Personal enough to care

We are seasoned professionals who are passionate about delivering change, fast and effectively.

Agile enough to deliver

We bring decades of cross-industry experience delivering successful business change, from strategy definition to implementation covering any type of change: process, people, technology, infrastructure.

Meet
our team

and their bitmojis

John Potamianos

John Potamianos

Director

  • BSc, MSc, MBA, FIC, CMP

A Change and Programme Management professional with over 20 years’ international experience in business transformation, from strategy definition to implementation and covering all dimensions of change: sourcing, contracts, policy, process, IT, infrastructure, behavioural, organisational.

John is a leader and decision-maker with operational and recovery experience, who brings people together, builds trust and delivers successful outcomes. A Fellow of the Institute of Consulting, a Change Management Practitioner, and MBA qualified, John has delivered change and integration of customer facing, commercial, operational and back office capabilities in various organisations as well as demergers and consolidations with cost base over £4bn p.a.

Abbas Shamshudin

Abbas Shamshudin

Accounts Executive

  • BEng

A natural problem solver with strong analytical expertise and professional PMO, financial analysis and process mapping experience on a major IT Transformation project for a leading UK Airline.

Abbas is an Engineering and Management graduate from the University of Exeter, has successfully completed Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Training and strives to add value in all stages of a project lifecycle.

Suzi Olsen

Suzi Olsen

Marketing Consultant

  • BA Hons

Director and Co-owner of marketing agency Capella Synergy, Suzi leads the strategic direction of Acceler8’s marketing strategy. With extensive experience working for both large corporations and small businesses, Suzi understands the need for personalised, bespoke marketing campaigns to support a wide range of service-led organisations.

Capella Synergy has supported businesses with marketing and PR campaigns at various stages of those businesses’ lifecycles; from brand/product marketplace launches, to enhancing the strategy, brand awareness, and lead generation of established brands.

Suzi is seen as a valued partner, who adopts a friendly and flexible approach, proactively taking the time to gain a firm understanding of our business needs and to deliver our marketing objectives.

Dean Isbitt

Dean Isbitt

Associate Senior PMO Manager

  • APMP, Prince2, MSPP, P3O, MoP

A highly driven and goal focussed senior PMO manager. Dean has over 20 years experience both as a Business and IT Project Manager through building and leading highly effective PMOs spanning Retail Banking, Insurance, Consultancy, Property and Airline industries. Expert in Project Management methodologies gained over numerous programmes including Transformation, Integration and Regulatory, Infrastructure and Business Change with annual budgets in excess of £300 million.

Quality assures projects, programmes and portfolios by implementing and embedding strong, tailored governance and controls, removes process blockers, and provides effective oversight as well as insightful MI to senior and executive stakeholders.

An excellent problem solver, logical, highly organised and cuts through complexity in a systematic way to optimise outcomes. With integrity, professionalism and excellent communication skills, Dean constantly builds and maintains effective working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders at all levels.

James Open

James Open

Associate Change and ORAT Manager

  • BSc, APMP, Prince 2, MSPP

A Strategic Change, Operational Readiness, Transition and Cutover professional with a successful delivery track record and over 10 years experience predominantly in aviation and travel management.

Successfully led high profile complex transitions of Airline terminal moves, implementation of innovative technology, office relocations, airline mergers, new route launches, commercial system changes, new alliance memberships, business enhancement and IT network projects in Europe, commissioning of innovative new electric pushback equipment, and IT Service Management. These strategic projects have been delivered in environments of cross directorate and external complexity through a collaborative approach across multiple functions and organisations.

Louis Pisacane

Louis Pisacane

Associate Service Design and Delivery Manager

  • PMP, ITIL

A highly versatile Service Manager with extensive Service Management, Service Design and Service Introduction experience. This experience spans across multiple industries and involving changes in applications, data, process and suppliers. Louis has worked with many blue-chip companies delivering Service Improvement and Transformation both within the UK and internationally across India, EMEA and South America.

An excellent communicator who sees and understands the differing perspectives of stakeholders across all levels of an organisation thereby ensuring the right course of action is taken to ensure buy-in and support. Bridges operational and transformation needs to define and transition services, coaching and supporting people through change to ensure the success of programme deliveries.

Neil Coleman

Neil Coleman

Associate Senior Project and Delivery Consultant

  • Prince2, ITIL

A results-oriented Project Management and Delivery professional with over 20 years of experience on large scale projects including infrastructure, outsourcing, vendor transitions and organisational design and change. Neil has cross-sector experience having worked in Publishing, Investment Banking, Media, Retail and Aviation.

An excellent leader of teams who finds the way to achieve consensus. Neil has a joined-up approach with the experience of managing teams spanning Project Planning and Delivery, IT Operations, Application Management, Service Delivery and Business Relationship Management.

Swapnil Ruparelia

Swapnil Ruparelia

Associate Senior Testing and Delivery Consultant

  • BSc, MSc, Prince2, ISEB/ISTQB

An outcome-focused, commercially astute delivery and testing professional with over twenty years’ experience. A Focused Delivery, Testing practitioner and Scrum Master with demonstrable proficiency in managing across the full delivery and testing life-cycle.  Swapnil has a proven track record of consistently delivering high-profile projects for corporate clients.

An able manager of teams, mentoring and coaching to create productive teams across multiple locations within a business-as-usual or project environment. A leader who cultivates a spirit of collaborative working within both internal and third-party teams. Excels in forging and managing stakeholder relationships, able to quickly interpret and articulate business issues, create plans, achieve consensus with stakeholders and execute delivery within agreed timescales and financial awareness/budget and regulatory/compliance requirements. Has a broad knowledge across all information technology disciplines combined with a talent for transitioning the most complex requirements into outcomes that add value and stability to any business.

How we are
different

The way we work is dictated by our core values which are:

Integrity and Trust

Integrity and Trust

We believe in doing what is best for you and work in a way that suits your business.

Honest and Transparent

Honest and Transparent

We make honest assessments and are open and proactive about issues and risks.

Fast and Result Oriented

Fast and Result Oriented

We are focused on achieving successful outcomes while making things happen fast.

Collaboration and Respect

Collaboration and Respect

We put ourselves in your shoes, work with you and upskill your teams.

Delivery and Ownership

Delivery and Ownership

We take ownership, deliver on our promise and help you realise the benefits.

Lead by example

Lead by example

We say what we do and do as we say.