Alan Stevens
Managing Director

Alan Stevens

Alan is the driving force of Vector, continually pushing the organisation and its people forward. Alan specialises in bottom line improvements to corporate results across many industries including highly competitive and heavily regulated environments. He has an extensive background in organisational diagnostics, alignment, leadership and change management. He is a national culture expert, specialising in mergers and acquisitions and has worked on major organisational projects for global blue-chip companies across the globe for over 25 years.

We exist simply to ensure that our clients are doing all that they possibly can to perform to the best of their abilities. It is sometimes impossible to see every single problem or business issue that your company may be facing. It is our job to tell you the absolute truth about what is happening in your organisation, and then implement the strategies that we create to solve any problems which are preventing you from achieving ultimate success.

~ Alan Stevens, Managing Director Vector Consultants

Steve Mullins
Director of Purchasing and Supply Chain Practice

Steve Mullins

Steve is passionate about working with blue chip clients in all sectors to transform the value that procurement and supply chain people and processes contribute to the business.

On leaving Oxford where he studied Engineering Science, Steve's career took him firstly to the manufacturing sector with roles in production and project management, and then into the an international airline with his first senior procurement role. Steve went on to become the first leader of procurement in NatWest Bank, with subsequent senior leadership level roles in Corporate Strategy, and Telephone & Internet banking.

Steve moved into the consulting field in 1996, becoming Group Managing Director of PMMS Consulting, the international procurement and supply chain specialists. Following taking up a senior role in 2007 in Macquarie Capital's portfolio asset transformation practice, Steve Joined Vector Consultants in early 2010 with the remit to develop a new procurement & supply chain practice reflecting both global best practice in those disciplines as well as coordinating this work with Vector's well known change management and strategy implementation practices.

Nazli Ozek
General Manager Vector Turkey

Nazli Ozek

Nazli is an expert in managing across multi disciplinary functions to achieve overall corporate success. She was an active member of the Matgroup Board of Directors, a privately owned family company, for 11 years and served as the Chief Financial Officer from 2004-2010. During this time she lead the introduction and distribution of world leading brands such as Kodak, Agfa, Dupont and HP into the Turkish market.

A widely acclaimed executive coach and change management consultant, Nazli has joined Vector to lead and accelerate further our phenomenal success which we are experiencing in this fast growing market.

Claudia Bloom
Associate Consulting Director, Change Management

Claudia Bloom

Human performance improvement consultant with over 30 years experience implementing improved business performance through harnessing human potential. Former corporate banker with significant international experience in planning and executing organization transformation programmes in the financial services, telecommunications, semi-conductor manufacturing and public sectors. A specialist in state-of-the-art learning she also performs evaluations and provides recommendations to senior management teams on the effectiveness of organizational change and professional development initiatives.

Gene Drumm
Associate Consulting Director, Change Management

Gene Drumm

Gene has held a variety of leadership positions, including Senior Director of Organization Change Management with Fujitsu America; Organizational Development Director with Microsoft; and Senior Director of Vector Europe Business Consultants.

He has been involved in a number of large-scale change projects including M&A integration, total quality management, concurrent product development, and reengineering efforts, as well as leadership and culture change initiatives. He headed up a significant portion of the data collection and interpretation effort and report preparation for the cultural due diligence aspect of the HP/Compaq combination - arguably the most successful integration of that size in the industry. In addition, Gene is a skilled coach and mentor.

Gene is often an invited speaker on such topics as leadership, performance management, and organizational change at national and international events as well as local and regional conferences. He has twice received the President's Award from the International Society for Performance Improvement, in recognition of his contributions to the field.

Lynne Goulding
Associate Consulting Director, Change Management

Lynne Goulding

Lynne has worked with Vector for over 12 years in a variety of organisational change and leadership programmes within a diverse range of organisations worldwide. She brings a wealth of experience of successfully operating at all levels of organisations from the Board to some of the most junior members and establishes instant rapport with all.

Cristina Mihai
Associate Consulting Director, Change Management

Cristina Mihai

Cristina is a business development executive with relevant international expertise in organisational development consulting programmes both in the business environment and the public sector. During the last ten years she has delivered 50+ consulting assignments in 29 organisations from Insurance & Banking, IT&C services and distribution, Pharmaceutical distribution, Events consulting, Government, public and private Health Care services and energy sectors in 4 countries.

Hannah Swanston
Marketing & Business Development Director

Hannah Swanston

Through over ten years experience in the design, marketing and sales industry, Hannah has a thorough understanding of perception in the marketplace and communicating with the chosen audience. As well as working for leading branding and advertising agencies, Hannah has worked on major global ad campaigns to include Carlsberg and Lucozade, to include offline and online marketing activity, as well as developing major accounts with key clientele.

Roger Flynn
Chair, Advisory Board

Roger Flynn

Roger Flynn has over 20 years of business experience working at CEO/MD level in a range of Global PLC’s and Private Equity backed businesses. He has run businesses with turnovers between £400m and £2bn, with millions of customers and thousands of staff and led them through some very challenging transformational changes.

Roger has held Executive positions at Virgin, British Airways Plc, Prudential Plc, the BBC and SDI Media Group, a global private equity backed business. He is known for being highly customer oriented and an accelerator of business performance through smart strategies and people-led change.

Shirley Cooper
Procurement & Supply Chain Director, Computacenter (UK) Ltd

Shirley Cooper

Shirley is the Procurement and Supply Chain Director for Computacenter, a £2bn services and solutions company with 8000 employees across Europe, which she joined in 1999 as Procurement and Returns Director. Shirley also chairs the Quality Review Board in recognition of her achievements in cultural and behavioural change.

Shirley holds an MBA and is a qualified accountant. She made the transition into procurement after holding a number of senior financial positions at organisations including Yorkshire Water, Leeds Teaching Hospitals, Allied Domecq and Rowntree Mackintosh.

Shirley became the President of The Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply (CIPS) on 1st November for 2009-10. Shirley is a fellow of the Institute and is also a member of the Institute of Directors.