans as well as English.

Clare Birks

Clare specialises in leading complex change that spans new products, processes, IT, skills, resources and organisation. Her latest clients include the Department for Constitutional Affairs, Euronext, the FSA and the Department for Work and Pensions.

She is familiar with the challenges of both line management and programme management. As a line manager she is unusually results-focused. As a programme manager she is unusually people-focused. She is at her best, pulling together multidisciplinary teams to interpret strategic vision into working level initiatives which she can motivate her teams to deliver. Her energy, laughter, insight, focus and coaching can revitalise the most troubled of change initiatives

Alan Blakeley

In a long career he has managed many large projects, amongst them the technology support of joint venture relationships between Life, Bank and Retail finance companies. Alan managed the technology and company integration and business and technology migration following merger of Lloyds TSB and Scottish Widows.

He has managed the delivery of outsourced services of both business and IT, offshore and onshore. Of late Alan has established and developed a new offshore services company in the insurance sector with worldwide development centres. He provides consultancy services covering IT strategy and offshore services to several life and pensions companies.

Joe Davis

Joe has predominantly worked in the financial, retail, utility and telecoms market sectors, successfully migrating between them, and includes HSBC, First Direct, Lloyds TSB, GUS, Tesco, BT, United Utilities and BA in his client list.

Joe has highly-developed communication and engagement skills, gained through many years of executive level relationships and an ability to adapt to different cultural environments. He is highly regarded and respected as a natural leader of large teams and enjoys mentoring colleagues.

Rob Wherrett

Before working in a project environment his background was principally in Marketing and Strategy. As a Certified Management Consultant he has since led programmes in Retail, Leisure, Financial Services and the Public Sector. Rob is renowned for his skills in developing managers and executives to cope with the complexities of organisational change. In addition he is also a visiting lecturer to a number of Business Schools where he teaches Innovation and Change.

Michael Roe

Michael specialises in best practice IT Governance and in relevant standards including CobiT, ITIL / ISO 2000 and ISO27001 and the use of IT Balanced Scorecards. He was worked extensively with IT Strategy and Architecture, systems selection and implementation. He has a broad-based knowledge of the main vendor strategies and key technology areas such as application development and integration technologies, business intelligence, Enterprise Content Management (ECM), information security and IT infrastructure.

Michael started in the industry as a graduate with ICL and spent significant periods with James Martin Associates, Impact Plus (an independent management consultancy) and as the IT Director at Bright Grey.

Dan Crisp

Dan is currently the Chief Operations Officer for Information Security at a major Global Financial Services Company.

He is an experienced consultant with more than 20 years in Operational Risk Management and Strategic Programme Delivery throughout North America and Europe.  Dan has built his reputation for delivery through converting strategy into action. 

Dan has led large teams in the regulatory, product innovation, and enterprise process improvement programmes at companies including:  Citigroup, Providian, National City, Barclays, HSBC, Washington Mutual, and Ford.  He has broad experience in operations improvement and has led multiple successful deployments of enterprise programme management and portfolio management systems.  Although he is very hands-on and delivery focused, Dan is equally comfortable with senior executives and board member communications. 

He was recently recognised by Project Manager Today magazine for innovation in the portfolio management space at Barclays PLC.  Dan is a certified PMP through the Project Management Institute, a Six Sigma Black Belt, and has completed the Stanford University Advanced Programme Management  Certification Programme. Dan has a reputation for pragmatic delivery and creating high performing teams.    

Gerry Wood

Gerry is an experienced programme and project manager with over 25 years experience of managing the implementation of major change programmes. 

After 12 years in systems development and systems management he joined the insurance group at Ernst & Young where he became an executive consultant.  In 1998, after 9 years at E&Y, he became an independent consultant and has since undertaken business transformation, process reengineering and change management assignments at major insurance companies (Prudential, Swiss Re, Norwich Union, Sun Life Financial of Canada) and banks (RBS, The Woolwich, National Australia).

He has extensive experience of technology-driven change management and process reengineering involving acquisitions, new products, joint ventures, outsourcing, supplier management, package selection and implementation. 

He takes a pragmatic approach and achieves results by focusing on the teamwork, stakeholder management and communication required to reach the project goal and realise the benefits.

Bob Briggs

Bob Briggs is a qualified project manager and systems engineer with over 30 years experience in large scale system development including flight simulators, radar, command and control, air traffic control, road traffic management and logistics.

He has worked for some of the UKs largest companies in the Defence, Aerospace and Transportation sectors in the UK, including Marconi, Philips and BAeSEMA, where he has held progressively more senior management roles at team, project and divisional levels. Bob has acquired a reputation for process innovation and has a keen interest in how best to deliver information system programmes for maximum business and stakeholder benefit.

Bob started his own consultancy practice in 2000 and has carried out a number of assignments in the transportation systems sector, including acting as an expert witness on two multi-million pound lawsuits.

Bob is a Chartered IT Professional, holding a degree in electronics, a management diploma, and the ISEB Certificate in Information Systems Project Management.