Embridge Consulting
Senior Management Team
Meet Our Senior Management Team
Emma O’Brien
Emma founded Embridge Consulting in 2009. Emma leads the Board and Senior Management Teams, ensuring they are equipped with the tools needed to achieve our strategic objectives and deliver our services to the Embridge standards of excellence.
After starting the business from her front room with a staff of one (herself!), Emma has led Embridge into being a £multi-million company employing over 50 members of staff with a pool of over 100 Associates. Leading from the front every step of the way, Emma’s bold and perceptive understanding of people and technology means she continually explores new avenues of innovation and direction, supporting the SMT and the wider team to be creative, daring, and determined to achieve excellence and always be the best they can be. Emma’s compassion and determination to create a sustainable, assured, and reliable business which gives back to communities underpins the approach to all our practices. 2022 has seen Emma win a ‘Rising Star’ Award as part of the LDC’s Top 50 Most Ambitious Business Leaders programme.
Paul Gardner
Paul is our Chief Operating Officer responsible for our Professional Services, Managed Services, Digital Adoption and our Compliance teams, including the delivery of our ISO accreditations and implementing continuous improvements across the business. Paul focuses on our overall customer experience ensuring that we are all constantly driving and improving our industry leading approaches in delivering exceptional, best-in-class services and experiences for our customers and highly professional Embridge team members. Paul has ensured that customer focus is top priority throughout 15 years in Senior Management, delivering transformational change.
Jane Dobson
Jane is a Chartered Management Accountant and leads the Finance and Support Services functions at Embridge. Jane’s extensive experience of being on both sides of the digital user coin mean that she is always able to understand needs from all viewpoints. Pragmatic, methodical, knowledgeable and with fairness, intelligence, and understanding in all she does, Jane’s contribution to the leadership of the business ensures what we do and how we deliver make sense for our clients, for our contacts, and for our communities.
Faye O’Connell
Faye is our Chief Product Officer and responsible for defining our technology strategy. By partnering with leading technology vendors, and working closely with our consulting and ideation teams, Faye leads our development experts, sales operations and marketing team to push the boundaries of innovation for our customers.
Faye draws on over 15 years’ experience working within the IT industry, predominantly within the ERP technology arena. She’s always thinking ahead and her accuracy and logic balances perfectly with her creativity and knowledge. The result: our Product Development team constantly challenge the status quo to optimise business processes for our clients. Fresh, clever, and dependable, Faye and her team embody the qualities our technical development solutions deliver.
Dan Chilton
Dan is our Chief Experience Officer, managing all our consultants across Professional Services from functional experts, application consultants and Project managers. An adept resolution expert, he ensures that our projects are on time, on budget and delivered above industry standards.
Dan’s compassion, people-centricity, experience, and extensive capabilities mean he is able to discern and deliver best practice models and approaches, with method, logic, and perceptive understanding of what matters most in any digital evolution and programme of transformation. Smart and accurate, with a strong ethos of delivering excellence, Dan leads our Professional Services with an openness and transparency that builds and sustains our reputation as a trusted partner providing assurance of distinction in all our operations.
Dr Anthony Thomson
Anthony joined Embridge Consulting as Non-Executive Director in 2019, helping the company to create a strategic framework for growth, and providing valuable insights, acumen, and experience to the senior team.
Anthony, a creative and passionate senior executive, specialises in strategy, technology commercialisation, and leadership. He has a track record of success in formulating and executing business strategies around market development, partnership & collaboration, IPR, licencing and technology, holding numerous leadership roles across sectors, leading formation, growth and exit of several start-ups, most recently managing a successful exit to US tech giant, Qualcomm.
Anthony received his MSc and PhD from the University of Otago (NZ) and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. He holds an MBA from Cranfield.
Gerard Oates
Gerard joined Embridge Consulting as Non-Executive Director in 2021, adding meaningful insight to the Board with his knowledge, skills, and experience.
Following a Business Degree at The Management Centre, Bradford, Gerard qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PWC before moving to Grant Thornton to specialise in insolvency. After 2 years, he invested in a struggling manufacturing company to lead a successful turnaround, following which he sold his interest, and then invested in a specialist lighting manufacturer, Arcadia Products plc. Arcadia became a leading brand in over 30 countries, serving the niche market for aquarium and reptile hobbyists. In 2017 Gerard sold the business, but has continued to work as a financially orientated business consultant.
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