Our partners have over 60 years’ experience in providing tailored learning solutions for high calibre managers in major global companies – building on over 70 years’ industry experience in senior finance and marketing roles.
Julian Honey
Partner
Julian has over 15 years’ experience running a variety of tailored finance, marketing and business management programmes for a range of international companies. He is passionate about understanding different business needs and energetic in tailoring approaches to maximise results back in the workplace. Julian’s engaging style has won him global training awards from both Barclays and Unilever.
Julian is a Chartered Management Accountant and started his finance career in Unilever where he held roles in Internal Audit, Treasury, Brand Finance and Corporate Finance. He further developed his business acumen taking a senior Marketing role at the frozen food business, Birds Eye.
Skills and Expertise: Marketing, Pricing, Business Acumen, Business Partnering, Financial Acumen.
Industry sectors: FMCG, Education, Retailing, Banking
Justin Elliott
Partner
Since 2006, Justin has been doing consulting and training across the world for major companies such as Philips, Rentokil Initial, RBS, Sage and Unilever. A finance professional by background, he develops and delivers workshops on a wide variety of topics, from Strategic Pricing to Business Partnering. He is passionate about making finance accessible, drawing on his practical experience and his high-energy style to ensure enduring learning. He takes equal pleasure from training, where we normally know the “answer”, and consulting, where we jointly work to discover the answer.
Before all this, Justin spent almost 20 years working for Unilever in a variety of financial roles in the UK, Russia (immediately after the 1998 financial crash) and Spain (where the cultural challenge of merging Catalans, Basques and Portuguese was no less exciting). He works in Spanish as well as English.
Skills and Expertise: Pricing, Value Creation, Strategy, Business Partnering
Industry sectors: FMCG, Banking, Software, B2B Services, Retail
Jim Wells
PARTNER
Jim has been delivering management training and providing decision analysis consultancy for over 10 years for companies such as AstraZeneca, Unilever and BP. His previous FMCG finance experience, of about 20 years, gave him wide-ranging capability in business partnering roles and started him on his current path as a passionate developer of both finance and non-finance colleagues. Jim has extensive experience in both training and the practical application of advanced decision analysis tools – helping management teams develop stronger innovations or more robust business strategies. He is fully fluent in German as well as English.
Skills and Expertise: Decision Analysis, Business Partnering, Investment Appraisal, Financial Acumen
Industry sectors: Pharmaceutical, FMCG, Oil & Gas, Software
Email: jim.wells@hewmpartners.com
Joe Metcalfe
PARTNER
Since 2012 Joe has delivered management training programmes in over 25 countries for companies such as Unilever, Schibsted and Pearson. An Oxford University graduate, Joe is a qualified management accountant (CIMA) and Corporate Treasurer (AMCT) with 15 years’ industry experience in senior finance roles (eg Competitor Intelligence Director and Customer Finance Manager at Unilever).
Joe has a passion for developing others and is an accomplished war game facilitator – helping leadership teams devise winning action plans under intense competitive pressure. Joe has wide experience designing, developing and delivering learning programmes for the full range of business functions.
Skills and Expertise: Competitor Analysis, Financial Acumen, Business Partnering, War Gaming
Industry sectors: FMCG, eCommerce, Education, Restaurants
Jacqui Wingfield
Associate
Jacqui has supported training activities for more than 10 years. She has extensive experience in virtual classroom support, materials review and technical development of bespoke business simulations.
Jacqui is a Chartered Management Accountant with a pure maths degree so numbers are her thing.
Skills and Expertise: Business Management, Budgeting and Forecasting, Data Analysis, Business Simulations
Industry Sectors: Construction, Not for Profit, Financial Services, Engineering and Automotive
Chris Chesters
ASSOCIATE
Chris has 20+ years experience as a finance professional & qualified Management Accountant (CIMA) culminating most recently in Finance Director / General Manager roles. Those roles have offered Chris global experience in their reach and diversity in terms of geography, markets & people.
Throughout his career the importance, sponsorship and delivery of training/development programmes has always been clear as Chris passionately believes that it is through excellent teams that excellent results are achieved.
Skills and Expertise: Business Partnering, Pricing Management, Digital Business Services, Finance Transformation.
Industry Sectors: FMCG
Nick White
Associate
Nick has been involved in management education for a quarter of a century, delivering training programmes in over 45 countries for companies as diverse as the Financial Times, HP, J&J and Unilever. He is an Oxford educated engineer and a qualified Chartered Accountant (ACA). He previously worked in industry in the media, pharmaceuticals and bank note printing sectors in both the UK and Germany.
Nick enjoys distilling complex principles into pragmatic solutions for both finance professional and non-financial managers alike. He strongly believes in exploring the full range of teaching techniques and was an early adopter of virtual technology. Currently he is actively exploring bite-sized learning solutions.
Skills and Expertise: Business Acumen, Business Partnering, Financial Acumen, Financial Analysis and Financial Communications.
Industry Sectors: FMCG, Journalism, Pharmaceuticals, PR, Tech
Neil Stewart
Associate
Neil joined the HEWM team in 2018 to support the development of virtual training materials and training activities.
Neil is a manufacturing engineering graduate and Chartered Management Accountant. He spent most of his finance career in Unilever where he held UK and international roles in IT, Supply Chain Finance, Brand Finance, Financial Control and Information Management.
In recent years, Neil has held a number of interim and project consulting roles. Neil has a passion for coaching to enable individuals and teams to deliver superior performance.
Skills and Expertise: Business Partnering, Finance Transformation, Financial Controls, Information Management, Financial Acumen.
Industry sectors: FMCG
Mark Freer
ASSOCIATE
Mark is a qualified and practising executive coach, leadership consultant and communication expert with 30 years of experience in global leadership roles across the Communication and Technology sectors. He has successfully led global teams and transformation initiatives across marketing, sales, strategy, and culture for BT, 3, Hutchison Whampoa, O2 and Telefonica.
He is passionate about supporting clients lead and inspire change, build high performance teams and create clear, impactful communication through a mix of tailored Leadership Programmes and Executive Coaching.
Mark is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, certified in Positive Psychology and a professional Mentor with Swansea University and the CIM.
Skills and Expertise: Leadership, Executive Coaching, Marketing, Business Transformation, Business Acumen, Positive Psychology
Industry sectors: Technology, Telecommunication, Education, B2B Sectors, Industrial
Daniel Kettle
ASSOCIATE
Since 2012 Daniel has been in the training sector primarily in a Business Development capacity to align the provision of tailored learning solutions to improve business performance within blue-chip organisations. Daniel also supports delivery of learning programmes in particular the running of business simulations and interactive tutor-led virtual classrooms.
Prior to this, having graduated with a Business Administration degree from Brunel University, Daniel’s initial line of experience was within Marketing.
Skills and Expertise: Business Development, Business Simulations, Data Analysis, Marketing, Administration
Industry sectors: Manufacturing, Marketing, Media, Learning and Organisational Development, Not for profit
Audrey Eales
Associate
Audrey joined the HEWM team in 2018 to provide technical support for virtual classrooms. Audrey has a finance background, having worked as a management accountant in local government for over 20 years in a variety of roles. In 2013 she also completed a Higher Diploma in facilitating training.
Skills and Expertise: Management accounting, project management and training
Industry sectors: Local government, Not for profit