OUR team

Matt Hamnett

Matt is the firm’s founder. He is a creative, commercial, strategist who specialises in connecting the strategic and operational, and the public and private sectors, to improve outcomes.

He was previously a senior official in Government - where he led national policy, spending and high value delivery work - growth leader in the BPO sector, and CEO of a large education group.

James Sowray

James is a partner in the firm, and our market leader in the education and training sectors. He is an expert in transformation, operations and learning product development.

Before joining the firm, he grew and led large, national, Ofsted outstanding, training provisions in colleges and training providers. He has worked extensively with awarding sector clients.

Katy Weeks

Katy is our market leader for central Government and the health and care sector. She is an expert in public service reform with the rare ability to connect politics, policy and delivery.

Before joining the firm, she spent fifteen years in the civil service, working across education, health and care - and as private secretary to the deputy prime minister during the coalition period.

james garbett

James is the firm’s principal bid lead, with experience leading multi-million pound ITO and BPO arrangements in both the public and private sectors.

Gemma Gronland

Gemma is an expert in curriculum and assessment, with a passion for international development. She leads the firm’s work in Ghana and the work we are doing to take that capability into other nations. She holds an MA in education from Harvard, and teaches at UCL’s institute of education.

Chris McKibbin

Chris is an expert in the adoption of emerging tech to improve public services. Before joining us he facilitated innovation and solution development activity in a FTSE BPO organisation.

AMber sargent

Amber has over two decades experience in NHS service design, redesign and investigations.

TOM Whitehead

Tom has over two decades’ experience in policy development and programme delivery for major Government projects, focused on climate, energy and business.

Rebecca hayes

Rebecca is in expert in customer experience and engagement. She has held senior customer and sales roles in a variety of public service delivery organisation - and has worked with education, Government and commercial clients since she joined the firm in 2020.

jaime SIMS

hilary bretag

alex evans

emily searle

Ciara Sowerby

chris summers

fatimah toufiq

Our operations team…

Sade akindele

Sade is our head of operations, and leads all of our support services - including e.g. finance, compliance, people and development, culture and IT.

lorraine lockington

‘Lolo’ is executive assistant to the founder and market leaders - and is therefore often the first person many colleagues will meet when they engage with the firm.