Our Team - Quartz Associates

The composition of Quartz teams

Quartz finds consultants from our own network and partners we work with.

We find the right person for each job (both experience and cultural fit).

Quartz constants typically come with several years of consulting and industry experience.

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Stephen Heidari-Robinson

Founder

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Stephen Heidari-Robinson

Stephen is the Managing Director of Quartz Associates. He has helped dozens of companies across all sectors to reshape their organizations in order to grow faster.

Stephen has 20 years’ management consulting experience from Quartz, Schlumberger and McKinsey. He is the co-author of four Harvard Business Review (HBR) books on organizational change, and his thinking has featured in numerous articles/ interviews for HBR, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, the Economist, the American Management Association, the Financial Times, Public Administration Review etc.

Stephen brings specific expertise in energy. He was formerly the UK Prime Minister’s adviser on energy and climate change, a senior visiting fellow at Oxford University, and the co-founder and first vice chairman of the Faraday Institution (the UK’s battery research center).

Stephen speaks Farsi, has an interest in historic architecture, and is an open-water swimmer.

Suzanne Heywood

Founder

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Suzanne Heywood

Suzanne Heywood CBE (Lady Heywood of Whitehall) is the Chair of Quartz Associates. She has helped dozens of companies across all sectors to reshape their organizations in order to grow faster.

Suzanne has over 25 years’ experience helping companies to transform and grow, as a consultant and investor. She was global head of organizational design at McKinsey and is now COO of Exor (the Agnelli family’s investment vehicle), and the Chair of CNHI, Iveco Group and Shang Xia. She is also a Board member of the Economist, Louboutin and Clarivate.

Suzanne is the co-author of four Harvard Business Review (HBR) books on organizational change, and her thinking has featured in numerous articles/ interviews for HBR, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, the Economist, the American Management Association, the Financial Times, Public Administration Review etc.

Suzanne grew up sailing around the world with her family – the subject of a best selling memoir (Wavewalker), currently being turned into a TV series. She has also published a best selling biography of her late husband, the UK cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood. Suzanne was named World Women Hero at Davos 2024.

James Green

Co-founder

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James Green

Operations Director, formerly at McKinsey, Exor, the UK Ministry of Defence, Melbourne University, CDC, and NBCUniversal

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Alex Whitehead

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Alex Whitehead

Alex brings over 10 years experience of consulting. He started his working life as a teacher before moving to PwC and KPMG. In consulting, he has focused on the public sector, infrastructure and energy. Alex worked on a front line operations project with Quartz.

Alice Grant

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Alice Grant

Alice brings both industry and top tier consulting experience. She spent 7 years driving business change at Marks & Spencer, and has over 8 years management consulting experience from BCG, a boutique, and as an independent consultant. Alice worked on a front line operations project with Quartz.

Ananda Falcao

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Ananda Falcao

Ananda is an analyst focused on operational performance. She brings analytical skills in SQL, Google BigQuery, Tableau and Power BI. She has previously worked in inside sales for a logistics company and as a business intelligence analyst at Grupo Boticário. Anada tracked the financial impact of Quartz projects as part of a transformation.

Beke Vuma

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Beke Vuma

Beke is a former consulting firm partner with deep operations expertise. She brings 20 years experience, starting her career in engineering before working for McKinsey, BCG and GLG. Beke led a large Quartz programme of operations improvement for a utility.

Bjarke Pedersen

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Bjarke Pedersen

Project manager, based in Europe, former Deloitte and Ernst and Young, background in technology and implementation of organizations

Caitlin Tatham

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Caitlin Tatham

Caitlin brings over 10 years of industry, consulting and coaching experience. She is adept at programme managing multiple complex projects. She spent 3 years as a programme manager at Xero and has worked for Deloitte Consulting and as an independent consultant and coach. Caitlin project-managed a project to improve margins in a B2B/ B2C business.

Carl Gandeborn

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Carl Gandeborn

Project manager, based in UK but working in Africa, former Nokia country leader in LatAm/ AsiaPac, CEO/ interim CEO of multiple African telco and tech organizations

David Poddington

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David Poddington

Expert/ co-project leader, a legal partner with over 20 years’ experience, served as an advisor on employment issues in the EU or multiple projects

Denis Coppens

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Denis Coppens

Dennis brings over 6 years experience as a strategy consultant and fintech operator in demanding, fast-paced organizations. He worked with a Quartz client on an operations efficiency project.

Eric Eichmann

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Eric Eichmann

Eric is a seasoned CEO, who has been the CEO of Criteo (£2.3bn-revenue adtech), Spark Networks and ESW. He has also served as the COO of Rosetta Stone and Living Social. He was previously a McKInsey consultant. In a break between CEO positions, Eric worked as an associate on a Quartz fintech reorganization, advising the client on accelerating product development.

Eric Janvier

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Eric Janvier

Eric Janvier brings over 40 years industry and consulting experience. He started his working career as a Schlumberger wireline engineer, before going on to become a McKInsey partner, a vice president of Cambridge Technology Partners, the cofounder of Schlumberger Business Consulting and a managing director in Accenture. He advises Quartz teams and clients on technology and capital projects.

Evelina Pagkalou

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Evelina Pagkalou

Evelyna is a former associate partner at McKinsey. She has a background in transformation, AI and construction. Evelyna was UK MD for City Storage Systems, leading an organization of 200 people. Evelyna led a Quartz project to reorganize a capital projects function within a utility.

Henry Dawkins

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Henry Dawkins

Henry brings over 10 years experience of industry and management consulting. He started work for Oliver Wyman before moving on to Eliviva Homes as a strategy and operations manager, then working as an independent consultant interim. Henry led Quartz’s work in designing new operational processes for a utility.

Jack Webb

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Jack Webb

Jack is a data consultant with 10 years of experience working on strategic data projects. His passion is to take complex and patchy data and turn it into simple insight. He has previously worked for Strategy&, Discovery Networks International, Beam and as an Independent consultant. With Quartz, Jack has set up a performance management system for capital projects in a utility.

Jenny Kelly

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Jenny Kelly

Jenny has several years consulting experience, starting at Deloitte before moving to McKinsey. She specializes in organizational change and process improvements. She is certified in Six Sigma and change management. Jenny worked on a front line operations project with Quartz.

Joaquin Figaredo

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Joaquin Figaredo

Joaquin combines top tier management consulting skills and the ability to motivate people to change. He brings over 20 years experience from start ups, management consulting (BCG), and independent consulting. Joaquin has led Quartz organization projects in large technology firms and font line performance improvement projects in utilities.

Luis Polanco

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Luis Polanco

Luis brings both deep analytical skills and an ability to engage clients. He has several years experience from McKinsey, a start up and Amazon. Luis worked on a front line operations project with Quartz.

Luke Dixon

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Luke Dixon

Luke brings over 5 years experience in industry and management consulting. He started as a development engineer before working for KPMG as a consultant and then moving into independent consulting. Luke worked on a front line operations project with Quartz.

Luke Robinson

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Luke Robinson

Luke brings over 10 years experience in industry and consulting. He worked as a strategy consultant for AMR (market entry and due diligence). He then worked for 5 years in strategic development at Waterlogic. Luke helped a Quartz client to develop an organizational and financial plan to transform its technology directorate.

Mahlet Yared

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Mahlet Yared

Mahlet has several years work experience as an economist, diplomat, digital professional and consultant working for the UK Government (Treasury, Foreign Office and Government Digital Office) and PUBLIC (a digital consultancy). MAhlet has worked as the project manager of a Quartz organization project.

Marco Aurilo Trinidade Costa

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Marco Aurilo Trinidade Costa

Marco combines an understanding of engineering/ operations with finance. He has over 10 years work experience within LEK Consulting, Citi, private equity and as an independent consultant. Marco has tracked the impact of operations efficiency initiatives and led a project to put in place performance scoreboards throughout an organization.

Mark Hanrahan

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Mark Hanrahan

Mark brings 30 years of experience in commercial and operational improvements with work in defense, infrastructure, energy and materials. Mark has worked for Lockheed Martin, Steria, Roland Berger, DXC Technology, Strategy&, and as an independent consultant and interim. Mark developed a contractor strategy for the capital projects function of a Quartz client.

Michael Johnson

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Michael Johnson

Michael brings over 14 years experience of consulting and start ups. He specializes in leading large-scale transformational change. Miuchael has previously worked in consulting for Strategy& and Monitor Deloitte. He has also had operational roles in start ups and in Globaility. Michael worked on a front line operations project with Quartz.

Nathan Noerr

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Nathan Noerr

Nathan brings over 10 years of industry and consulting experience. He is able to resolve challenging management questions with clear data analytics. Nathan worked in pricing for Premier Inn and SHL, for Strategy& as a consultant, and as an independent consultant. Nathan has worked on both organization and operations projects with Quartz.

Nora Ghaoui

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Nora Ghaoui

Project manager, former McKinsey and independent consultant, former COO Airborne Oil and Gas, former Strategy Director at Philips, former Unilever product manager

Richard Cave Bigley

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Richard Cave Bigley

Project manager on Quartz’s first project, based in UK, former BP commercial leader, private equity and independent consultant

Sam Treon

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Sam Treon

Sam is a generalist consultant who builds strong relationships within organizations. He brings over 10 years experience from banking (ABN AMRO), consulting (OC&C), and technology (Tessian). Sam worked on a front line operations project with Quartz.

Steven Tideswell

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Steven Tideswell

Steve Tideswell brings 40 years experience of operations and maintenance. He started his career as a chemical engineer with ICI, before becoming a plant manager, and has since held senior roles with McKInsey, Alix Partners and as an independent consultant. Steve advises Quartz’s clients on projects that have a strong operations component.

Tatiana Eichmann

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Tatiana Eichmann

Tatiana has over 30 years experience in consulting and marketing, serving CEOs and Boards of Fortune 500 companies and NGOs. She has worked for the Soros Foundation, the International Finance Corporation, McKinsey, as the senior director for strategic marketing at webMethods, and as an independent consultant. Tatiana has worked on multiple Quartz organization projects which had technology and marketing/ sales components.

Tom Berkin

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Tom Berkin

Tom is a generalist consultant with a background in engineering. He brings over 10 years of experience from EY-Parthenon, CMA, Space Global Strategy, and McKinsey-owed Finaltra. Tom worked on a Quartz project to accelerate capital project design and delivery in a utility.

Tom Gray

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Tom Gray

Tom combines analytical skills with an ability to find out what is really going on in an organization. He has 3 years experience from working as a consultant in PUBLIC (a technology consultancy). Tom has worked on multiple organization and operations projects with Quartz.

OurTeam

The composition of Quartz teams

MEET THE CORE TEAM

Stephen Heidari-Robinson

Founder

Suzanne Heywood

Founder

James Green

Co-founder

Meet the Associates who have worked on our projects

Alex Whitehead

Alice Grant

Ananda Falcao

Beke Vuma

Bjarke Pedersen

Caitlin Tatham

Carl Gandeborn

David Poddington

Denis Coppens

Eric Eichmann

Eric Janvier

Evelina Pagkalou

Henry Dawkins

Jack Webb

Jenny Kelly

Joaquin Figaredo

Luis Polanco

Luke Dixon

Luke Robinson

Mahlet Yared

Marco Aurilo Trinidade Costa

Mark Hanrahan

Michael Johnson

Nathan Noerr

Nora Ghaoui

Richard Cave Bigley

Sam Treon

Steven Tideswell

Tatiana Eichmann

Tom Berkin

Tom Gray

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