Anna joined Private Public as a Managing Consultant in April 2008, being promoted to Associate Director in September 2009. She has worked in a variety of public institutions, leading and managing strategic change.

Anna started work in the UK Public Sector at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in 2001, where she was responsible for establishing a programme office covering reporting, quality assurance and gateway reviews across the department, including training project and programme managers.

Most recently Anna has been working within the UK Education Sector, leading on the development and implementation of improved, risk-based models for quality assurance and assessment. Anna holds an MA in Entrepreneurship from Stockholm University School of Business as well as a BA in Political Science from Stockholm University. She is a PRINCE2 accredited Project Manager and an MSP accredited Programme Manager.

Jonathan started his career with Accenture, where he worked on Business Analysis, Solution Development and Benefits Realisation projects with clients including the Co-op and Unilever. In 2007 Jonathan was recruited to the Houses of Parliament as part of the ICT improvement and transformation team, with responsiblility for designing Parliament's Continuous Service Improvement programme supporting over 6000 internal customers.

Since joining Private Public in 2009, Jonathan has worked on a range of complex and challenging local government and health projects.  This has included engaging with a range of stakeholders across commissioning, community provider and acute NHS organisations, in addition to social care and third sector, to redefine intermediate care services.  Jon has also been involved in the development and commissioning of urgent care and out-of-hours services, and developing a single plan to respond to anticipated winter and swine flu pressures, praised by NHS London as being “the best example of multi agency escalation plans in London”.

Jonathan holds a Master's in Engineering from the University of Cambridge and is experienced in both PRINCE2 project management and ITIL Service Management.

Emily joined Private Public from Capgemini where she was involved in policy design, planning, piloting, evaluation and implementation working with organisations such as the Department for Children, Schools and Families, the QCDA and a number of Local Authorities. Prior to joining Capgemini Emily worked for the UN World Food Programme and as a Research and Policy Advisor in the UK, Italy and Japan with humanitarian non-governmental organisations and policy thinktanks.

Emily's core skills include business analysis, process design and project management, bringing to these strong team-working and communication skills. She has been engaged across numerous multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural environments, and in supporting government agencies delivering key policy objectives. Emily holds a Bachelor's Degree in Japanese Studies from Cambridge University and a Master's in International Public Policy from Osaka University, Japan.

Sam joined us in 2010 from Cap Gemini and is currently leading our analytics and business intelligence team. Sam's core skills include process design, implementation planning, policy review and programme/project management.

Since joining Private Public Sam has been involved in business analysis work as part of a number of our client projects, focussing on areas as diverse as productivity and efficiency reviews in local government, through to market and customer segmentation and market development strategies in education.

Sam went from his PhD at Cambridge to working on projects with a number of public sector organisations including the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency, Department for Education and Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. He holds a BA in Archaology and Anthropology from the University of Cambridge, where he graduated with a double first before staying on to complete his PhD.

Olga joined Private Public in 2009 from the University of Cambridge, where she was engaged as a researcher and completed her PhD. She has worked previously for the UN Economic Commission for Europe in Geneva, analysing issues of sustainable development and supporting environmental audits in Eastern Europe.

Since joining Olga has been delivering business analysis on a range of projects spanning from Local Government, Education, Health and Social Care to Technology and Innovation. Olga supported our clients with market analysis, customer relationship management, detailed development of business cases, strategic and marketing plans, quality assurance, and service transformation in complex environments. In addition to analytical skills, Olga brings in her practical experience of staff training delivery and effective stakeholder engagement.

Olga holds degrees in German, Economics and Development Studies in addition to her doctorate. She is a PRINCE2 accredited Project Manager.

Steve is an experienced manager familiar with developing and leading complex change initiatives across multiple health organisations. Steve has extensive knowledge of the challenges and opportunities facing health services, having spent 20 years working in Primary Care across a range of Acute and Primary Care Trusts, Strategic Health Authorities and GP Services.

Steve's past responsibilities have included co-ordinating local and regional responses to the National Programme for IT, Shared Services, World Class Commissioning, Practice-Based Commissioning and "Closer to Home" initiatives. Steve holds a Professional Diploma in Management and a Masters in Business Administration from the Open University Business School, and has undertaken Postgraduate studies in Health Informatics and Advanced Commissioning at the Universities of Teesside and Sunderland respectively. Steve is a PRINCE2 qualified Project Manager.

Kate Samuels is an Associate Consultant with Private Public, and has extensive experience of successfully delivering change projects within complex environments across the public sector.

She brings to PPL her experience of developing and implementing strategies, business models and organisational structures, as well as proven success at using these to deliver real efficiency savings across health and central government bodies.

Kate is an experienced facilitator and trainer, and is able to use her outstanding communication skills to engage with stakeholders and generate real energy and engagement to project delivery

Alistair is a highly experienced and versatile change manager who for the last 17 years has operated successfully as a senior consultant with organisations including Atos Origin, ICL and Oracle.

He specialises in managing business and organisational change and has worked in both private and public sector environments, in the UK and abroad. His past clients include the NHS, Vodafone, the Home Office, Burmah Castrol, BskyB, Gloucestershire County Council, and British Energy. Alistair worked with the Department of Health leading a national team to introduce new practices and technologies to the NHS. More recently, he has been working with Primary Care Trusts to improve the experiences of patients nearing the end of their lives.

An experienced group facilitator, Alistair holds a diploma in Process Consultation from the Tavistock Clinic, is a member of the British Computer Society and a Chartered IT Practitioner (MBCS, CITP).

Robin is a Managing Consultant with over 15 years experience working in public sector. At the Royal Borough of Kingston, Robin was responsible for all corporate ICT. His experiences there included supporting the business in implementing the Council ICT Strategy, delivering major infrastructure projects, rolling-out ITIL service management and leading on the technology elements of a high-profile Customer First programme.

Robin has been responsible for the delivery of over £3 million in savings through Business Process Reviews and personally led on the local government implementation of what has become a worldwide case study for the use of Microsoft CRM in the public sector.

Robin is currently involved in managing PPL project teams delivering Stakeholder Relationship Management and Information Management programmes for the NHS and local authorities. Robin holds a BA in Modern European Studies from Loughborough University of Technology and is a PRINCE2 certified project manager.

Paul Corrigan is a Senior Advisor to Private Public on Health. Paul Corrigan gained his first degree in social policy from the LSE in 1969, his PhD at Durham in 1974. He is currently an adjunct professor of public health at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

For the first 12 years of his working life Paul taught at Warwick University and the Polytechnic of North London where he taught, researched and wrote about inner city social policy and community development. In 1985 he left academic life and became a senior manager in London local government and in 1997 he started to work as a public services management consultant. From July 2001 Paul worked as a special adviser to Alan Milburn first and then John Reid, the then Secretary of States for Health. At the end of 2005 he became the senior health policy adviser to the Prime Minister Tony Blair. Over this six years he was instrumental in developing all the major themes of NHS reform not only in terms of policy levers buy also in developing capacity throughout the NHS to use those levers.

Between June 2007 and March 2009 he was the director of strategy and commissioning at the London Strategic Health Authority. Since then Paul has been working as a management consultant and an executive coach helping leaders create and develop step changes within their organisation.

Kerry is an experienced consultant with a history of assignments and various management positions in both the private and public sectors. While Head of Oracle UK's consulting services in the Public Sector he developed an interest in the challenges facing Social Care professionals. This led to him becoming a founder Director of OLM Systems Ltd. Since leaving OLM in 1995, much of his work has remained focussed on directly helping organisations in the Social Care, Health and the Not-For-Profit sectors harness the power of modern technologies and techniques to provide efficiencies, support workers and improve services.

Most recently, Kerry has been working with a number of local authorities helping managers and practitioners implement new processes, procedures and supporting systems. The work has spanned large and small authorities, inner city boroughs and rural counties, Adults' and Children's services, and system software from various specialist software suppliers (including Corelogic, Northgate and Liquidlogic). Kerry also advises extensively around the pressures of increased integration of health and social care services and the opportunities provided by Telehealth and Telecare.

Allan has over 30 years experience of building and running successful customer service operations in both the public and private sector, with experience spanning call centres, technical help desks and field delivery organisations. He has worked both as a line manager and as a consultant, from creating strategies for improving service to line managing a large field delivery function of over 2,000 technicians.

In the public sector Allan has worked at Director level in local government, raising performance standards of call centres and face-to-face operations through innovative application of new technologies such as voice automation and speech analytics. Allan has been involved in driving transformation through the entire service delivery chain, bringing significant cost savings through delivering services "right first time". His contributions to improving Customer Services and Service Delivery have been recognised in a number of national awards.

Tamsin Fulton is an Associate Consultant with over 10 years experience working in local and regional government. Through applying the principles of service design to meet the needs of both the customer and the business, Tamsin has created award-winning customer-centred services, software, systems and environments.

As a consultant at the Design Council Tamsin worked to develop, "Public Services by Design", a mentoring and capacity-building programme for Public Sector Managers; helping them to apply design principles in the commissioning of public services. The programme was designed and piloted with Local Authorities, 3rd Sector and Central Government departments and focused on areas of national priority including Preventative Social Care, Homelessness and Unemployment. Tamsin also established the Social Care working group with representation from Local Government, Social Care Institute of Excellence, Community & Voluntary Sector providers as well as Private Sector delivery partners. Her focus and experience in user-centred design have proved invaluable.

Vanessa brings to PPL a strong mix of sales, business development, communication and coaching experience. Her previous roles have involved the development of business strategies, marketing campaigns, product and proposal development, and product launches; in the UK and Sweden, and across technology areas including 3G mobile communications, digital television and information management.

Vanessa worked as a Team Manager at Sitel, a leading global providers of outsourced CRM, customer services and call centre solutions, before joining EuroInfoPool as their UK Business Development Director. Vanessa is a graduate of the Coaches Training Institute and has been responsible for organisational, team and individual development in the UK, US and Sweden, at clients such as Channel 4 and Rolls Royce. Vanessa has rolled out nationwide training programmes in customer service excellence, and holds a degree in Media, PR and Communication from Örebro University, Sweden.

Alasdair Semple is a developer and technical consultant with areas of experience ranging from web design, social media and massively multi-user virtual environments, to designing and maintaining core database and analysis infrastructure for private and private/public healthcare, in both the US and UK.

Alasdair manages both development work and provides cutting-edge architectural support on PPL technical projects, including in the Web and e-Commerce spaces. He holds Joint Honours in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh.

Richard Ashdown is a television producer and cameraman with more than ten years of experience in news, factual and corporate film-making. He has worked with companies and organisations across the private and public sectors, shooting films to maximise their media exposure and media-training their key spokespeople.

Richard's news credits include BBC News, Sky News, APTN and the Press Association. Richard's current work includes with international aid organisations, highlighting ongoing activities and challenges worldwide.

Natasha Nicholson is a chartered member of the CIPD and a practising senior HR executive. Natasha has worked with a number of UK and global organisations, in both small and large, new and established HR functions.

Natasha has extensive policy, process and systems experience, including support for areas such as Technology and Shared Services. She provides advice on a range of HR topics extending to organisational redesign, employee engagement, people, performance and talent management; both to PPL and in support of our client projects.

Peter joined Private Public’s health team as a Senior Consultant from KPMG, where he was part of the Infrastructure, Government and Healthcare practice. This included work with NHS Hammersmith & Fulham, NHS Barking & Dagenham, Hereford PCT and County Hospital, NHS Buckinghamshire and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust.

Peter has extensive experience of programme development and management within the health sector, most recently on transforming the cost improvement plans; pathway redesign around long term conditions such as COPD, Stroke and Heart Failure; and managing out-of-hospital projects with commissioners, GPs, community healthcare and adult social services. Peter has been responsible for full end-to-end care pathway development, activity and resource planning, implementing LEAN and designing and evaluating medical management models.

Peter began his career in healthcare with the NHS, including a number of years at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, before joining BUPA as a Strategic Relationship Manager and Senior Consultant, and then KPMG. He holds an MBA from Henley, a Post Graduate Diploma from the University of Surrey and a BA Hons from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama.

Simon Morys joined Private Public as an Associate Director after an illustrious career in the UK civil service spanning 8 different government departments, including the Department for Health, HM Treasury, HM Revenue Customs, and the Department for Business Innovation and Skills.

Simon held Board-level positions in the Cabinet Office and the Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills.  For 4 years he was based in Downing Street in the Private Office of the then Prime Minister Tony Blair, where he was involved in a number of major projects such as the strategic plan to reduce obesity. In the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit Simon led a major government review of the voluntary sector which led to improvements in charity law and regulation culminating in the Charity Act 2006 and to the introduction of Community Interest Companies.

Since leaving government Simon has worked as Director of Government Affairs for Tesco and most recently as an independent public affairs consultant with a former Health Minister and Special Advisor. Simon’s current focus includes strategies to improve delivery of preventative health services in the community, reducing admissions and readmissions and improving community-based care. Simon is a clear and strategic thinker who brings significant experience of translating policy objectives into reality.

Stephen joined Private Public in 2011 from Tribal Consulting’s strategy practice. His core skills include strategy development, customer insight and value for money analysis, which he has developed through his wide range of engagements across the public sector.

At Tribal, Stephen worked with the Department for Education to deliver strategic advice to innovative social care pilots, delivered analysis of customer needs to a range of local authorities, analysed the cost reduction strategies of 45 local authorities, and identified over £4m of efficiencies in local government and the Channel Islands. Before this, he interned with the Welsh Local Government Association, where he analysed child poverty reduction strategies across the Welsh public sector.

Stephen holds a Master’s in European Governance and Public Policy and a Bachelor’s in Politics and Modern History from Cardiff University, and is a PRINCE2 Practitioner.

Gurjit brings to Private Public over 10 years of experience as a Transformation Consultant.  Her background includes time at both CSC and Detica on large transformation programmes with blue-chip corporate clients, before focussing in on the public sector.

Gurjit has worked as a Transformation Manager with responsibility for the delivery of business transformation activities for London Primary Care and Mental Health Trusts, and as eSAP Lead on the NHS IT programme.  Outside of health, she has been involved within local government on communications and engagement activities for transformation partnerships; and most recently as a change and organisational design manager for the BBC, implementing new performance management and career development approaches for 2500 staff relocating to Salford Quays. 

Gurjit’s private sector experience includes time working on major e-commerce and FMCG projects.  In addition to her project management and business process skills, Gurjit is also a qualified MBTI practitioner and Executive Coach, and holds a BSc in Management Studies from Aston University.

Paul Cosens is a PRINCE2 project manager and MSP qualified programme manager with extensive experience of consultation, commissioning, policy development, business analysis (LEAN and Six Sigma) and research in local government, health and community sectors.

Paul’s recent experience has included work as a Statutory Partnerships Manager with the Richard House Hospice, developing respite and end of life care for children and young people; strategic planning for the Children’s Hospice Alliance for London; supporting Practice Based Commissioning with NHS Manchester; conducting comparative benchmarking around Safeguarding and Looked After Children for Bury Council; and managing Housing Policy Development with Birmingham City Council.  Paul has also worked as a commissioning manager across the NHS and local government in London, with a focus on strategic development, implementation planning, evaluation frameworks, and service specification, as well as management of associated major change projects. 

Paul started his career as a Project Delivery Manager with Marconi Communications in Liverpool and holds a BA in French, as well as an MA in Politics and an MSC in Information Systems from the University of Liverpool.  Paul is also a Master Practitioner and Licensed Trainer of NLP. 

Mark has over ten years experience of the delivery of social care related research and policy for the London boroughs, having previously been employed by the London Research Centre, the Greater London Authority and London Councils as a researcher and in project management roles.

Mark has been a key contributor to published research on a range of topics, notably residential and nursing care for adults, the housing needs of people with mental health needs and the funding of services for people with drug and alcohol problems. Mark has also played a major role in the delivery of several IT projects, including the London care placements website which helps the London boroughs to commission good quality services on behalf of vulnerable children and adults.

Most recently Mark was employed by London Councils to deliver the Data Share London project.  Data Share London was developed to promote good practice in public sector information sharing through a number of activities including the delivery of a training programme and a website of supporting materials.  Mark holds a BA in Politics & East Asian Studies from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne.

Robert is a Business Analyst with over 10 years of experience within Healthcare and IT.  Working in both the public and private sector, Roberts core skills are focussed around knowledge management, designing and implementing technologies that offer cost-effective solutions.

Robert has worked with organisations including City & Guilds, Hereford PCT, the Care Quality Commission and the Healthcare Commission.  At healthcare regulatory level, Robert has designed enterprise search surveillance systems that enable much quicker MSRA detection, which in turn led to the prevention of a number of related outbreaks.

Robert has also been involved working with the Ministry of Defence tri-forces, implementing policies for data collection and knowledge brokering around the commissioning of healthcare contracts.  Robert holds an MSc in Healthcare Informatics from the University of Central London (UCL) and BSc in Information Systems from the University of Derby.