Trusted By Leaders
Brought In By Big 4
We're regularly engaged by EY, Deloitte, Accenture, and others when they need hands-on delivery expertise. They trust us to implement what they've designed.
Repeat Clients
70%+ of our clients engage us for multiple initiatives. We build relationships, not transactions.
Client Sectors:
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8 FTSE 100 companies
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15+ financial services institutions
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5 government departments and agencies
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20+ scale-ups and mid-sized enterprises
Meet the Team
Senior practitioners who've led transformations from the inside - not career consultants who learned from textbooks.
Every person at Agilicist has 10-25+ years of hands-on delivery and transformation experience. We've been CTOs, VPs of Delivery, Programme Directors, and Product Leaders - not just advisors.
When you work with us, you get people who've lived the problems you're facing.
Why Our Team is Different
No Junior Consultants
We don't staff engagements with recent graduates learning on your time. Every person has 10+ years of practitioner experience. Senior only.
Practitioners, Not Advisors
We've done this work ourselves - led transformations, built products, scaled delivery. We teach what we've lived, not what we've read.
Accountable for Outcomes
We're measured by your results, not our invoices. We stay until outcomes are achieved, not just frameworks deployed.
Partners
Agilicist’s core offering is powered by Partners steeped in experience, who competently blend Business Strategy and Product Delivery with deep Agile mastery to drive tangible client results.
Abbas Dhanani
Partner & Training Lead
Abb is an all-round technologist who specialises in Agile coaching, training and transformations with particular expertise in scaling agile for the enterprise.
He cut his teeth as a PRINCE2 Project Manager before moving to agile and has over 24 years’ experience across a number of industries across both public and private sectors. Abb has spent time in a number of reputable consultancies including: Ernst & Young, PA Consulting, Capita and Agilicist.
Industries:
Financial Services, Gaming & Betting, Government & Defence, Professional Services
Specialisations:
Transformation Rescue, Scaled Agile Delivery, Strategy-to-Execution, Team Performance
"Developing teams isn't about choosing the best framework; it's about mastering core principles and building the competence to execute when reality challenges the plan."
Darren Emery
Partner & Transformation Lead
Darren brings 15+ years of experience in product delivery, lean and agile transformations, and portfolio optimisation for mid-to-large enterprises. Before co-founding Agilicist, he led a 250-person development organisation at a FTSE 100 sports betting firm, driving over 60% revenue growth by reshaping delivery to be outcome-focused and strategically aligned.
He specialises in connecting leadership strategy to execution, known for challenging conventional frameworks and embedding sustainable, high-performance habits across teams and portfolios.
Industries:
Financial Services, Sports Betting, Gaming & Technology
Specialisations:
Strategy-to-Execution, Portfolio Optimisation, Organisational Agility, Scaled Delivery, Product-Led Growth
"Agile isn’t broken. It’s just buried under frameworks."
Simon Maurer
Partner & Delivery Lead
Simon brings 20+ years of hands-on delivery experience, having progressed from developer to programme manager leading multi-million-pound transformations across financial services, sports betting, FMCG, insurance, telecoms, and pharmaceuticals.
He specialises in large-scale programme delivery, organisational alignment, and embedding high-performing delivery practices at scale. Simon combines technical depth with pragmatic leadership, ensuring transformations are delivered efficiently while driving measurable business outcomes.
Industires:
Financial Services, Sports Betting, FMCG, Insurance, Telecoms, Pharmaceuticals
Specialisations:
Scaled Delivery, Programme Management, Agile Leadership, Organisational Alignment
"You can plan all you want - but delivery is where the real story, and the real risk, unfolds."
Subject Matter Experts
Product Specialists
Senior Product Owners and Product Managers with 10-15 years building and scaling products.
Adeeb Khan
15+ years helping architect high-performing product organisations and transforming strategic challenges into market-defining opportunities.
Ben Golob
With over 15 years in Senior Product Management, Ben is a proven expert in launching and scaling complex digital platforms, including AI and data-led products.
Technical Specialists
Architects, DevOps Leads, and Quality experts with deep technical expertise.
Andrew Cheeseman
28+ years helping architect high-performing product organisations and transforming strategic challenges into market-defining opportunities.
Brendan Gowing
Brendan specialises in technology leadership with a focus on start-up and scale-up delivery. He has helped numerous founders take their idea from concept to market and fixed productivity issues for teams already struggling in their marketplace. Brendan has written 4 patents and holds a Ph.D. in distributed computing systems.
Sonia Maurer
Hands on Test Specialist with 20+ years’ experience across Telecoms, Finance, Healthcare, Retail, Betting and Gaming. Skilled in complex testing delivery and driving quality across the software lifecycle. Focused on growing teams’ testing capability, embedding best practice and fostering continuous improvement. Balances strategic vision with hands on execution to deliver robust, reliable solutions in demanding environments.
Alex Kaiser
Alex has over 30 years of IT delivery and transformation experience, with a hands-on background across development, testing, and leadership. He helps organisations streamline work, uncover opportunities, and deliver value faster, focusing on collaboration, team empowerment, and lasting ways of working.
Delivery Experts
Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, and RTEs certified across multiple frameworks.
Maggie Valkova
Maggie is a hands-on Agile delivery specialist with strong product expertise.
With a background in psychology and statistics, she combines human insight with data to drive agility across sectors including investment banking, defence, and HR.
Ian Jones
A transformational Programme Director with over 15 years’ experience delivering executive-led change in regulated industries. Skilled in platform replacements, digital product development, and large-scale tech adoption, with a strong track record of guiding leaders through complex transitions.
Steve Roy
Steve is an Agile consultant who has supported teams across industries, from software development to HR, marketing, and operations. He now focuses on helping leadership teams drive enterprise agility, particularly in football and the energy sector.
How We Work
4 Principles
1. We Embed, We Don't Advise from Afar
We work alongside your teams - in your offices, in your standups, in your retrospectives. We're not advisors who fly in for workshops then disappear.
2. We Build Your Capability, Not Dependency
From day one, we're training your people to sustain and evolve what we build. Our goal is to make ourselves unnecessary.
3. We're Honest, Even when It's Awkward
We tell you what you need to hear. If your approach won't work, we say so. If you should kill a project, we recommend it. No sugar-coating.
4. We're Accountable for Outcomes
We measure success by your results, not our activity. If outcomes aren't achieved, we haven't succeeded - regardless of how much we worked.
Small Team, bigger impact
the Advantage of Boutique
Big Consultancies:
100,000+ employees globally
Need to staff 50+ simultaneous engagements
Junior consultants fill most roles
Partners you meet in sales aren't who delivers
Profit from arbitrage (charge senior rates, deliver junior people)
Agilicist:
Selective team of senior practitioners
We limit concurrent engagements to maintain quality
Every person has 10+ years experience
Partners are hands-on throughout
Profit from effectiveness, not volume
What This Means:
You get our A-team, not our bench team. The people you meet in the sales process are the people who'll deliver. Quality over quantity.
"With [Big 4 Firm], we got 10 people but only 2 knew what they were doing. With Agilicist, we got 4 people and all 4 were exceptional."
- CTO, Financial Services
Credentials & Partnerships
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
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SAFe Programme Consultants (SPCs)
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Authorised training partners
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All SAFe certifications represented
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Scrum Inc (Scrum@Scale)
Licensed Scrum@Scale Trainers
Registered Scrum Master@Scale
Official training partners
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Scrum Inc (Scrum)
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Registered Scrum Trainers (RSTs)
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Authorised to deliver all RSM/RSPO courses
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Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS)
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Certified LeSS Trainers
Work With People Who've Done This Before
Stop getting junior consultants learning on your time. Work with senior practitioners who've led transformations, built products, and delivered under pressure.
Book a consultation and meet the team who'll actually work with you.