Baringa promotes five new Partners to join leadership team
Management consulting firm Baringa Partners has promoted five Directors to the role of Partner. Anya Davis, Ryan Thomson and Andy Singleton have been named a Partner in the Energy & Resources team, while Vanessa Clark and Julius Attwood bolster the leadership of the Customer & Digital and Insurance practices, respectively.
Anya Davis joined Baringa Partners back in 2006, when it was known as the Structure Group, returning in 2009 after a short period spent in corporate banking with the Europe Arab Bank. She has over a decade of energy retail experience and has helped established players transform their organisations and new entrants build fully functioning businesses in the UK market. Davis has extensive experience across the delivery lifecycle, from setting the change agenda, through to system and business change delivery. At Baringa, she plays a leading role in the firm’s Smart Utilities offerings.
Ryan Thomson has been active in the consulting industry since 2001, when he started his career at Accenture. He joined Baringa in 2008 to help grow the firm’s strategic and commercial focus in the downstream energy markets. Over the past years Thomson has worked across the energy value chain from developing asset operating models for generation portfolios, through defining midstream trading interfaces, building commercial models for distributed generation and battery storage assets all the way through to developing market entry and customer strategies for retail suppliers and large end users. He also leads Baringa’s intern and training programmes.
After staring his career in 2002 as the energy and commodity trading market with US giant ExxonMobil, Andy Singleton joined Baringa in October 2004. At the consultancy, Singleton specialises in Programme Management and delivery of major trading transformation projects – he is one of the firm’s lead specialists for Trading and Risk Management solution selection and delivery and has a deep understanding of the trading markets, the technical solutions and the front to back business models implemented within them. He serves a wide range of clients, from investment banks to oil & gas majors and commodity trading organisations. Going forward, Singleton has been tasked with further developing Baringa’s trading offering.
Vanessa Clark has been promoted as Partner for the Customer and Digital practice, after three and a half years at Baringa. She joined the management consultancy late 2012 from EY, previously she held a business change role at Thames Water. Clark specialises in designing and delivering programmes to reduce costs whilst driving customer service improvement, with a focus on engagements in the utilities sector.
Finally, Julius Attwood, a financial services expert, has taken on the role of Partner in Baringa’s Insurance business unit. Attwood has in recent years worked on a number of complex projects, including IT deliveries and major regulation changes. He started his career in banking, with Norwich Union and Virgin Money, delivering projects across credit and mortgage products, and then moved to Insurance. Attwood worked for five years at Aviva, mainly as a programme manager, and latterly as head of the Aviva’s Group Centre Solvency II unit, a team which comprised circa 150 staff.
Commenting on the five Partner appointments, Adrian Bettridge, Managing Partner at Baringa, says the promoted advisors can all build on an “outstanding” client service track record, and adds: “At Baringa, our people are our strongest asset and I am thrilled that we’ve been able to promote five talented colleagues into the Partnership. We are delighted to see the development and progression of our colleagues.”
Baringa has over 400 professionals in the UK and Germany, among which 46 Partners. The London based consultancy was earlier this month named one of UK’s top 100 employers.
