Team

Big thinkers. Even bigger doers.

Matt Hamnett
Founder & CEO
A creative, commercial strategist, who works where the stakes are highest and challenges most acute; leading AI innovation across the markets we serve.
Katy Weeks
Managing Director
An expert in public service reform with deep expertise across central Government, health, and care; specialist in major deal pursuit.
Lillie Davey
Finance Director
Experienced commercial finance professional specialising in professional and digital services; supports commercially complex client engagements.
Latoyah Walters
Head of PMO
A strategic operations leader who turns ambition into delivery; driving operational excellence, governance, and large-scale transformation across complex, multi-market environments.
Dr Gemma Gronland
Principal Consultant
Gemma is an expert in qualification, curriculum, and assessment who leads Avencera’s work in Sub-Saharan Africa and teaches at UCL’s Institute of Education.
Matt Langelier
Principal Consultant
Transformation leader who builds the structures, disciplines, and momentum that turn complex change programmes into measurable results with a particular edge in digital and AI-enabled transformation.
Chris McKibbin
Principal Consultant
Chris is an expert in AI-led public service innovation who works with clients at the intersection of strategy, innovation, and commercial pursuit.
Reza Schwitzer
Principal Consultant
An expert in education policy, assessment, and wider public sector delivery, with over a decade of experience leading reform and complex programmes particularly across education systems.
Peter Walsh
Principal Consultant
Expert in public service reform across health and central government, working at the intersection of strategy and transformation.
Hilary Bretag
Senior Consultant
Hilary specialises in helping clients build and deliver compelling strategy, digital innovation, and transformation programmes.
Seth Mashate
A WORKS AI Product Manager
Seth has experience across product, AI and early-stage innovation. He has spent the last few years building data-driven and AI products in the healthcare space. His work sits at the intersection of technical problem solving and practical delivery.
Alex Morris
Senior Consultant
An expert in education and employment with deep experience leading policy and implementation work in central Government.
Dean Okereke
Senior Consultant
Healthcare transformation specialist with experience of combining strategy and hands-on delivery across public and private sector environments.
Declan Saviano
Senior Consultant
Declan specialises in education and AI adoption, working with schools, multi-academy trusts, and SEND institutions to design and deliver practical AI strategies that improve efficiency and student outcomes.
Tom Whitehead
Senior Consultant
Tom is an expert in the definition and delivery of high-value public service programmes and a member of NISTA's high risk programme review panel.
Matt Broadbent
Consultant
An operations specialist, Matt has substantial experience supporting strategic suppliers through capture, bid, and mobilisation of major contracts.
Alex Evans
Consultant
Alex specialises in major programme management, bringing substantial experience in transformation and programme strategy.
Mo Ibrahim
Consultant
A former Whitehall civil servant who specialises in public sector strategy, innovation, and the creation of sustainable social ventures.
Emily Searle
Consultant
Emily possesses the rare ability to combine sophisticated strategic thinking with precise, practical, operational insight.
Chris Summers
Consultant
A strategy and innovation specialist, Chris possesses substantial expertise in the adoption of AI and other emerging tech to transform outcomes.
Fatimah Toufiq
Consultant
Fatimah is a programme and risk managements specialist who specialises in supporting international education programmes to deliver real change.
Salome de Beauvoir Carey
Junior Consultant
Salome is an expert in service transformation, particularly in complex care environments. She uses her expertise in healthcare to support clients to design innovative systems that deliver improved public outcomes.
Jane Huber
Junior Consultant
A former NYC teacher who holds a master's in public policy from the London School of Economics; specialist in education and change.
Clarita Jeria
Junior Consultant
Lawyer and migration specialist with experience in non-profit leadership and communications. Clarita holds a Master of Public Administration and works at the intersection of community-driven change and innovative solutions.
Anjali Venkatesh
Junior Consultant
An expert in health and care policy and innovation, Anjali works with clients to design and deliver programmes which transform health outcomes.
Jules Kareld
Private Secretary
An experienced Private Secretary with eight years supporting senior leaders, now working closely with the CEO and MD at the heart of the business.
Careers
Avencera runs on people who live for tough challenges and high stakes.
We're thinkers who execute, and operators with imagination.
Director of Central Government
We’re hiring for a commercially driven leader to grow our Central Government practice, translating strategy into revenue and impact in high stakes environments.
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Future Colleague
We’re always interested in meeting people with the imagination, judgement, and execution smarts to help us deliver real change in the markets we serve.
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The truths we build on
Reinvention is the only route to real change.
In a world that’s more complex and connected than ever, incremental tweaks won’t cut it.
Technology won’t change the world. What humans do with it will.
AI is only as powerful as the judgement and imagination behind it.
The model fits the problem, not the other way around.
Real change happens when thoughtful, committed people collaborate to solve the challenge in front of them.
Our vision is real change that lasts.
We’re working toward a world where nations and organisations have the confidence, capability, and collaborators they need to make real change — and make it work.