Partners

Our team consists of hands-on business executives and management consultants.  We are entirely independent, providing impartial advice.  Our clients always engage with the "A Team", supported as needed by subject matter experts we've collaborated with for many years.  We work in small teams alongside client leadership teams, and our fees remain competitive, free from the "large firm" overheads.

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Graham Oates

With over 40 years’ finance, technology, consulting and business leadership experience Graham has extensive experience in the strategic development and operation of global professional and technology services and solutions businesses including 14 years as a Managing Partner with KPMG – in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific.

Following his career with KPMG, Graham has operated his own strategic growth consultancy.  He was the first Independent Chair of the UK’s Insolvency Service and Companies Investigations, Branch, Executive Chair of the UK’s largest rail ticketing software company, CEO of a boutique Executive Search business and NED and Advisory Board member to several organisations.

He has experience of working in virtually every industry across private, public and not for profit sectors and now on helping scaling businesses to successfully navigate the growth journey.


Chris Gant

Chris is an experienced management consultant and trusted advisor having spent 25 years as a Partner and Senior Executive at leading firms such as EY, KPMG, Capgemini and WPP. He specialises in: Business Transformation, Technology Strategy and Enablement, Enterprise Resource Planning, Digital

Innovation - especially Al and automation.

He has a wealth of international client experience and has led major engagements for industry giants such as Shell, Barclays, HSBC, Saudi Aramco and PIF. He has worked in both private and public sectors and with both large multinationals and SMEs.

He has vast experience in building Go-to-Market Partnerships with major technology providers such as SAP, Microsoft, AWS and Salesforce. Under his leadership, EY won the prestigious Global Innovation Award with SAP for "Proximity Monitor" in 2021.

He is passionate about scaling early-stage technology companies and delivering growth through motivated, diverse and inclusive teams. He is an active Advisor and Non-Executive Director.


Chris Gant - Veles Partner
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Lindsay Murdoch_Veles
Eddie Short - Veles Partner
Eddie Short - Veles Partner

Eddie Short

Eddie is an executive level digital and AI transformation leader who excels at working across the organisation and connecting the dots to deliver deep, lasting, and meaningful change.

With over 30 years' experience as a Global 1000 CIO/CDO and ‘Big4’ Consulting Partner, he helps clients to harness the power of people, AI, data, and technology to create digital businesses, target customers and improve operations across industries, ultimately delivering step change improvements in revenue and profit.

His last 5 years have been spent primarily partnering with CEOs of Private Equity backed businesses to deliver tremendous value, driving change in accelerated timeframes, enabled by Digital, AI, data and technology.


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