Our Team
Knowledge, practical skills, experience and common sense differentiate our principals and associates
Alan Simmonds
Alan has over 29 years of solid experience in governance
(technology, corporate and contract) and strategy across a broad
spectrum of industry and commerce resulting in a proven capability
of helping organisations meet their regulatory and legislative
obligations.
He has significant practical experience of how governance and
regulatory issues are successfully managed and adopted by
organisations through the innovative use of organisational
structures, processes, controls, audit and assurance.
Alan is a key contributor to COBIT 5 (ISACA) and TOGAF (Open Group) in the area of
architecture governance and is the prime author of the research
paper
Governance of Outsourcing for the ITGI.
David Gilmour
David has worked internationally and within the UK for the last
28 years with key responsibilities in major corporations
specialising in contractual relationship management and cultural
integration in command and demand economies.
In the Central European Republics and the Community of
Independent States, he assisted in-country branches of global
entities to integrate into the local cultures. Implementation and
formalisation of robust and pragmatic governance processes were key
to success.
David's contribution is to implement these controls in a
practical manner across and within multiple different cultural and
legal systems and companies, ensuring a consistent approach and
sensible compliance with relevant standards.
John Brits
John has worked principally in the financial services, large
retail, telecoms and military sectors for over 23 years.
Most recently, he has provided consultancy and development of
business governance processes. This included the design and
development of workflow automation, and the development of
governance controls to meet compliance obligations.
He also has developed highly automated large-scale systems for
installation, deployment, integration, configuration and
maintenance.
Eric Smith
An experienced enterprise architect, business analyst and
consultant, Eric has over 34 years experience in the specification,
design and delivery of large scale software systems in the
manufacturing, retail and financial services sectors.
He has practical experience across all aspects of the systems
lifecycle, with particular emphasis on the alignment of IT and
business strategy through comprehensive stakeholder management,
accurate capture of business requirements, and the application of
principle-based enterprise architecture frameworks.
Most recently he has been developing and applying model-based
techniques to the capture, validation and communication of business
requirements for the citizen's portal to a major government
department.
David Culver
Dave has over 30 years experience as a respected technical
architect specialising as a software design and implementation
engineer. He has extensive experience of operating systems, device
drivers and communications and has architected large-scale
innovative solutions across a variety of industries including
banking, mining, computer OEM suppliers and defence. Dave's
experience covers high-volume transaction processing, software
distribution and management, device emulators, communications and
enterprise service buses.
He was instrumental in the design leadership of a highly
successful software organisation's product base.
Dave has lead many technology due diligence initiatives
supporting significant business change programmes with a specalism
in the financial services industry. In this area he has a proven
record in establishing the large scale rationalisation of the
technology landscape.
Kevin McLoughlin
Kevin is an experienced business and information systems
professional and large-scale programme manager.
He has particular skills in the areas of programme management,
strategic and technical consulting, and the design and
implementation of large-scale technology solutions.
With 30 years in business Kevin has a proven record of
successfully implementing principles, practices and technical
approaches that have contributed to sound and robust solutions to
both business and technical problems.
Kevin has worked across many industry sectors including
financial services, IT services and property development.
Nicholas Sleep
Nick has over 20 years experience in the pharmaceutical
industry.
He has led clients in validating systems for use under Food and
Drug Administration (FDA)
regulatory control.
He has managed complex multi-site business process engineering
projects within pharmaceutical early-stage research. In addition,
he has defined and rolled-out project management and development
standards.
More recently, Nick has been CEO of a biotechnology start-up
company developing advanced medicinal devices.
