OCS CONSULTING - Key Persons


Brick Du Bourg

Job Titles:
  • Services Director
Joining OCS as a database analyst over 25 years ago, Brick's first assignment was implementing electronic messaging, which at that time was a complex task. His knowledge of software engineering methodology and his ever-expanding technical skills have allowed Brick to lead OCS' delivery teams both as Project Manager (Atern and PRINCE2 qualified) and Programme Director. He has also served as an interim IT Director and as a Development Director for OCS' clients. His structured, reasoned, empathetic and pragmatic approach ideally places him to oversee IT service delivery.

Garry Harpham

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager
  • Senior Consultant
Working for OCS during the late 1990s and re-joining us late last year, Garry's background includes Entertainment, Advertising & Marketing, Retail and F&B, as well as in-depth automotive experience with Nissan, Honda, Mercedes-Benz, VW, Opel-Vauxhall & McLaren. He has extensive and varied IT experience of Programme, Project & Transition Service Management, Business Analysis and Process Change, and software development and Infrastructure implementations, and his international experience encompasses liaison with remote developers, suppliers and contractors in regions as diverse as China, Japan, India, Europe, USA and Australasia.

James Widdowson

Job Titles:
  • Business Development Manager
James joined OCS Consulting plc over 3 years ago and since joining has developed strong relationships with new and existing Clients. James is extremely knowledgeable regarding OCS' services and how these services and engagement models can be adapted and tailored to the needs of our Clients.

Maurice Aroesti - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Group Chief Executive
Maurice joined us as a Project Manager on an insurance assignment; nearly 29 years on he leads OCS both in the UK and Europe. He has retained a strong interest in the insurance domain and oversees OCS' joint business service venture for the commercial insurance market. Maurice also introduced Net Promoter Score to OCS in 2007 as part of the client-centric strategy. And he still does some high level consultancy - so he knows precisely what it is to be a working consultant.

Patricia Kozilek

Job Titles:
  • Project & Service Liaison
Having worked on some of the largest telecoms projects in Brazil, Patricia came to Europe to seek new challenges. She joined OCS over 10 years ago as part of its business analyst team. Since that time, she has increasingly found herself using her technical and business-based communication skills to facilitate programme management. Patricia now provides liaison services to a number of OCS clients as well as overseeing the communication touchpoints for our Cash Management services

Richard Williams

Job Titles:
  • Operations Manager
  • Project Manager
After enjoying the challenges of working for a global energy company, Richard decided to seek out a place where he could involve himself more closely in operations. Taking over OCS' infrastructure 25 years ago, he transformed the service model to cope much more effectively with a broad spectrum of client infrastructure requirements. Today, he has a combined role of Project Manager and Operations Manager, looking after a number of our well established clients.

Yves Poriau

Job Titles:
  • General Manager
Yves originally worked at OCS Consulting plc during the late 1980s / early 1990s. Yves re-joined OCS Consulting in 1998 to set up OCS Consulting BV in the Netherlands specialising in the use of SAS Software within the Pharmaceutical sector. Over 20 years later, with a SAS team of nearly 60 consultants OCS Consulting BV are very much the leading SAS Consultancy in the Netherlands. Our Dutch office specialties include; SAS Consultancy, Resourcing, SAS Managed Services, Biometric Support, Data Analytics, Statistical Analysis, Clinical Trial Management, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, within the Pharma & Life Science, Insurance and Financial domains.