OPS Our People

Our people have hands on experience with:

4C Associates

Freelance Writer

Meads LTD

Securicor Omega Express International

Allied Polymers

Goodhead Press

MOD

Securicor Pony Express

Andre Deutsch Ltd

Handley Page Ltd

New Look Retailers

Selfridges

Asda

Hatka Consultancy Limited

News International

Smiths Industries Aerospace

Auctionworld.tv

HealthcareLogistics (Movianto)

Nightfreight

Super Group

Automotive Products

HM Customs & Excise

Nottingham University

Systemcare

Aviva Insurance

Homebase

Office Depot

Tconsult Business Solutions

BBC

Homespeed

Olney Pre-School

The BJD Group

Bio-Rad Laboratories Ltd

House of Fraser

Owrid Associates

The Burton Group

BOC

IBM Distribution

Parcelforce

The Negotiation Academy

Bonnita

Iceland Group

Parmalat

Tibbett and Britten

Book Centre Ltd

Ingersoll-Rand

PGA 1993 - 2006

TLB (SuperGroup)

British Car Auctions

Isotrak Limited

Pickwick Consulting Limited

TNT

Business Post

Jugg Foods.

Profit Focus Group

TPL Logistics Management

Busy Bees Montessori

Karl Gross UK Ltd

Radical (Barloworld Logistics)

Tri-Star transport

BWA Commercial Ltd

Knorr-Bremse SCV Ltd

Rentokil

Unipart Logistics

Caradon Bathrooms Global

KPMG

Return Logistics

United Nations

Computeraid Services Ltd

Kuehne & Nagel

RHP Bearings Ltd

US Air Force

DHL

Laura Ashley plc

Royal Air Force

Venda.com and Metapack

Docdata Fulfilment

Lep International Ltd

Royal Fleet Auxiliary

W.L Gore

Dunlop

Lidl UK

Royal Mail Group plc

Walford Meadows Ltd

Exel plc

Littlehampton Book Services Ltd

SAM Direct Group

Who Reads Ltd

Expeditors International

Littlewoods Home Delivery Services

Scottish Express International

Woolworths PLC

Fire Service

Lynx Express

Securicor Omega Express

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Our People

Edward Bannatyne - 
Senior Consultant

Edward has 25 years of Operational Management Leadership and improvement covering Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Logistics, Global Distribution, Planning and Project Management. He develops staff, management and teams to world class self-challenging performance levels. He improves Customer Service and Profitability helping organisations embed ownership and engagement.

Dave Buxton

Dan Pellicano - 
Senior Consultant

Dan’s career spans more than 28-years with some of the world’s largest Transportation and Logistics firms and includes P&L experience with budgets reaching $600M, General Management, Engineering, Consulting, Process Redesign, Project Management, Sales, Marketing, Public Affairs, Public Relations, Research and Development, IT, Employee Relations, Labour Relations and Negotiation, and Human Asset Management. He holds change management qualifications together with a BA in English.

Dan Pellicano

Jonathan Watt - 
Senior Consultant

Jonathan is an international procurement and supply-chain executive with 20 years senior management and project experience across multiple sectors leading time and business critical improvements on spends from £50m to £5bn. He has led and delivered significant improvements in sourcing, contract management, supplier performance management and logistics in UK and international operations. He is a qualified Engineer and MBA.

Jonathan Watt

Karl Alderton - 
Senior Consultant

Karl is a communications expert who holds a number of years senior level experience  working within a variety of functions within the BT Group, where he headed up regional area budgets in excess of £10m. Karl particularly specialises in Communications Cost Management and implementing communication systems to improve customer service and reduce costs.

Karl Alderton

Alec Jenns - 
Senior Consultant

Alec has 24 years engineering and Sales experience in the logistics field and he has operated at senior management level within the largest UK distribution company where he managed one of their largest, most prestigious and important clients. His specialisms include delivering marketing and sales solutions and providing associated training.

Alec Jenns

Andrew Turrall - 
Senior Consultant

Andrew has 17 years UK and International experience, including production, purchasing, materials & logistics, quality and systems. His skills include ERP/SAP solutions, diagnosing business and systems issues, creating and delivering high quality, cost effective, pragmatic solutions, and implementing new processes/ procedures. He holds a BA in Chemistry and a DMS.

Andrew Turrall

Andy Jenkins - 
Senior Consultant

Andy has over 22 years operational and programme management experience within Transport and Distribution. He has a successful track record of managing large scale operations and planning large and complex projects/programmes including multimodal distribution networks. He holds a BA(Hons) in Ancient History and is management services and transport (CPC) qualified.

Andy Jenkins

Angela Bradford - 
Senior Consultant

Angela has 14 years B2B marketing experience and can provide a complete range of marketing services with a particular focus on integrated marketing, business development and web solutions. She holds a BSc HONS Degree in European Business and Technology an advanced certificate in marketing management and is project management qualified.

Angela Bradford

Ann Chiverton - 
Senior Consultant

Ann has 21 years specialist experience in the vehicle rental industry and can provide both innovative rental advice, cost analysis and solutions together with an extensive personal network which can provide tailored vehicle provision packages, giving national coverage for cars and commercials from an extensive range of vehicle rental suppliers.

Ann Chiverton

Chris Wright - 
Senior Consultant

Chris is a results-oriented senior Sales Director with 40 years experience with the likes of Logica, Fastnet and Ryder PLC amongst others. He offers a solid background of experience and has a track record of significant accomplishments in complex technical sales projects. He is innovative and organised, with a history of developing comprehensive strategies and translating them into practical tactics, producing results.

Chris Wright

Dave Buxton - 
Senior Consultant

David is a specialist business simulation modeller and project manager with 10 years experience in areas like risk modelling, supply chain simulation, capacity planning, operational design & system implementation. He holds a BSc Degree in Geography, an MSc in Ops Management & Manufacturing systems and a Phd in Ops Management.

Dave Buxton

David Knight - 
Senior Consultant

David has 28 years UK and International experience across both Sales & Operations. He has managed ground, air and customs operations and has led company wide change, quality accreditation, employee engagement and customer retention programmes. He holds a BA(Hons) in History and sociology and a post graduate diploma in management studies.

David Knight

David Window - 
Senior Consultant

David has 17 years experience in logistics and supply chain upto director and general manager level. He has managed general and change projects and has significant experience of high volume National (NDC), Regional (RDC) and Import Centre warehousing, large scale transport operations,  primary and secondary distribution, home delivery and E-fulfilment.

David Window

Doug Clark - 
Senior Consultant

Doug holds a BSc(Hons) in environmental management & systems thinking and has 29 years experience in military and logistics service providers and IT service industries. His specialisms include the system integration of IT solutions and change management in the implementation of supply chain management, route planning/ scheduling, and telematics systems.

Doug Clark

Ian Gowers - 
Senior Consultant

Ian has 31 years senior experience in International Logistics, Freight Forwarding and IT network solutions, including responsibility for teams operating in war and volatile areas. His specialisms include customs, business process, IT project management, systems (SDLC) and (siips), procurement/ tenders, IT governance, controls and risk management and Due Diligence reports.

Ian Gowers

Jeff Warnock - 
Senior Consultant

Jeff has 34 years logistics experience particularly in the FMCG market and is an end to end process specialist having managed all the functional areas within operations. He is a Graduate of RAF Cranwell and holds qualifications from Cranfield in supply chain redesign together with CIPS and Prince 2 qualifications.

Jeff Warnock

John Gascoyne - 
Senior Consultant

John has over 39 years finance, supply chain, and technology experience across a wide range of British and African industrial sectors including automotive, FMCG, food and drink, printing, chemicals, 3PL and general industrial. He holds a BSc (Hons) from the university of Nottingham in psychology with mathematical statistics and philosophy/logic.

John Gascoyne

John Webster - 
Senior Consultant

John has 17 years experience both within and outside logistics. His specialism is in the provision of staff on a permanent, interim or temporary basis but by understanding both the customer and their market sector he provides not only resource but also added value advice and measurement to the process.

John Webster

Kevin Holland - 
Senior Consultant

Kevin has 30 years experience in marketing and sales in B2B, B2C as a sales and marketing director, providing strategic and operational support to improve company's sales and marketing performance, and providing coaching/training to the sales/marketing team. With a post graduate degree in marketing, he is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.


Lillie Potter - 
Senior Consultant
Lillie’s primary interest is helping small and medium businesses to grow and develop.  Her areas of expertise include strategy and business plan development, change management, investment due diligence and portfolio company support.  Lillie’s experience is focused on the consumer and leisure markets, with a particular strength in hospitality.


Mike Finney - 
Senior Consultant

Mike has 32 years international and national, user, provider and advisor experience in logistics and related disciplines. He provides lead logistics and order fulfilment and distribution with specialism in compliance for customs/excise regimes, from tax points to authorised economic operator assistance and labelling requirements for goods for sale in EU.

Mike Finney

Mike Gray - 
Senior Consultant

Mike has 21 years senior commercial relationship experience including revenue improvement, commercial partnerships/sponsorship, licensing, brand/trademark strategies, publishing projects and internet strategy. He holds a town planning diploma and specialises in advising/staging and the logistics of major sporting events including infrastructure planning, traffic and security management, sponsorship, competitor and spectator requirements.

Mike Gray

Mukul Gandhi - 
Senior Consultant

Mukul has 28 years experience as a consultant in communications technology, he has top 4 consultancy experience with KPMG and provides innovative solutions and a wide range of skills and services to challenging business problems. He holds a finance degree from London Guildhall and is also chartered accountant (ACA) qualified.

Mukul Gandhi

Myles Simpson - 
Senior Consultant

Myles has 30 years experience in retail logistics most recently working in fast track supply chain, procurement and facilities environments. He has achieved recognition and success in highly technical and demanding situations, where world class solutions are required using commercial common sense approaches. He is results oriented and people focused.

Myles Simpson

Paul Mason MBE, BSc, MEI - 
Senior Consultant

Paul has 30 years experience in logistics and supply chain. He specialises in fuel management, fuel suppliers and building and running fuel farms with expertise in quality assurance, operations and aircraft refuelling and associated operating procedures. He holds an MBE, a BSc in Science and technology and fuel management qualifications.

Paul Mason MBE, BSc, MEI

Ryno Badenhorst - 
Senior Consultant

Ryno has 16 years UK and International experience in B2B and B2C markets focused on strategic design & distribution planning. He has  expert knowledge of multi-national, multi-modal supply chain network design/modelling and holds a Master’s Degree Commerce in Transport Economics & Logistics and a BA HONS Degree in Business Administration.

Ryno Badenhorst

Simon Croft - 
Senior Consultant

Simon has over 25 years experience in transport, distribution and spare parts logistics and was a board member of one of the UK's leading same day businesses. He is six sigma greenbelt qualified and specialises in consultancy & interim management services along with practical outplacement services for all staff levels.

Simon Croft

Simon Veale - 
Senior Consultant

Simon has 34 years logistics experience and has operated at board level within Blue Chip organisations. His specialises in the sales arena and has run revenue budgets upto £1,400m and had direct and indirect responsibility for upto 10 and 1400 staff respectively. He holds qualifications in both sales and salesmanship

Simon Veale

Stephen Bailey - 
Senior Consultant
Stephen has been a senior manager for over 20 years within the retail and wholesale food distributive industry which has given him extensive experience of end-to-end supply chain management, stock control, inventory management, demand planning and promotional forecasting in addition to several spells in procurement. MCIPS qualified and with a successful record of effective team management, recruitment, coaching and training up to management level.

Stephen Bailey

Ted Maley - 
Senior Consultant

Ted has 27 years materials handling, logistics and supply chain experience. His specialisms include warehouse process improvement, warehouse management systems, customer service, order to cash cycles, on-time in-full achievement, total reviews of distribution businesses and supporting business systems. He holds a BSc(Hons) in Mech Eng and an MBA from Cranfield.

Ted Maley

Terry Cristofoli - 
Senior Consultant

Terry has over 30 years senior management experience in providing global supply chain and logistics solutions within manufacturing, wholesaling and high street retailing. He has managed own account and contract logistics operations, has significant interim management and consultancy experience, is transport (CPC) qualified and holds an HND in aeronautical engineering.

Terry Cristofoli

Tim Owrid - 
Senior Consultant

Tim has 28 years retail supply chain experience including operations, merchandising, systems, sourcing, MCR and logistics and shipping companies. He has extensive retail knowledge in apparel, DIY, entertainment and general merchandise and has held board/exec level appointments within some of the UK's major retail chains. He holds a BA(Hons) history.

Tim Owrid

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