TESSIANT - Key Persons
Alan was Chief Procurement Officer at Carphone Warehouse and then Vice President for Procurement at Walgreens Boots Alliance. At Carphone Warehouse, Alan led the Indirect Procurement Transformation programme creating a European wide Carphone Warehouse Procurement Team and significantly enhancing the Procurement and Supplier Management capability across people, processes and systems. Whilst at Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), Alan led the Indirect Procurement synergy programme for the merger between these two iconic retail brands while also building an international Procurement team across the Alliance Healthcare Wholesale Division and the Boots International Retail Portfolio, ensuring Procurement best practices were utilised across the portfolio.
Alan has worked across all indirect categories of spend throughout his career with his IT Procurement expertise being of particular note having dealt extensively on IT transformation activities developing relationships with organisations such as SAP, Oracle, Workday, Microsoft, IBM, PWC, Deloitte and Accenture to name a few.
Alex has enjoyed a 20-year management consultancy career, predominately within Retail, Financial Services and Public Sectors. Most recently a Director in Berkeley Partnership, he has also consulted through EY and PA consulting.
Throughout his successful career, the approach Alex has taken is to work closely with clients and their stakeholders to develop business and IT strategies. He then helps them follow through with supplier contracting, team mobilisation and delivery. Recent clients have included Primark, Sainsburys, Debenhams, Pensions Regulator and Royal Mail.
Job Titles:
- CEO, CMO, Commercial. Tesco, Asda, Morrisons
Alex spent over 20 years working for 3 of the UK's "Big 4" supermarkets. He held Senior Commercial and Marketing roles at Tesco, Asda and Morrison's with time spent both in the UK and internationally.
Throughout that time Alex built extensive experience in building and developing large commercial teams focused on customer proposition, pricing and promotions, efficient supply chains and world class sourcing. He led the team that acquired IPL (for Asda/Walmart) from Bakkavor, was part of the founding team of the Group food sourcing division at Tesco and transformed the way Morrison's managed end-to-end procurement across the business.
Alex now runs his own investment advisory business with a clear focus on the food and drink sector both in the UK and beyond.
Alex specialises in:
Providing clear and focused views on the commercial functions of businesses
Reviewing and supporting on both top-line and bottom-line growth delivery
Providing expert advice on supply chains and sourcing / procurement
Outside of work Alex spends most (if not all) of his free time with his 4 children and numerous pets.
Andy Adcock - Chief Commercial Officer
Job Titles:
- Commercial Director
- BCG As Senior Advisor
Andy brings almost 30 years of retail experience leading commercial operations and running large multi-discipline teams. He has a buying, private label and marketing background, having previously held senior positions at Sainsbury's, Asda and M&S.
With a focus on product, customer and team development, Andy has a proven track record of enhancing performance through operational practice and ways of working. He has typically operated within multi-channel operations, gaining broad experience in business transformation and agile working. Andy has led successful commercial turnarounds, strategic planning programmes, and cost management initiatives at both Asda and M&S.
Andy joined BCG as Senior Advisor in 2019 and has since been involved in variety of projects involving retail operations, supply chain, franchising and category resets all over Europe, the US and Australia. Alongside BCG, he runs his own advisory, coaching and expert witness business, supporting clients in the retail, manufacturing, supply chain and data analytics sectors.
Andy specialises in:
Sourcing, merchandising, supply chain and pricing
Private label and product development
Strategy and change management
Executive coaching and leadership development
Outside of work Andy is a keen sportsman, now mostly anchored to the touchline watching his 3 children. He enjoys cycling, walking and football.
Anna has been one of the UK's top CIO's and is a People and Transformation Leader, used to delivering large scale change across different industries. Most recently the CIO at Asda, Halfords & Morrison's, she significantly improves technology capabilities in organisations. A people-centred leader with core strengths in strategy, delivery creativity and customer focus, Anna has worked with a number of FTSE100, FTSE250 and regulatory organisations at a senior level.
She has led business transformation programmes involving major offshoring. A judge for ‘Everywoman In Technology', ‘Women In IT Awards, Anna was also a finalist for the European CIO of the year in 2015. She ranked number 1 in the CIO list in 2014 and winner of the ‘CIO of the year' 2014, at the Women in IT awards. Adding further still to her impressive list of credentials, Anna is an external advisor to Bain Consulting, was ranked in the top 15 Innovative Influencers in Retail in 2018 and has sat on Retail Week Live Advisory Board.
As a Founder and Managing Partner at Tessiant, Anna specialises in:
Helping embed technology, digital & data into organisations.
Defining the strategy and role of technology, digital and data.
Supporting leaders to build the right operating model, teams and capability.
Successfully delivering culture and transformative change.
Providing executive coaching to current CIO's and senior leaders.
Outside of work Anna has two wonderful children, a fiance and dogs. She enjoys sketching, walking, travelling and reading.
Charlotte has over 16 years of experience in consumer transformation within Consulting and Retail. She began her career at John Lewis leading projects in retail operations, supply chain and multi-channel systems. For the last 10 years, Charlotte has specialised in shaping, delivering and assuring complex programmes and portfolios at Deloitte. Charlotte has transformation experience across a range of industries, including Retail, Consumer Packaged Goods, Travel, Telecoms, Media and Technology.
Charlotte specialises in:
Job Titles:
- Partner - Senior Advisory
- Partner - SIA
Danielle has over ten years of executive search experience within the strategy and commercial space. She has placed global teams helping FTSE through to start-ups business growing their C Suite teams.
Danielle leads the Senior Industry Advisor team at Tessiant. The team brings together experienced executives who now hold portfolio roles. Typical assignments include:
Corporate organisations seeking high level strategic advice
Businesses looking for deep industry deal coaching experience
Private equity businesses seeking real world CDD guidance
Outside of work Danielle enjoys spending time with her husband and their young boy, attending music festivals, travelling and cooking - especially Indian and Italian cuisine.
Danny is a talented and hard-working individual, who is a self-employed contractor in the Transformational Change and Project Management Profession. He is proactive and passionate in helping solve businesses problems and challenges, with vast experience in delivering transformational change. Balancing the available time, cost and quality with ongoing customer services or operational requirements.
Previous roles include Project Manager at Fortnum & Mason. A contract role in collaboration with us here at Tessiant. Danny delivered a refurbishment project of the 3rd floor of the flagship Piccadilly store including a new bar, food and drink studio and hampers retail space. He worked across multiple departments and workstreams in order to manage a multi-million pound scope.
Prior to this he was the Retail Development Lead at John Lewis Partnership where he was responsible for leading a team of change professions to design and business case major change programmes across John Lewis and Waitrose. Responsibilities included managing multiple senior stakeholders, conflicting priorities and resources, designing and delivering complex change that delivers significant opportunities or risk mitigations for the John Lewis Partnership.
Before this role he also was Operations and Project Manager at John Lewis & Partners. Where he was responsible for developing the strategy for Stock Management Operations in John Lewis & Partners shops. leading a central team to monitor and support operational performance, seek continuous improvements and liaise with on-going and conceptual projects. As well as managing projects using a combination of PRINCE2 / Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
Job Titles:
- Transformation Director. Argos, Holland & Barrett
Doug is an experienced turnaround and digital transformation leader having developed the strategy for and governed the delivery of several high-profile retail transformations including Dixons, Argos, Homebase and Holland and Barrett.
He has extensive experience in developing strategies which face into the digital revolution transforming retail and that secure great buy-in at all levels from PLC Board to shop-floor colleagues. This includes the Argos Transformation plan to re-invent itself as a Digital Retail Leader and the Homebase turnaround plan that in twelve months doubled its value and lead to its acquisition by Bunnings.
Doug is well versed in identifying and negotiating strategic partnerships, for example putting Argos concessions into Sainsbury's stores which proved so effective it lead to Sainsbury's subsequent acquisition of Home retail group. As well as managing post-merger integration, such as the integration of Worldstores into Dunelm.
He is also used to being the interface between business operations and technology, most recently advocating agile delivery at Holland & Barrett, having previously experienced the pain of governing large monolithic releases.
Doug now works independently but continues to support CEOs with strategy development and transformation delivery
Doug specialises in:
Strategic diagnostic and strategy development
Plan mobilisation and governance set up
Digital transformation and digital capability building
Strategic partnerships and joint ventures
Corporate venturing / launching new propositions
Doug is a keen runner, although his marathon times continue to worsen with age. Otherwise, he enjoys spending time with his wife and two boys, travelling, and building clocks.
Harriet is an outstanding Finance Director, with extensive experience in both retail and hospitality industries. Since qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in a Big 4 accounting firm she has developed into a natural leader, team builder, influencer and motivator with excellent communication and organisational skills.
After her initial ACA training she has gained invaluable commercial finance experience at Asda Supermarkets. Harriet then moved to QHotels where she spent 11 years building a broad range of financial, operational and commercial experience in a fast paced PE backed hospitality SME. She was involved in the acquisition of 14 hotels, of which she was lead in the financial integration of 6 De Vere Hotels.
Since her experience at QHotels, Harriet has had substantial success in the SME arena gaining a reputation for making complex financial information easy to understand for Business Owners, whilst significantly improving business processes and profitability. She now runs her own business supplying Portfolio Finance Director services to a number of SMEs in a variety of industries including hospitality, recruitment, management consultancy, social enterprise and care homes.
Harriet specialises in:
Financial Review and Strategic Support
Providing meaningful recommendations based on insightful financial analysis
Business Process improvement
Mentoring and coaching non financially astute SME business owners
Outside of work Harriet enjoys spending time with her husband and their 3 young children, and swimming in local North Yorkshire rivers!
Job Titles:
- CEO
- CEO, COO, NED, Advisor. Oasis & Warehouse Group
Hash is an experienced CEO and board level executive, with a proven track record in leading and growing omni-channel businesses. A passionate leader, who understands the importance of creating shareholder value and who forms exceptional relationships with senior leaders across organisations, the industry and strategic partners to help advance the strategy and commercial objective of a business.
Job Titles:
- CIO, Board Advisor, NED. Coca - Cola, Mars, Ferrero
Jane is an experienced technology, digital and business transformation leader and a former global CIO. She has lived and worked in the USA, Japan & Germany and has over 25 years of service in consumer goods companies including Mars, Coca-Cola and Ferrero. She also has other business sector insights gained through Executive and Non-Executive roles in foodservice, oil & gas, higher education and technology consulting.
Strategic thinking, pragmatism and a people-centric approach are the common threads that run through each of her roles. M&A due diligence and the subsequent integration of newly acquired businesses has also been a common theme, as has change management, innovation and business intelligence.
Jane has been recognised by industry peers on a consistent basis over recent years having been included in silicon.com's Top 50 CIOs from 2008-11, CIO Magazine's Top 100 in 2012 - 14 and Computing's Top 100 from 2016-2020. She currently acts as eternal advisor to Bain Consulting and provides mentorship to aspiring CIOs.
Outside of work Jane loves to travel, cook, the theatre and to read. She also enjoys sport, and despite being a proud Mancunian, is an ardent supporter of West Ham United.
Jen is an ambitious senior product and program manager, with a passion for transformation, process improvement and business change. With over 12 years experience working on complex projects and programmes, from blue chip to established retailers and start-up businesses. Key examples include Boots, Holland and Barrett, Halfords and NFU Mutual.
Over the years she has managed a range of projects from large scale business system implementations to process change and operational programmes. Jen thrives in challenging environments and thoroughly enjoys stakeholder management and engagement as well as taking pride in the fact she has turned problem projects around in a matter of months.
Jo's early career years were spent on the business side in retail merchandising before moving into Finance. She has been a CIMA qualified accountant for over 20 years, spending the first 10 years in commercial Finance roles working in large retailers (such as Arcadia & M&S), alongside a stint in consulting (IBM).
She transitioned into a hybrid world of Finance and IT working on large transformation programmes, providing transparency, clarity and improved cost control on financial processes (in companies such as NBC Universal, Christies, Denstu, Selfridges, M&S). For the last 3 years, she has been working more operationally, as a Project Manager (Dr Martens & Soho House), implementing enhancements to Finance systems (Microsoft Dynamics D365) and for the latter BlackLine, a financial close tool required to meet tight SOX deadlines.
She has extensive and broad experience of Finance processes and how IT can improve (and be beneficial to) decision making and day to day operations. Her strengths are understanding complex situations, simplifying them and relating back to the business and or IT. She is a a people person, who enjoys great communication and working with different types of people to understand their issues and provide solutions to resolve them. As well as being pragmatic and action orientated but with always with the customer / client in mind.
Job Titles:
- Global Retail Leader, NED. Debenhams, TM Lewin
John is an accomplished and respected Global Retail Leader and Business Developer. He has transformed the operations of retailers to support a multiple channel strategy and has opened and built businesses in over 40 countries.
He has held roles at Debenhams, where he was Global Business Development Director, and at TM Lewin as International Director, as well as a stint in the Middle East with MH Alshaya.
He has amassed a huge amount of jetlag, building a diversified network of relationships right across the world, including retailers, brands, online platform operators, franchisors, distributors, department stores, supply chain specialists, real estate, government and finance.
John specialises in:
Supporting organisations to build growth
Helping build partnerships globally
John has held advisory board positions on many trade bodies including International Council of Shopping Centres (where he was co-chair of the ICSC Leasing & Retailer committee), Mapics and the Retail Trust. He's a keynote speaker and moderator and is a member of the Twenty Club, an invitation only club for senior retail leaders.
Outside of work John likes to avoid the following: being seen as a 'Mamil' as he cycles around north and west London; ferrying his daughter around various sport and music venues; increasingly unplayable cricket balls from his son's bowling; and looking at the league table to see where his beloved West Brom are currently sitting.
Kate graduated from the University of Reading with a 1st in Zoology and is now part way through her accounting qualifications. So far she has completed AAT level 2 and 3 and is keen to become fully qualified.
She has worked as an Assistant Accountant for the past 2 years and has gained experience in:
Processing invoices
Financial reporting and forecasting
Bank and balance sheet reconciliations
Monitoring the status of accounts payable to faciliate efficient processing
Providing ad hoc assistance to AP coleagues to achieve invoice approval and dealing with queries in an effective manner.
Outside of work, Kate loves travelling, skiing and open water swimming. She also enjoys spending time with family and friends and lots of walkies with Dougie the Labradoodle.
Job Titles:
- Commercial Director at Fortnum & Mason
- Commercial Leader
Lucy has built and led commercial teams for over 25 years across the Grocery, Non-Food and Luxury sectors. Her expertise lies in identifying the right strategy, developing commercial capability and galvanizing teams to land significant change and material benefit.
As a Commercial Leader at Tesco for 10 years, Lucy was known for her ability to deliver successful outcomes by engaging and coaching teams. She worked alongside the country Board teams in Asia and Europe developing and deploying their commercial operating models; and in the UK across multiple categories as Trading Director, leading large buying teams. She was instrumental in developing Tesco's global sourcing capability in Non-Food and headed up Tesco's Pharmacy business.
Most recently Lucy has been the Commercial Director at Fortnum & Mason where she led a focus on product innovation and proposition development, drove the organisations capital expenditure programme and delivering a significant step change in profitability.
A collaborative, energetic and empathetic leader, Lucy enjoys working across teams to solve often complex issues and deliver the right outcome for the brand and its stakeholders.
Lucy specialises in:
Product and proposition development
Sourcing and supply base development
Building the capabilities necessary for growth and coaching teams for commercial success
When not working, Lucy enjoys working her way around the country's most interesting restaurants and food stores, with her two daughters often willing to participate in her eternal 'quest for the best'. As a result, her other main activities are pounding the streets of London in a bid to stay fit, and going for regular swims in the lakes and ponds of London.
Matt Neale has 15 years of senior level recruitment experience within Project and Change Management. He has placed teams that have successfully delivered multi £M change programmes for FTSE and Fortune 100 businesses.
Driven by the lack of service he was able to give to corporates taking an outsourced approach to major projects recruitment, he partnered with leading independent management consultants to create a new business model to do things better.
Mike has worked within IT project delivery for over 25 years across a variety of roles and sectors, gaining extensive experience throughout the full project and software delivery lifecycle. Working within analysis, design, development, testing, delivery, post-delivery and project management. His varied roles have seen him working within a number of sectors including retail supply chain, manufacturing, services and hospitality.
For the last 9 years Mike has specialised as a business analyst. Being highly experienced in every aspect of a business analyst role, Mike understands business needs and aligning project and business objectives, to eliciting requirements with real business benefits via workshops and stakeholder interviews, from compiling compelling business case documentation to supporting projects throughout the business change lifecycle and beyond into benefits realisation.
Job Titles:
- Network Manager
- Specialist
Paula started her career in higher education supporting the commercial function at The University Of Warwick. From there she found her passion for recruitment.
Paula is a specialist recruiter within change and transformation supporting global projects across a multitude of sectors. Her capacity to ensure she is connected and delivers an honest and transparent service to her network enables her to place the right people on the right projects. Her vision is to ensure that associates have the opportunity to continuously develop within their chosen career path.
As network engagement manager, Paula's role within Tessiant is:
first point of contact for all Associates
to ensure Associates are given the tools and opportunity to work on the right projects
sourcing and delivery
Outside of work, Paula enjoys spending time outdoors, whether that be on a beach, on a mountain or walking the dog. She takes a holistic approach to life and ensures that her family are looked after and enjoying life to the full.
Rachael has 10 years experience in strategy consulting and transformation, specialising in retail and consumer brands. Rachael helps businesses drive growth through new routes to market, channel strategy, digital transformation and customer loyalty. Her experience spans categories including fashion, home, grocery and health & beauty.
Before joining Tessiant, Rachael was an Associate Director at Javelin Group, now part of Accenture Ltd, providing strategy consulting, commercial & operational due diligence and digital transformation services to the world's leading retailers, brands and private equity. Rachael also has experience within FMCG having worked in operations, category management and sales for a premium desserts brand.
Job Titles:
- CIO & Tech Leader. Sainsburys, Boots
Rob spent 30 years working in Technology Leadership Roles in UK retailers, and Retail Leadership Roles in consultancies and system integrators. He was previously CIO for Sainsbury's and Boots the Chemists and Vice President for Retail & Consumer Products at Computer Sciences Corporation. He also worked for Marks and Spencer and Arthur Andersen.
He has extensive experience of successfully delivering multi-million pound programmes of technology-enabled change, delivering leading-edge technology innovation and creating best-in-class technology operations. He has also successfully restructured a number of large poorly performing outsourcing contracts and delivered large scale M&A technology integration programmes.
For the last 7 years he has been working with start-up and scale-up technology companies in the UK and bringing the lessons of a 'start-up' mindset and data-led decision making to large corporate clients. He works as a Board Advisor and Non-Executive Director for a number of different companies in the UK.
Outside of work Rob loves spending time with his wife and twin daughters and running a craft microbrewery in the Midlands.
Ross has worked in retail for over 25 years, mainly for Tesco and Morrisons but also with consumer goods suppliers and technology providers. He has had a variety of experience - delivering results through large change programmes, but also in leading operational teams - across supply chain, category management, space, range and merchandising, data and technology. He has worked in supermarkets, convenience, online and wholesale channels - locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. He has also held roles in general business improvement practice and has enjoyed supporting teams and individuals, in coaching and applying these techniques and skills.
Ross' strengths are being able to study customer behaviour, turning complex problems into simple, effective and sustainable solutions. He also enjoys working with people, helping individuals to be at their best and build strong teams. He strives to deliver meaningful output, through his own personal drive and pragmatic approach.
Outside of work, Ross spends most of his time with his wife, running round after their two young sons facilitating attendance at football, golf, tennis, swimming and / or the latest activity of interest! If there is any time left over, Ross will be playing golf, walking up a hill, or watching with worry and low expectations, the mighty Partick Thistle Football Club!
Sam is a highly skilled, dependable and capable change expert with a wide base of experience spread across banking, LP&I, GI, health insurance, energy, travel, retail, telecoms and other. Skilled in managing successful change delivery, with particular focus on organisational change, cyber and M&A integration. He delivers with an intelligent, pragmatic style and engaging personality.
Job Titles:
- Retail CEO & Advisor. Selfridges, Debenhams
Simon joined Selfridges the luxury department store in 2012. During his time Selfridges has been voted Worlds Best Department store 4 times (IGDS). In 2018 he was appointed CEO with responsibility for 5000 team members, a turnover of £2billion and strategic and creative direction. In 2019 he was voted in the top 10 most influential retail leaders in the UK (Drapers Record).
Prior to that he was Customer Director responsible for developing the digital business, supply chain and marketing for selfridges. During that time he lead the growth of the Digital business from £15m to £300m turnover pa.
Other achievements included launching the Selfridges Plus loyatly programme which accounts for over 60% of digital sales and the Selfridges Premium programme for high spending customers. Renowned for innovative customer experiences, Simon also launched a luxury cinema and a skate bowl inside its iconic Oxford Street store in 2019.
Between 2009 - 12 he was Digital Director for Debenhams where his responsibilities included Beauty Club Scheme with over 3 million members.
Previously Simon held a number of senior buying roles and was SVP General Merchandise Manager for TK Maxx between 2003 and 2009.
Since 2020 Simon has adopted a portfolio career and now currently holds a number of Advisor and Non Executive roles working across the global retail industry.
Since Graduating from Nottingham Trent University with a degree in business management and marketing, Sophie has so far gained 4 years of valuable experience within the marketing industry, within a professional environment. She has successfully built up the social profiles, websites, brand awareness and followings for companies operating in varying industries, from the professional service sector to the hospitality sector.
As Tessiant's Marketing Manager, Sophie specialises in:
Devising and developing a clear marketing strategy for the company.
Managing all social channels for the company.
Designing all content to be put out on different platforms.
Building up the company's online presence and following, to make clients and associates more brand aware.
Editing and creating new aspects for the Tessiant website.
Providing marketing support to all the partners within Tessiant in terms of communicating their offerings to the wider audience.
Outside of work, Sophie loves to spend time with her fiancée and baby boy, and family and friends. As well as keeping active by going to the gym, and on long walks. Not forgetting the guilty pleasure of getting immersed into any reality TV series going.
Stuart has over 20 years experience in technology, the last 18 of which have been spent working in high street and grocery retail. Most recently at Sainsbury's, he has led large matrix teams across various product, engineering, architecture and operations domains whilst managing sizeable capital and operating budgets. He also delivered multiple tech strategy and operating model iterations, including a full infrastructure/cloud and connectivity overhaul, an agile ways of working transformation and reinvention of the sourcing models used in the technology team.
Prior to that, he worked in a variety of leadership roles at Halfords, covering technology strategy, planning, governance, delivery and sourcing. He is passionate about talent development in the leadership space and building the right culture in organisations to improve productivity, colleague engagement and creative thinking.
Stuart specialises in:
Technology strategy, operating models, change and transformation
End to end lifecycle management of technology products, ensuring transparent value-add return on investment
Insourcing, outsourcing, supplier relationship management
Bringing agility and pace to ways of working
Open and high-trust stakeholder relationships
Building and motivating high-performing large-scale teams
Cultural and behavioural leadership
Coaching and mentoring
Away from work, Stuart enjoys life in the countryside with his wife Jo, daughter Jasmine, 3 dogs and many chickens, reading audiobooks whilst out running, photography and experiencing the many ups and downs of supporting Everton.
Stuart has extensive experience, with over 30 years in retail, operations, supply chain, online and wholesale.
An outstanding leader with international experience, he has previously held roles such as Store Operations at Tesco UK; Property Director Space / Range / Merchandising at Tesco UK; COO at Tesco Malaysia; Retail Director/General Manager at Coles Australia and Business Transformation Consultant at Boots Alliance / Walgreens USA.
More recently he was the Operations Director / Group Supply Chain at Morrison's UK and the Managing Director at DrakeSmith Associates, transforming performance across Retail / Digital operations and supply chains end to end, with artificial intelligence/machine learning and robotics, leading people, improving processes and implementing new systems.
Stuart specialises in:
Creating value in end-to-end supply chains and businesses
Transformation programmes across businesses
Using AI and machine learning solutions to develop and improve business and supply chain operating models
Developing capability and process to improve businesses for customers, colleagues and shareholders
Outside of work Stuart enjoys spending time with his wife, son and daughter, travelling, playing golf badly, reading and following West Ham's fortunes.
Job Titles:
- CEO, NED & Mentor. Harvey Nichols, Harrods, Joyce
Tania is a highly experienced professional with over 30 years of expertise in Luxury Retail and a commitment to Sustainability. Founder and CEO of online ethical jewellery boutique La Maison Couture and Founding COO of The Maiyet Collective. She has held senior management positions in leading department stores around the world including Browns, Harvey Nichols, Joyce HK and General Manager at Harrods.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder, Advisor. Javelin Group
Job Titles:
- Chief Enterprise Architect
Will is a commercially focused and innovative Global Technology leader with a wealth of experience in strategy development, architecture, delivery and digital transformation.
He has a successful track record in industry leading global companies in consumer brands, manufacturing, supply chain and transportation. Most recently Will has held the position of Chief Enterprise Architect at Maersk, the world's leading integrated container logistics company and, prior to that, at Mars, the global manufacturer of confectionery, pet food and a provider of animal care services.
A former management consultant, Will now has over 10 years of Global Technology Leadership experience, 6 years as a CIO in $1bn turnover companies and 7 years as a Chief Architect. This breadth of technology experience combined with commercial acumen, board directorships and mergers and acquisition leadership, allows Will to bring a business focused mindset to technology investment strategies.
He is a natural leader who can engage, mentor, develop and manage high performing teams with a strength in building relationships and engaging with a variety of stakeholders.
Will specialises in:
Enterprise Architecture, Technology Strategy and Investments;
Digital transformation and innovation;
Strategic technology vendor management;
Mergers and Acquisitions with a focus on post-acquisition delivery.
Outside of work, Will has a wide interest in sports. He is a qualified sports coach and he participated in the 2012 London Olympics - as a volunteer, not an athlete!
After graduating with a degree in Business & International Relations from Aston Univeristy, Yomola trained as a consultant where she completed a range of professional certifications in Business Analysis and Project Management. With a passion for project management, Yomola focused her career here where she has gained 4+ years of experience in public and private sector with clients such as Capgemini, HMRC and AWE.
Before joining Tessiant, Yomola worked on a number of different Digital Transformation Projects where she played a crucial role in optimising operations, enhancing customer experiences, and driving growth. She is highly skilled in analysing data, stakeholder management and implementing governance.
Outside of work, Yomola enjoys travelling, spnding time with family and friends, and watching criminal investigative shows.
Zofia focuses on change and programme management and has an academically rooted passion for market research. Particularly, she's passionate about digital transformation delivery. Since joining Tessiant, she's been supporting a global retailer in their product range, merchandising and distribution transformation across workstreams.
Before joining Tessiant, Zofia worked as a research project manager, where she specialised in end-to-end delivery of quantitative and qualitative research projects. Among others, she delivered digital transformation reports for one of the Big Four companies and managed international UX research projects. Then, she joined Deloitte in the Human Centered Transformation offering, where she supported finance and digital transformations of global e-commerce and packaged consumer goods clients, from organisational design to on-the-ground change management and communications. Her consulting skills are supported by her academic background in Organisational and Social Psychology gained at The University of Edinburgh and LSE, where she focused on organisational development, organisational culture and social identity management.
Zofia spends most of her spare time trying to manage her extensive network of friends, across London Boroughs, countries and continents. Otherwise, she enjoys cooking, a daily dose of sports, traveling and exploring London's rich cultural and culinary scene - all of those activities preferably done with her close ones.