Doug is founder and leader of Atlantic. He has led Atlantic’s thinking in the area of Health and Social Care. Prior to forming Atlantic, he held leadership roles within Ernst & Young, AT&T, United Airlines and Booz, Allen on both sides of the ocean.

When not consulting on transformational change in local government around services ranging from Social Care and Housing to the Public Realm, Doug can be found facilitating leadership development courses (e.g. negotiation and deal making) in Cambridge and business problem solving workshops around the world.

He has personally designed and facilitated Atlantic’s workshop series on Outcome Based Commissioning.

David has UK and international experience built on a career in the Telecommunications sector (COLT and BT) covering strategy and change for an organisation of 41,000 people with achievements in sales operations, call centres, field service.  For BT, he managed significant business improvements in revenue growth, customer satisfaction and cost reduction.  In the last fifteen years, as co-founder  of Atlantic, he as applied this knowledge to Local Government and Health, assising clients in managing tight budgets while maintaining and improving personal outcomes.  In particular, he has delivered assignements in:

• Outcome Based Commissioning
• Local Authority Trading Companies (interim Chief Executive)
• Efficiency programmes

David is a delivery-focused Programme Director with a broad range of business experience, including holding the role of Chief Information Officer of Royal Mail’s Innovation Division.  David’s recent focus has been on identity, data access management and the cross-sector use of personal data in British business.  David led the delivery of the Personal Data & Trust programme at the Digital Catapult, driving specific focus on the Health and Social Care sectors.  Recently, he has provided commercial managementadvice on a major mobile services BSS contract.

Simon’s early career covers many aspects of Local Government, including customer services for Croydon Council and Brent Council. His deep understanding of customer contact in Local government has proved invaluable during Atlantic’s many projects with Local Government entities.  In latter years, he has collaborated with Big Society pilots in Identity Management, and has a strong interest in Personal Data & Trust.

Simon's background includes strong ICT procurement experience, beginning with Croydon's fully outsourced ICT service, an £18m per year contract. In a recent assignment he was responsible for leading a variety of £multi-million procurements for Telefonica (O2).

Paul has substantial public and private sector experience working with firms such as Ernst & Young. He has worked at board level in many roles, honing strategic and commercial management skills, including procurement and negotiation. He was involved at Management Board level with the BBC’s successful Digital Switchover Help Scheme programme. He has also undertaken leadership development work with major Telecommunications companies. For Atlantic, he has led engagements at Merton Council and O2.