Matt Hamnett
Matt is the firm’s founder and managing partner. He is an expert in strategy, policy, sales, transformation and innovation.
He was previously a senior official in Government, growth leader in the BPO sector, and CEO of an education group.
Victoria Edwards
Victoria is the firm’s chief operating officer. She is an expert in financial operations, and people-led transformation and change.
She was a senior operations leader in a globally-recognised higher education institution before joining the firm.
Dan Heard
Dan leads the firm’s engagement with central Government. He is an expert in policy, strategy, and strategic business development.
He was a senior civil servant, and strategic sales leader in the BPO and the big consulting sectors before he joined the firm.
James Sowray
James is the partner who leads our work in the education sector. He is an expert in commercial strategy, transformation and operations.
Before joining the firm, he grew and led national, Ofsted outstanding, skills and apprenticeship provisions in large training providers.
Katy Weeks
Katy oversees client quality across the firm - including our tools and AI adoption. She is an expert in public policy and service transformation.
She was a senior civil servant, where she served as private secretary to the deputy prime minister, amongst other roles, before joining the firm.
Clare Boden-Hatton
Clare leads our work with place-based bodies. She is an expert in leveraging devolved funding to improve employment and skills outcomes.
Before joining us, she held senior roles in a mayoral combined authority, further education college, and national skills funding agency.
Coming soon
Our most recent senior hire is an expert in social and economic policy, with more than fifteen years’ experience working at senior levels in Whitehall.
Gemma Gronland
Gemma leads the firm’s international education and qualification, assessment and curriculum work. She continues to teach at UCL’s institute of education alongside her work in the firm.
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.
