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Meet The Team

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Ian Barker

Managing Partner

Ian shapes the BFY vision and inspires our team to bring it to life, while remaining central to complex client engagements in Strategy, Commercial, and Operations.

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Rachel Littlewood

Director

Rachel leads our Financial Optimisation work streams, working with leaders to improve profitability & cashflow

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Tom Bromwich

Director

Tom leads client engagements with a particular focus on commercial strategy, pricing, customer acquisition and retention.

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Kelly Payne

Director

Kelly helps clients achieve operational excellence to improve customer outcomes, employee engagement, and optimising cost to serve.

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Lisa Moran

Director

Lisa leads client engagements with a focus on operational excellence, transformation, and continuous improvement.

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Simon Day

Group Finance Director

Simon leads our Finance and business support teams, working with our leaders to deliver exception client work, engage top talent and generate free cashflow.

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Cheryl Richards

Principal

Cheryl is leading BFY Group’s expansion into Financial Services, leveraging her experience and knowledge to establish BFY Group as a trusted partner in this new sector.

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Jon Vincent

Senior Manager

Jon helps clients resolve problems with billing, settlements, and customer service.

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Jonathan Paton

Senior Manager

Jon specialises in Customer Operations leadership, customer contact, and operational service delivery transformation/improvement.

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Lauren McCullough

Manager

Lauren leads our clients through Operational Excellence, Lean Transformations and Continuous Improvement activity.

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Joseph Cooper

Manager

Joseph supports our Retail clients to improve their operational processes and business performance.

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Matt Turner

Manager

Matt helps lead clients through key strategic projects exploring growth opportunities, business models, competitive advantage, and mergers & acquisitions.

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Kev Brown

Manager

Kev leads our continuous improvement and lean transformations, working with leaders to deliver our Operational Excellence programme.

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Zander Cleves

Manager

Zander specialises in change management and business transformation, delivering commercial insight to clients through financial modelling.

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Angela Tooley

Head of Private Equity, Real Estate & ESG

Angela specialises in the creation and implementation of growth strategies, as well as supporting clients through special situations, with M&A advisory, restructuring, and crisis management.

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Ed Breslin

Manager

Ed works with clients to improve their cash flow/revenue delivery, and leading the Commercial/Financial Modelling within our M&A/Transaction Advisory engagements.

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Richard Laking

Manager

Richard helps clients to assure exceptional performance through controls implementation, and the identification of operational and financial efficiencies.

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John Scott

Manager

John partners with our clients to deliver transformation and performance improvement - focussing on operational improvement, strategic and regulatory programme delivery, and process design/implementation.

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Andrew Santiago

Financial Controller

Andrew business partners our teams, driving value and maintaining controls to enable exceptional client work, sustainable profit, and the generation of free cashflow.

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Catherine Kirkman

Executive Support Manager

Cat helps keep the BFY ship sailing smoothly, supporting our Exec team and wider business in delivering exceptional work for our clients.

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Craig Sutherland

Senior Consultant

Craig has experience working on both large and small-scale business transformations, IT and people migration programmes, change management and leading cultural transformation.

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Holly Odle

Senior Consultant

Holly supports clients with large-scale business transformation programmes, delivering significant bottom line improvements through back-office optimisation.

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Leanne Armstrong

Senior Consultant

Leanne helps clients to achieve operational excellence through demand reduction, process optimisation, and cost to serve initiatives.

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Arek Swedrowski

Senior Consultant

Arek helps clients to achieve Operational Excellence with demand reduction, performance improvements, and process optimisation.

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Natasha Lunt

Senior Consultant

Natasha helps clients to improve their operational processes and business performance, through planning and performance tracking.

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Ashley McLeod

Senior Consultant

Ashley helps clients to achieve Operational Excellence by driving continuous improvement, across people, processes, and systems.

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Louise Willumsen

Senior Consultant

Louise helps clients to achieve Operational Excellence, and specialises in driving continuous improvement through sales and retention performance, and process efficiency.

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Emma Kassim

Senior Consultant

Emma specialises in complex change management and digital transformation, delivering operational excellence through improved customer journey and process efficiency.

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Carl Dixon

Senior Consultant

Carl helps clients to implement sustainable change, building a deep understanding of value streams and targeting the root causes of problems.

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Kayleigh Gray

Senior Consultant

Kayleigh specialises in change management with retail clients, helping to maximise efficiencies, improve revenue and reduce costs.

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Stephanie Dunn

Senior Consultant

Stephanie helps clients to enhance business performance and deliver exceptional customer outcomes, through insight, operational excellence, and transformation initiatives.

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Josh Marlow

Senior Consultant

Josh specialises in Lean Transformation, helping clients to achieve Operational Excellence by optimising processes and improving customer journeys.

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Wade Robertson

Consultant

Wade specialises in Transformation, Value Creation and Project Management, helping clients to identify and deliver on opportunities of significant value.

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Matt Atkinson

Consultant

Matt helps clients to deliver operational improvements, focussing on Operational Excellence, debt, and vendor management.

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John de Bono

Consultant

John performs various analyses to provide BFY and their clients with unique insights, which help to inform decision making and inspire exceptional performance.

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Steve Cheung

Consultant

Steve provides data expertise to our clients, helping them to identify opportunities, evidence business benefits, and develop objective performance tracking.

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Tom Deen

Consultant

Tom works with clients to maximise efficiencies, improve processes, and ensure strong relationships are maintained.

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Sophie Taylor-Jackson

Consultant

Sophie helps our clients to transform their business by identifying challenges, and realising potential efficiencies or optimisations.

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Charlotte Warman

Consultant

Charlotte helps our clients focus on their operational improvement strategy, and implement robust processes to enable informed decision making.

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Sue Moon

Senior Recruiter

Sue has over 25 years of recruitment experience, having worked both as an agency manager and then moving to internal.

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Jacob Goddard

Marketing Executive

Jacob delivers engaging content across our online and offline channels, helping to develop BFY’s presence and enhance growth.

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I get real job satisfaction from doing great work for our clients, who trust us to deliver the messages and the changes that are needed – and I’m really proud to be able to do this with small teams of great people. Rachel Littlewood Director