D-DROP CONSULTING - Key Persons
Living just outside Milton Keynes, Damian also supports clients in and around London, Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire. He is highly ethical with a passion for business improvement.
Ann has been an independent IT and business consultant for 14 years, working predominantly in the hospitality, retail and leisure sectors, working for most of the major High Street restaurant and pub brands.
A technology leader with over 25 years experience of digital transformation, change management, IT department and programme leadership.
Kathryn Jackson BA(Hons) CPFA has worked in consultancy for 13 years, supporting finance and data transformation projects in businesses undergoing both operational and strategic change. Her sector experience spans leisure, hospitality, airports, construction business process outsourcing and financial services. Her earlier career was spent leading finance teams in GSK and a large multi-site pub company.
Kathryn's breadth of consulting experience has advanced her understanding of how to optimise finance teams, processes and technology, and this, alongside her own finance functional skill-set, attention to detail and willingness to roll up her sleeves makes Kathryn a true asset to her clients many of whom list in their feedback her commitment, ability to grasp and manage complexity and ambiguity, cheerfulness under pressure and they like the fact that she feels like "one of the team."
Kathryn's versatility has seen her perform in consultancy roles where she has delivered projects end-to-end with an involvement in every aspect from RFP to Hyper-care whereas on very large-scale transformations she may be in charge of a particular work-stream; R2R, P2P and BI are particular areas of interest.
Kathryn's most recent assignment was for a Swiss asset management company. The brief was to replace an obsolete multi-company, multi-currency finance system and standardise the chart of accounts and finance processes globally. Kathryn led the project and managed the relationships between Finance, IT PMO and 3rd party vendors. Particular challenges centred on the 14 interfaces which had to be re-written with no documentation and a new team in place. Data migration was complex due to the fact that the existing chart of accounts was not consistent across all entities and the new chart of accounts was structured very differently necessitating a multi-dimensional mapping rule-set. By having a clear data migration strategy and time-line, risks were identified early and Kathryn was able to line up resource, perform dress rehearsals and agree pragmatic contingency options with her client well in advance.
Kathryn qualified as an accountant in 1996. She also speaks excellent French and Italian.
Kathryn has worked in consultancy for 13 years, supporting finance and data transformation projects in across multiple sectors.
An expert at aligning technology roadmaps to business strategy and articulation of complex issues to executives. Engaging at both a strategic board level yet able to become hands on when needed, Damian enables businesses to confidently execute projects in the face of significant technical uncertainty.
Damian is reliable, trustworthy, strong in business engagement and was someone that l looked towards for leadership and clarity
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Founding Consultant of D - Drop Consulting
- Founding Consultants at D - Drop Consulting
A founding consultant of D-Drop Consulting, Mike has over 25 years leadership experience across multiple areas of business and technology services.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Programme Manager
Noel Sibbald is an accomplished Programme Manager / Senior Programme Leader. Innovative versatile and commercially astute with diverse experience across B2B, B2C, retail, education, healthcare, transportation, IT services and corporate sectors.
Noel has a collaborative approach to successful transformational leadership, engaging with business stakeholders at C-level / Board & 3rd parties, delivering ‘fit for purpose' solutions & technology-enabled business change.
An expert at working within complex environments, acting as a conduit to bring together technical and business stakeholders to achieve targeted business outcomes over the full programme lifecycle. Noel has worked with teams across Europe.
Noel is highly determined, able to design and execute effective project delivery strategies, vision and roadmaps, whilst positively influencing company culture, driving innovation and transforming existing ways of working.
Noel has experience of leading business transformation, end-to-end programme delivery, RAID logs & governance, Prince & Agile, change management, performance improvement, increased productivity and full business benefits realisation.
Noel is an accomplished Programme Manager & Senior Programme Leader. Innovative versatile and commercially astute with diverse experience across B2B, B2C, retail, education, healthcare, transportation, IT services and corporate sectors.
Paul has many years experience working in the technology sector at many blue chip companies including JPMorgan, Specsavers and SSE.