People

Founded in 1929, Harold Whitehead & Partners is the longest established, independent, professional management consulting firm in the United Kingdom and was the first consulting group to gain the Queen's Award to Industry.

Naturally, the profile of clients and consulting activities has changed over those years. However, a few things remain constant such as our commitment to harnessing expertise, achieving client focussed results and applying acknowledged standards (we are all members of the Institute of Consulting, for example and strictly adhere to its code of practice). As Harold Whitehead himself put it in 1923, focused professionalism and the positive qualities of "service and constructive suggestion" still hold true for us today.

Like Harold Whitehead, we are practical, straight-talking and can demonstrate the value we add to our clients. Indeed, one of his principles was the desire to always ensure that a client was left feeling that they would ask him back. This legacy is still valued by us and encapsulates our primary goal as a consulting business.

Another of his principles that has stood us in good stead is to collaborate and to never pre-judge or assume. We know that every business is unique and that the decisions they face are specific to that particular situation. This precept is also central to our approach and, based on it we have delivered benefits worth many millions within both private and public sectors and provided annual savings many times in excess of project costs.

Mike Aikens

Mike Aikens, has spent his entire career working in consulting and operations. Initially, he held a number of operations management positions for Scottish and Newcastle plc in manufacturing, warehousing and both primary and secondary distribution activities before joining Harold Whitehead & Partners in 1993.

Mike has worked internationally across a broad range of sectors at both strategic and operational level, he is a graduate of Heriot Watt University and holds an MBA from The University of Warwick Business School.

Email: maikens@hwp.co.uk

Jerry Maddox

Jerry Maddox, first joined Harold Whitehead & Partners in 1995 and, following a brief stint at PricewaterhouseCoopers, rejoined in 2002. He has worked across a broad range of sectors at both a strategic and operational level.

Prior to joining Harold Whitehead & Partners, he was the head of operations for a leading London-based security company responsible for service delivery and account management. Before that Jerry spent five years as a commissioned officer in the British Army, serving in Europe and the Far East. Jerry is a graduate of Loughborough University and holds an MBA from Cranfield School of Management.

Email: jmaddox@hwp.co.uk

Mike Jupp

Mike Jupp, started with with Harold Whitehead & Partners in 2001, following two years with Miebach Consulting.

Mike has delivered and implemented numerous strategic, software and operational projects for clients across Media, Wholesaling, Beverage, Distribution and Retail.

Prior to consulting, Mike worked in the automotive sector for Vauxhall Motors in a number of project management roles. Mike is a graduate of Aston University.

Stephen Sloan

Stephen Sloan, before joining Harold Whitehead & Partners, was a senior manager in PricewaterhouseCoopers and worked in financial services.

He has a 20 year management and consulting career pursued internationally across several sectors including financial services; retail and leisure and manufacturing.

Steve is a graduate of Queens University Belfast and has post graduate degrees from Aston University in Birmingham and Manchester University.

Philip MendonÇa

Philip Mendonça is a Chartered Accountant with substantial financial management experience across companies of all sizes and in a wide variety of sectors.

Having qualified at KPMG, he spent 4 years at an acquisitive conglomerate, before joining Ernst & Young Management Consultants. A key strength is the ability to 'make things happen' whilst delivering on time and to budget.

Philip has worked with Harold Whitehead & Partners in a number of areas including assessment and enhancement of controls, and customer and channel profitability.

James Lindsay

James Lindsay has spent his career working in operations and consulting. He specialises in
business continuity planning, project and change management. He has led projects and managed
large PMOs in FMCG, FS and Government environments internationally.

Prior to Harold Whitehead & Partners James worked as a consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers, which followed six years as a commissioned officer in the British Army.

James is a graduate of UMIST.