About Antony
Strategy & operations leader with 20 years’ experience driving growth and transformation in education, health and culture. I help organisations scale, adapt and deliver impact, from winning £300m contracts to leading turnarounds and building strategies for global universities and scale-ups.
My purpose is simple: to help build fuller lives by enabling organisations focused on human thriving to create, scale, adapt, and succeed.
I’ve worked across the UK, Europe and the Middle East with start-ups, scale-ups, global companies and non-profits. Along the way I’ve combined top-tier strategy credentials (McKinsey, INSEAD MBA, government policy unit) with executive team leadership in a £70m charity, and built a consulting practice advising CEOs, boards and founders.
Highlights include:
• Supporting global and regional EdTech scale-ups to reset strategy, revamp platforms and content, grow B2B and B2G revenue, quintuple user outcomes, and raise an 8-figure investment.
• Leading strategy, financial and operational planning for a global top-5 university’s largest ever capital project: a new academic and cultural centre.
• Winning £300m in UK Government contracts to deliver a national youth programme, outcompeting major private sector players.
• Masterminding the turnaround of a £70m turnover organisation from loss-making to profitability .
• Designing and delivering an organisational restructure for a pharmaceutical affiliate, completed in 50% of the originally scoped time, to prepare for a new generation of product launches.
• Writing UK Government welfare-to-work policy and leading pan-European research that reshaped how employers and educators support young people into the workforce.
• Helping a civic museums trust redefine its business model to achieve societal engagement goals in a challenging funding environment.
English
Native or bilingual
Japanese
Conversational
Can work on-site
Stroud (up to 50km), London (up to 10km), Bristol (up to 10km), Oxford (up to 10km), Cheltenham (up to 10km)
Experience
- Seasonin'Founder and DeveloperJanuary 2023 - Today (3 years and 5 months)• Built AI-powered meal planning app making nutritious, seasonal cooking accessible for time- and budget-constrained households.• Designed recipe-scanning and analysis tools, integrated shopping lists, and scalable cloud workflows (Bubble, Xano, Google Cloud, OpenAI).• Demonstrating commitment to healthy food systems innovation, linking technology and consumer behaviour change to better everyday nutrition.Advise and work with CEOs, boards and founders on growth strategy, transformation and operational improvement across education, health and culture. Selected projects:• Designed business model, financial and operational plan for a £250m+ capital project at a global top-5 university.• Reset strategy and operational plan for a global EdTech scale-up, aligning leadership team and raising an 8-figure investment.• Supported a pharmaceutical affiliate to restructure and implement new governance ahead of next-generation product launches (delivered in 50% of planned time).• Helped a civic museums trust reconfigure its business model to deliver ambitious societal goals under funding pressure.• Built automations, tools and scalable workflows to increase client productivity.
- Hawkerr Advisory & ImplementationDirectorEDUCATION AND E-LEARNINGJune 2020 - Today (6 years)United KingdomAdvise and work with CEOs, boards and founders on growth strategy, transformation and operational improvement across education, health and culture. Selected projects:• Designed business model, financial and operational plan for a £250m+ capital project at a global top-5 university.• Reset strategy and operational plan for a global EdTech scale-up, aligning leadership team and raising an 8-figure investment.• Supported a pharmaceutical affiliate to restructure and implement new governance ahead of next-generation product launches (delivered in 50% of planned time).• Helped a civic museums trust reconfigure its business model to deliver ambitious societal goals under funding pressure.• Built automations, tools and scalable workflows to increase client productivity.Advise and work with CEOs, boards and founders on growth strategy, transformation and operational improvement across education, health and culture. Selected projects: • Designed business model, financial and operational plan for a £250m+ capital project at a global top-5 university. • Reset strategy and operational plan for a global EdTech scale-up, aligning leadership team and raising an 8-figure investment. • Supported a pharmaceutical affiliate to restructure and implement new governance ahead of next-generation product launches (delivered in 50% of planned time). • Helped a civic museums trust reconfigure its business model to deliver ambitious societal goals under funding pressure. • Built automations, tools and scalable workflows to increase client productivity.
- The ChallengeStrategy and Business Development DirectorJanuary 2019 - January 2020 (1 year)London, UKCreated and led a 35-person, £2m budget directorate at a £70m national youth charity delivering programmes to 40,000+ young people annually. Direct report to CEO.• Won £300m in Government contracts for a national youth programme, outcompeting private sector rivals.• Parachuted into interim leadership of two national programmes, securing partner relationships (e.g. Starbucks, Nando's, GLA) and future of two operational programmes and their staff.• Invented an AppStore Top-100 Google-funded empathy game and piloted a social integration toolkit with local authorities.• Directed research influencing policy on social integration, including the British Integration Survey and intergenerational work with an APPG.
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Education
- MA (Oxford) Physics & PhilosophyUniversity of Oxford2003