Core Team

Meet the team.

Perform Partners are a community of over 40 expert consultants supporting all our customers, get to know some of our Core Team below:

Technical Sales Lead

Stuart Tipton

Stuart brings over 20 years of technical experience in consulting and pre-sales. At Perform, he plays a key role in developing relationships, identifying opportunities and designing customer-centric solutions.

Senior Consultant

Dave King

Dave is experienced in large transformational change in a variety of sectors. He assists in the development of the in-house BA toolkit and delivering on client projects.

Principal Consultant

Chris Heeley

Chris brings a wealth of technical expertise and a strong track record across a wide range of industries. He plays a key role in building relationships and delivering the best outcomes for our clients, utilising a variety of delivery methodologies.

Financial Administrator

Alice Benton

Alice provides valuable support across our Finance function with a particular focus on our financial processes and financial reporting across the business.

Associate Consultant

Aristea Michelinaki

Aristea's multicultural experience provides a unique perspective to our Business Analysis function. She excels at fostering relationships and driving positive business change and improvement with a collaborative, solution-oriented mindset.

Associate Consultant

Deniz Akkaya Ozdemir

With 9 years of experience in researching and analysing business processes and a great passion for leveraging data and running projects, Deniz contributes to our Business Analysis practice by helping establish internal pathways for growth.

IT Services Engineer & Web Specialist

Tom Cutts

Leveraging his expertise in Web Development & IT, Tom provides valuable support to Marketing in website maintenance and development. He also collaborates with the IT Services Manager, aiding in project delivery and maintaining end-user computing.

Senior Marketing Executive

Ivelina Raykova

Ivelina has valuable experience in digital marketing, content and campaign management. She is strengthening our Marketing efforts through employer branding, brand awareness, and content creation.

Principal Consultant

Louise Crabtree

With a career orientating around change management from all aspects of an organisation, Louise supports implementing key strategies and promotes service improvement, helping our customers through their own journeys of change.

IT Services & Engineering Manager

John Summers

John brings a wealth of experience to support our growth plans. His focus is to create, maintain, and nurture a resilient tech stack, focusing on core perform systems and back-end services, and deliver a secure remote environment for the team.

Head of Commercial

Mark Kilner

Mark formulates and executes commercial strategies, manages client relationships, oversees sales and marketing, identifies new opportunities, and ensures top-quality change management solutions while contributing to our strategic direction.

Principal Consultant

Adeel Azam

Adeel brings a wealth of experience from Banking, Retail and Government sectors. His approach is at the core of what we encourage in Perform, crossing the tech boundaries with all key stakeholders and leading from the front.

Head of Consultancy

Steve Corcoran

Steve is building customer relationships, managing delivery teams, and sustaining a high level of quality service for our customers, with experience across multiple sectors.

Head of Business Operations and Strategy

David Rush

David aligns the organisations strategy to the initiatives of the Perform teams to ensure we collectively achieve the key business objectives and outcomes.

Principal Consultant

Mark Perrell

Mark is skilled in the art of Business Analysis and IT Delivery. He supports customer engagement focussing on the business analysis deliverables, while establishing our in-house paths towards growth and an expanding BA practice.

Principal Consultant

Chris Mills

An experienced change management professional with extensive knowledge of the full software development lifecycle, process improvement and change management. Chris delivers guidance and support on Business Analysis across key customer account.

Head of Marketing

Aida Walsh

Aida heads-up all marketing activity across Perform Partners, ensuring a consistent clear message is broadcast.

Business Operations and Strategy Analyst

Cloe Thornton

Cloe provides analytical expertise to develop controls and guidance on strategic objectives. She implements governance and reporting controls that highlight the health of the business across all areas.

Head of Finance

Josh Thornton

Josh provides financial controls across all of Perform Partners Business. He ensures we have the right financial processes in place, advises on finance strategic direction & provides the financial safeguards for Perform Partners to operate and grow.

Principal Consultant

Jon Cassere

By introducing great people, with the relevant skills, while embedding tried and trusted practices, Jon ensures sustainable bespoke solutions that stick.

Head of People & Culture

Kristy Dean

Kristy leads the Perform community on cultural best practices and provides expertise to shape our employee experience.

Co-Founder, Director

Shaun Walsh

Shaun, with 20+ years in business and technical change delivery, excels in helping clients navigate uncertainty and enhance performance. As a trained psychotherapist, he provides a holistic view on change and people.

Co-Founder, Director

Rob Smith

Rob provides oversight across our customer accounts. Championing continuous improvement, maintaining existing and creating new relationships to enable effective change. Rob is also passionate about our people, our brand and our guiding principles.

Co-Founder, Director

Paul Rhodes

Paul provides the management team guidance on strategy, finance and business forecasting. Along with the other Co-Founders, Paul ensures Perform Partners’ company culture puts its people and its customers at the heart of the business.