Our Associates
We often draw on specialist skills and support from other organisations and experienced independent associate consultants. All of our associates share Adapta’s values and have deep specialisms that they can bring to provide high-quality support to an engagement where appropriate.
You can find out more about our associates below.
Our lead specialist associates

Iain
Principal Associate Consultant
Iain specialises in information systems solutions for charities and other not-for-profit organisations. He has more than 30 years’ experience in the industry, having started in a software...

Jo
Data Strategy Associate
Jo has worked with data in the not-for-profit sector for over 25 years and has been an independent consultant supporting organisations with data strategy, data governance and data quality since 2018...

Liz
AI Safety and Data Protection Associate
Liz Curry began her career working in theatre publicity, spending 10 years at the National Theatre in various marketing roles. She worked briefly with the UN on the first Mozambican General Election and travelled...

Louis
User Insight and Innovation Associate
Louis is an Innovation Strategist with a passion for navigating complexity and driving tangible outcomes He brings over a decade of experience in the non-profit sector, working at organisations such as Great...

Matt
Smaller Charities Associate
Matt has over 20 years experience working with information technology, initially within university administration and then for a range of clients providing IT solutions in the small business and not-for-profit sectors...

Philip
Associate Principal Consultant
Philip is a senior IT professional, experienced in leadership positions such as IT Director / Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Technology Officer (CTO). He has a particular focus on...

Sian
Digital Marketing Associate
With a passion for driving business growth and fostering strategic success, Sian is a seasoned professional renowned for strategic planning and marketing strategy, and has a particular passion for data, systems...

Suzy
Change Delivery Associate
Suzy is a supportive, reliable, innovative and versatile project management and change management professional with strategic and operational experience in both private and not-for-profit sectors. She has...
Our broader associate team

Alice
Solutions Testing Associate
Alice is an independent project and change management consultant. Alice works with and assists charities and their teams to implement change; particularly around processes...

Andrew
Technology Strategy and Operations Associate
Andrew has 30 years' experience in senior technology roles and has spent the last 15 years driving change and delivering strategies at some of the largest and best-known names in the not-for-profit sector including...

Angelina
IT Service Management Associate
Angelina is passionate about the third sector and has actively supported and volunteered for charities such as Marie Curie, DogsTrust, HARP Southend, I CAN, Alzheimer's Society and Pancreatic Cancer UK. As...

Beverley
Data Protection Associate
Beverley has worked in the data protection arena for over 20 years, mainly employed in the charity / not-for-profit and public sectors. Until May 2023 she was the DPO for Crisis UK (the national homeless Charity)...

David
Finance Solutions Associate
David is a qualified accountant and Agile project management practitioner, bringing practical, commercial, challenging and effective thinking to projects he has worked on...

Deji
Programme Management Associate
Deji is a highly qualified management consultant with 8+ years' experience in leading and supporting on large-scale transformation programmes across central and local government. His key areas of specialism include...

Duncan
Fundraising Databases Associate
Duncan has been helping not for profits to make the most from their investment in database systems, since he first started working as an independent consultant in 2012. Originally specialising in...

George
Finance, Operations and IT Associate
George is an experienced digital executive, with a background in consultancy, IT project management (PRINCE2), operations and finance. He has had direct responsibility for leading several business...

James
Digital Marketing and CRM Associate
James specialises in helping our clients build highly effective marketing strategies and successful marketing operation decisions. Including brand positioning, the marketing technology stack...

James
Fractional CIO and IT Strategy Associate
James is a senior IT executive focusing on the development and implementation of innovative IT strategies in support of organisational growth and change. He spent 20 years in large corporates such as...

Jo
IT Training and Processes Associate
Jo has over 25 years’ experience in IT training and implementation in both the commercial and not-for-profit sectors. Jo specialises in helping organisations realise the full potential of their digital tools and assets and...

John
Enterprise Architecture Associate
Chartered IT Professional and TOGAF 9.1 Certified Enterprise Architect with an MBA in Technology Management, BSc (Hons) in Computer Science and over 20 years’ experience of providing the “glue” that...

Jon
Fractional CIO and Technology Operations Associate
Jon is a senior technology leader with 20 years managing teams in some of the UK's largest and best known non-profits and arts organisations. As Director of IT at the National Theatre...

Jon
Fractional CIO Associate
Jon is a dynamic technology leader with over 15 years of experience in scaling operations and delivering large-scale, complex digital transformation projects. Combining deep technical expertise with strategic...

Katharine
CRM and Digital Associate
Katharine is an experienced digital strategist focused on empowering non-profits to maximise the value of their digital channels and systems. With a unique blend of expertise in fundraising, marketing, communications...

Manoj
Cyber Security Associate
Manoj is focussed on helping all companies of all sizes in being more cyber security prepared. Recognising that cyber security costs can spiral, Manoj specialises to supporting companies understand...

Mark
Data Protection and Information Security Associate
Mark began his career in stage and theatre management, working in commercial and subsidised theatre. He held a number of roles in the arts funding sector including Head of National Touring and then Director of...

Paul
Business Intelligence Associate
With an IT career spanning thirty years, including five years managing a network for the MoD, and more than twenty years as Technical Director of an award-winning Managed Service Provider...

Philippa
HR Associate
Philippa has a wealth of consultancy experience both in the private and not-for-profit sectors. She specialises in HR specifically carrying out HR audits; return on investment (ROI) of, for example...

Ruth
Microsoft 365 and Knowledge Management Associate
Ruth is an experienced Microsoft Certified Trainer and a Teamwork specialist who has been working on implementing collaboration technologies to help clients with adoption and roll out of new...

Steve
IT Security, Risk & Compliance Associate
Steve began his interest in IT when he gate-crashed a school computer class, where he found it interesting so he signed up to the O level course Learning to program using punched paper-tape! After repeating the...
Bertie
Digital Fundraising Associate
Bertie helps organisations of all sizes develop their online presence, transform their digital culture, raise money online, improve engagement with their audiences, select the right technology...