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.
Dr Gemma Gronland
Director of Learning and Development
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.
Meghan Stephens
Director of Growth
Meghan leads Avencera’s brand and growth strategy, and applies commercial acumen to market-facing challenges.
Lillie Davey
Finance Director
Experienced commercial finance professional specialising in professional and digital services; supports commercially complex client engagements.
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.
Dr Joseph Middleton
Principal Consultant
Joseph is a practising doctor with experience redesigning acute services, delivering national diagnostics transformation, and shaping digital and organisational reform across UK healthcare.
Neil Barnes
Principal Consultant
Neil is a former HM Treasury economist who specialises in regulatory reform and the preparation of best practice 'five cases' business cases.
Hilary Bretag
Senior Consultant
Hilary specialises in helping clients build and deliver compelling strategy, digital innovation, and transformation programmes.
Alex Morris
Senior Consultant
An expert in education and employment with deep experience leading policy and implementation work in central Government.
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.
Jaime Sims
Senior Consultant
A specialist in the mobilisation and delivery of high-stakes, high-value, digitally-enabled transformation and operations programmes.
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.
Fatimah Toufiq
Consultant
Fatimah is a programme and risk managements specialist who specialises in supporting international education programmes to deliver real change.
Matt Broadbent
Junior Consultant
An operations specialist, Matt has substantial experience supporting strategic suppliers through capture, bid, and mobilisation of major contracts.
Alex Evans
Junior Consultant
Alex specialises in strategy and AI innovation. He works with clients to reimagine what they do, and how they do it, to succeed in the AI era.
Jane Huber
Junior Consultant
A former teacher in New York City who holds a master's in public policy from the London School of Economics; specialist in education and change.
Chris Summers
Junior Consultant
A strategy and innovation specialist, Chris possesses substantial expertise in the adoption of AI and other emerging tech to transform outcomes.
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.
Careers
Avencera runs on people who live for tough challenges and high stakes.
We're thinkers who execute, and operators with imagination.
We're thinkers who execute, and operators with imagination.
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.
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.