Andrew Newman started his career with the GKN Group where he gained experience in marketing, public relations, and sales. He progressed into international marketing and sales with Wilmot Breeden, concentrating on components for the automotive industry. Moving to Staveley Industries’ subsidiary, Salter, Andrew had executive appointments in sales, marketing, product development, business strategy, and new venture management.

He became a business consultant with PA in Birmingham and was one of the founders of Sterling in 1987. His assignments include business strategy development, organisation planning, marketing, sales, business performance improvement, and purchasing. Andrew is a director of Sterling and a non-executive director of B E Wedge Holdings Limited.

Graham Sargent

Graham Sargent is a chartered accountant. He joined Jaguar plc in 1984 as part of the government privatisation initiative and, in 1991, was headhunted for rail industry privatisation. He became Finance Director of Amey Railways Limited in, leaving to become an interim manager in 1996. He had a number of senior assignments with “blue chip” groups including Siemens, Alstom, Marconi and Milk Marque.

Graham is an accomplished project manager and trouble-shooter specialising in process re-engineering and change management. He is an EFQM assessor for the Midlands Excellence Awards and a non executive director of Mercian Housing Association Limited where he is Vice Chairman .

Andrea Feenan

Andrea Feenan is a qualified buyer and has been working with Sterling since February 2000, both as an employed consultant and more recently as an associate. She is a specialist purchasing consultant in Sterling's supply chain management practice. Her work has included a two year period as a contract buyer with an NHS Trust, and an interim procurement role with a housing association. She has also worked on Best Value assignments.

David Hawkins

David Hawkins began his career began in the construction industry designing and installing industrial and process projects worldwide. In subsequent years he handled the engineering, procurement, and installation of major facilities in the metalworking and automotive component sectors, in Poland and the USA, in due course becoming projects director for GKN Projects. Since 1987 he has been director and principal consultant of Redmayne Projects Limited, an engineering and management services company.

Ian Clarke

Ian Clarke was Spirent plc's Group Purchasing Manager, responsible for the development of procurement strategy, introducing global sourcing initiatives, and developing best practice purchasing techniques within the Group. He became a consultant on leaving Spirent. He has worked with a range of NHS Trusts and local authorities both as a consultant and mentor, and as an interim purchasing manager handling contracts valued at up to £20 million.

Ian Redington

Ian Redington spent some 30 years in the food industry with responsibilities in commodity trading, marketing, operations, and human resources. His last appointment in the industry was as Commercial and Human Resources Director in Milk Marque. In 2001 he became a consultant specialising in strategy and human resources. His clients encompass a range of industries.

John Evans

John Evans began his career in the pharmaceutical industry in 1970. He became Director of Pharmaceutical Marketing, Europe, with the Warner Lambert Corporation at their corporate headquarters in New Jersey before taking on lead responsibilities in Europe. Parke-Davis then recruited John on as Marketing and Sales Director, UK/Ireland/Scandinavia, which in turn led to his becoming Director of Strategic Planning, UK/Ireland/Scandinavia. Since 1999 he has been an independent pharmaceutical management consultant, carrying out strategy assignments, promotions and communications projects, market research, and new venture development.

Pamela Powell

Pamela Powell qualified as a chartered accountant in 1986. Her principal areas of expertise include analysis of financial statements, finance for non-financial managers, international comparisons in financial reporting, and technical updates in financial reporting and auditing for qualified accountants. She has increasingly focussed on post qualification training and training for non-accountants.

Peter Parry

Peter Parry started his career in the textile industry. He joined PA Management Consultants to specialise in marketing and business planning. He moved to NFC (now Exel Logistics) where he was responsible for marketing. This included the procurement of vehicles for the truck rental and contract hire fleets. Moving to Sterling Consulting Group he specialised in purchasing and supply chain management. Now an associate of Sterling he works for a wide range of clients in the public, private, and charity sectors.

Philip Sweeney

Philip Sweeney began his working life in the building materials industry, where he progressed rapidly into purchasing and materials management. He became a management consultant concerned with both sides of supply relationships, materials management, and management information systems, and undertaking interim management roles with supply chain and operational responsibilities at board level. He now specialises in sourcing and supplier management strategy development

Roger Bonfield

is a Human Resource professional primarily concerned with the development of individuals and teams. Following personnel roles with Legal & General Assurance Society and British Ship Research Association (latterly BMT), Roger joined Bradford & Bingley PLC where be became Head of HR Development. He set up his own consultancy working as an HR Consultant and MBTI and the Hogan Personality Suite practitioner.

Tony Smith

Tony Smith is a seasoned marketing consultant with sixteen years’ line management experience. He has prepared and implemented a number of sales and marketing strategies in both the public and private sectors. He has carried out a range of assignments for various NHS Trusts in Wales and has developed and implemented customer satisfaction measurement programmes in a ranger of industries. Tony is a marketing trainer and has lectured for the University of Wales on the MBA course.

Richard Dobson

Richard Dobson has a wealth of experience in industry. Before becoming a consultant he was Logistics Director with Golden Wonder, a major supplier of snack foods to the UK food retail industry. His key disciplines are production engineering, materials control, and logistics. He has a comprehensive knowledge of information systems applications within the supply chain. He is also an expert on business process analysis and distribution design.

Les Mosco

Les Mosco is a high level procurement strategy specialist who has held senior positions at British Coal, The Scottish Office, NatWest Group, Railtrack and Network Rail before becoming a consultant. He has had 25 years experience of outsourcing, purchasing, procurement, commercial supply chain, materials and inventory. He is a past National President of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply.

Richard Hannah

Richard Hannah spent much of his career with Metal Box where he progressed through roles in O & M, work study, simulation, PC implementation, and SCADA to become Special Projects Manager with Carnaud Metal Box. He then moved into consultancy with Business Solutions (formerly SWAN software). He is now an independent IT consultant. His work includes training, managing data transfer into and from systems, and helping clients implement manufacturing software.