Chris Dale is the founding director of Btt. Before Btt, he spent 10 years in engineering, manufacturing and systems development before working as a management consultant with one of the world's largest professional services firms.

He has been a freelance independent consultant for 10 years working in business reengineering, BPR and process improvement, project and program(me) management in systems development and implementation.

He has worked in a wide range of industries including pharmaceuticals, electronics, engineering, telecommunications, aerospace, financial services, consumer goods, computer manufacture and commercial software development in the UK, USA and mainland Europe.

Chris Dale has a BSc degree in electronics engineering from London University and is a member of the Institute of Management Consultants (IMC), the Institute of Operations Management, the Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET) and the Institute of Directors (IOD).

David Rankin

Business Development Director

David Rankin had a successful career in London and internationally with National Westminster Bank (NatWest), reaching Senior Executive level.

Since then he has had a number of senior operational and business development roles in small to medium-sized companies including The Hunter Group Inc, Anite Finance Net, where he was Managing Director, and COR Intelligent Banking Solutions in The City.

He is a graduate in Economics from Newcastle University, and an Associate of The Chartered Institute of Bankers.

Tom Gilb

Associate Technical Director - Methods

Tom Gilb has been a leading international consultant, speaker and author on effectiveness in better results delivery for the last 30 years.

His work in developing methods for achieving early and frequent improvements in organisations, processes and projects pre-dates and still surpasses in originality, depth and effectiveness,  the recent 'rapid' and 'agile' schools of interest. 

Tom is the worldwide authority on the evolutionary delivery approach to rapid practical progress in organisations, projects and systems development. His methods are based on a number of profound insights, a rigorous approach to clear thinking and to problem solving which is explored in the various books he has published.

Originally from California, he is now based in Norway from where he travels to address conferences and work with well known multinational and Fortune 100 corporate clients around the world. Amongst other educational institutions, he has guest-lectured at Stanford, UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon and the London School of Economics

Elizabeth Hurry

Administration Manager

Elizabeth has worked in systems and PC training in the UK for the telecommunications companies STC and Alcatel. She then ran her own PC training consultancy with a client list including: BP, Amey Construction, Conde Nast and the BBC.

Most recently, she has taken on more and more administrative management and now heads our administration office near Tower Bridge, London.