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The MCA Team

MCA President 2008/9

 

Hugo Were is President of the MCA. He is a Senior Executive with two decades of experience with Accenture, the global consulting, technology and outsourcing company. He has led some of the largest and most challenging IT projects in the UK & Ireland. Hugo advises at Board level on strategic IT issues for financial institutions, utilities companies and the public sector and is a seasoned commentator in a wide variety of print and broadcast media.

Email: hugo.were@mca.org.uk

Tel: 020 7321 3990 

For further information on the appointment of Hugo Were as 2008/9 President of the MCA,

please click here to view the press release.

MCA Executive

   

Alan Leaman OBE is Chief Executive of the MCA. From 1988-93, he was Head of Office for the Rt Hon Paddy Ashdown MP, responsible for media relations, policy advice and acting as Chief Speech Writer. He then worked as Senior Associate Director at Hill and Knowlton (UK) Ltd, before becoming the Director of Corporate Affairs at the ABI. He worked at ABI for seven years from 2001 - 2008, where he established it in the national media as Britain’s leading trade association.

 

Email: alan.leaman@mca.org.uk

Tel: 020 7321 3990

 

   

Joy Burnford (née Hewgill) is Acting Operations Director of the MCA. Joy joined the MCA from PA Consulting Group where she was Marketing and Communications Manager for the strategy practice and, prior to that, Account Executive for three of PA's major clients. She has an MA in Management from St Andrews University and a passion for languages including Spanish and Russian.

 

Enquiries about Media relations, industry statistics and sponsorship opportunities.

 

Email: joy.burnford@mca.org.uk
Tel: 020 7321 3994  Mobile: 07968 762404

 

Lydia Waliszak is Membership Executive of the MCA. She has a degree in French and Hispanic studies from the University of Nottingham. Lydia joined the MCA from Compass Group where she worked in the Marketing Information department.

 

Enquiries about Membership Services, Young MCA, Future Leaders and the MCA Consultancy Referral Service


Email: lydia.waliszak@mca.org.uk

Tel: 020 7321 3998  

 

 

Jackie Arnett is Accounts Manager and Executive Assistant to Alan Leaman. She has a Business degree majoring in Marketing and a Diploma of Marketing. Jackie has experience working in Recruitment and IT Services companies in London.

Enquiries about accounts, MCA governance, Council Dinner and Annual Reception.

 

Email: jackie.arnett@mca.org.uk

Tel: 020 7321 3996

 

Stephanie Mitchell is Marketing Assistant at the MCA. She has a BSc in Communication and Media Studies from Loughborough University. She joined the MCA from companies within the ABF Group; working in Planning at Silver Spoon, and Training and Events at ABN.

Enquiries about events and interest groups including VIP Lunches, Masterclasses, MCA newsletter, website and marketing materials.

 

Email: stephanie.mitchell@mca.org.uk

Tel: 020 7321 3995

 

   

Fiona Czerniawska is Director of the MCA's Think Tank and the founder of Arkimeda, a firm specialising in researching and consulting to the consulting industry. Fiona is also a programme director at London Business School's Centre for Management Development. Her publications include: Management Consulting in Practice, Management Consultancy in the 21st Century, The UK Consulting Industry 2003/4, and The Intelligent Client: Managing your Management Consultant.

Enquiries about MCA's Think Tank and research
Email:
fiona.czerniawska@mca.org.uk

   

Sarah Taylor manages MCA’s relationships with sponsors. She has over twenty years’ business-to-business sales and marketing communications experience, of which the last ten have been in the consultancy sector. She has worked for consulting firms Partners for Change (now Morse) and Arkimeda as well as a number of trade associations and professional bodies. She has a BA in Modern Languages.

 

Enquiries about membership, non-member recruitment, sponsorship and advertising

 

Email: sarah.taylor@mca.org.uk

Tel: 07772 430999

   

Zoe Stumpf is Strategic Project Manager of the MCA. She joined the MCA from Atos Consulting, where she was Marketing and Internal Communications Manager. Zoe previously worked as a management consultant in the Financial Services practice of KPMG, specialising in merger and acquisition, performance improvement and change management. She has a BA in modern languages.

 

Enquiries about strategy review and the MCA's 3 year plan from November 08.

 

Email: zoe.stumpf@mca.org.uk

Tel: 020 7321 3992

 

Uzma Mohamedali is interim Marketing Manager at the MCA.  She specialises in professional services communications and worked at Deloitte for two years engaging its 10,000 staff with strategy and culture change programmes. Uzma has a BSc Hons in Speech Communication from UCL and is CIM qualified.

 

Enquiries about MCA Consultant of the Year Awards 2008; Management Awards 2009

 

Email: uzma.mohamedali@mca.org.uk

Tel: 020 7321 3993

 

 

David Pippett is the MCA's Media Relations Consultant. David has managed the MCA media relations campaign since 2002. He has over 10 year’s experience of working within the public relations and marketing industry. His formative years were spent working for a Top 50 PR agency in London, managing financial services and business to business client campaigns for brands such as Norwich Union, Royal Bank of Scotland and Fortis Bank. He has also managed media campaigns for a number of other Trade Associations. David is based in Bath and has a BA in Public Relations and Media. 

Email: david@dwppublicrelations.co.uk

Tel: 01225 833745

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Vice Presidents

   

Nick Owen - Vice-President of MCA 2008/9

Nick Owen is a Senior Partner at Deloitte and leads Consumer, Commercial and Industrial consulting industry team. He has over 20 years experience predominately in the private sectors working with, telecommunications, Lifesciences, energy and professional services organisations on a range of strategic and operational transformation programmes.

 

Nick started his career in Arthur Andersen and he became the Managing Partner of Andersen Business consulting in 2000. In 2002 he joined Deloitte and has served on the UK Executive and the Consulting leadership team since then.

 

 

David Cox - Vice-President of MCA 2008/9

David Cox is Managing Director of Mott MacDonald’s managing and consultancy business.  With over twenty years experience in consulting, David has worked across a wide spectrum of public and private sector clients.

 

David’s business has grown from assuring the delivery of major programmes to delivering pragmatic solutions to strategic and operational change programmes.

 

David’s management consultancy business is backed by the global spread of Mott MacDonald’s management, engineering and development consultancy.

 

 

 

Paul Winter - Vice-President of MCA 2008/9

 

Paul is a Vice President of the Management Consultancies’ Association, Chief Executive of MCA member Corpra and a visiting lecturer in strategic management at Oxford Brookes University.

 

After holding a number of management and leadership positions in property, venture capital and B2B services, Paul founded and developed the concept and business model of Corpra. 


Paul’s key area of work is the development of clear implementable strategies for business leaders. He recently completed a major research assignment on corporate strategy and real estate alignment at the Cranfield University Advance Manage Research Centre for which he was awarded his Masters Degree.

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Members of the MCA General Policy Committee

Hugo Were - Chairman             David Remmer 
Accenture  BT Global Consulting 
   
Sean Wells  Mark Campbell 
Atos Consulting Ltd Mouchel 
   
Paul Winter  David Cox 
Corpra  Mott MacDonald
   
Nick Owen  Pat Newberry 
Deloitte  PricewaterhouseCoopers 
   
Tim Lloyd  Steve Watmough 
Alsbridge  Xantus Consulting 
   
Jan Gower  Brian Lever 
IBM  CSC 

 

 

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Members of the Young MCA Steering Committee

Ricky Kothari  - Chairman

Khounish Dewan

PA Consulting  

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

   
Richard Samuel - Vice Chairman         Gillian Coote
Hitachi Consulting   BT Global Consulting
   

Lydia Waliszak 

Naresh Mistry
MCA    Atkins Management Consultants
   
Erfaan Ayub Andrew Clifford
Fujitsu Services  Atos Consulting Ltd
   
Hayley-Beth Peters Julianne Ezra

KPMG 

Mott MacDonald
   
Kapil Handa  
Accenture