About

The Fenton & Co team are experienced business people with demonstrably high "soft" skills and a track record in delivering business results across a broad range of industry sectors.

We are supported by researchers and IT professionals and by an Advisory Board which ensures that we have a relevant and up-to-date understanding of the market and our clients' needs. We have a seven year track record of making a significant difference to the businesses of the careers of our clients.


Team

Ciarán Fenton, Managing Partner. Ciarán’s corporate background is in senior management roles at Hachette, ITN, Pearson, and GMG where he was involved in and observed successful talent and intellectual property management models in sport, publishing, film and television always in high change environments. He was also exposed to a wide range of personal and leadership development processes. These experiences formed the basis of the Fenton Model™ which he created and developed and, since 2002, he has a successful track record of applying the Model with individuals and organisations including, for example: Atkins, Unilever, Sony Ericsson and UBS Investment Bank. He is a mentor at London Business School, a member of Coutts Bank's Assets & Responsibility Faculty and an advisor with Young Enterprise. He holds a business degree, B.Com (Hons.), from The National University of Ireland, Cork.

Malcolm Wolf, Delivery Supervisor and Advisory Board - Malcolm Wolf has 25 years experience of consulting to some of the world's leading corporations on critical issues of strategy, performance, organization, and IT. He was formerly a Partner at McKinsey, where he built and co-led McKinsey's IT practice in the UK, and he has also been a Partner of KPMG, where he built and led an M&A Business Advisory practice in TMT sectors. Malcolm is a currently a Director of TruePoint, a boutique linked to Harvard Business School, specialised in transforming business, organisation and people performance. His clients have included Microsoft, BP, Roche, Reuters, Terra Firma, and JPMorgan. Malcolm is a mentor on London Business School's Entrepreneurship program, and a mentor to disadvantaged young people for The Prince's Trust. Malcolm holds degrees in both Philosophy and Chemistry, and a PhD in Computational Chemistry from University College London. His academic distinctions include the UCL Faculty of Science medal, for top science degree of the year, and the UCL Ramsay medal for most distinguished research.

Ken J. Davey, Business Development Director. Ken is an experienced business to business board level sales specialist, with a strong commercial and financial management background. He has over twelve years of international sales and delivery consulting experience with KPMG - seven at Director level. His clients have included: Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks, Thomson Reuters and Huhtamäki, Canon, Deutsche Telekom and France Télécom. Ken has an MBA and accountancy qualification (FCMA).

Leila Tavakoli, Partner - Operations. Leila has a variety of project and programme management experience within public and private sector companies. After starting on BT's Graduate Scheme, Leila was quickly promoted to manage some of BT Wholesale's internal IT Infrastructure Change Programmes, and in 2007, she started her own project management consultancy. Leila holds an Information Systems Degree, BSc Honours, from the University of Leeds.

Sheila Benniams, Private Client Manager. Sheila has wide ranging experience from joining the Marks and Spencer Graduate Scheme to working as a National Account Manager for a leading optical services group. Latterly she has worked exclusively for recruitment consultants in researching candidates and head hunting at a senior level for national and international posts and she manages her own recruitment research business. With over 20 years of commercial management behind her and an honours degree in Business Studies from Stirling University. Sheila now develops Fenton & Co's private client business with a worldwide remit.

Andy Gannon, Advisory Board. During a 25 year career, Andy spent 19-years at Hewlett Packard where his final position was at UK Director level. He has a reputation as a change manager and organisational designer, and over the last five years has joined the boards of a number of businesses as Executive and Non Executive Director. This is complemented by pro-bono work in the charity and not-for-profit sector along with advisory, mentoring and coaching roles. Andy holds a Civil Engineering Degree, BSc, from the University of Nottingham, is a Member of the British Computer Society and a Fellow of the RSA.

Stephen Thompson, Advisory Board. Stephen is the former HR Director of Camelot Group Plc, and is currently an independent HR Consultant specialising in change management, coaching, and communication. He has been a programme tutor for the Open University Business School and a career mentor for The Tomorrow's People organisation; he is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and a judge for the National Business Awards. Stephen has served for several years as a Trustee of The Camelot Foundation. Stephen is in the final stages of his Advanced Diploma in Coaching and Mentoring to become accredited as an Advanced Practitioner with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council.