Andy Watt
Owner
Andy Watt is a founding member of the Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization (TOCICO) and a Chartered Fellow of CILT (Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport), the owner and driving force behind Goldratt UK, increasing the exposure of TOC to the UK.
Andy, a Mechanical Engineer for ten years prior to starting his consulting career, held a number of Senior Management positions within the Aerospace and Defence industry in the UK. These included Head of Continuous Improvement, Quality manager, Engineering Manager, Head of Operations and Engineering. He specialised in the implementation of TOC, Lean, Six Sigma and Taguchi in production and R&D environments. This included Hunting Engineering, AWE Aldermaston and Lockheed Martin.
In 2000 Andy joined The Goldratt Institute, training coaching and consulting to companies. He formed his own company Levee LLP in 2004 and took over Goldratt UK in 2007 to provide TOC consultancy across the UK. Since 2004 it has grown to more than 25 employees and annual sales of more than £1.8M.
Conducting two types of implementations; Holistic and functional implementations; these are typically Production, Distribution, MRO, Project Management and Sales & Marketing.
Over the last fifteen years Andy and Goldratt UK have worked with hundreds of organisations implementing TOC including; Bentley, Honeywell, Masterfoods, Bombardier, Eurostar, Siemens, Johnson Matthey and many more SMEs. Andy was lucky enough to work closely with Dr Goldratt for a number of years and is a regular presenter at worldwide conferences.
Andy is also an owner and Director of software company RopeWeaver who provide TOC based software for Operations, Procurement and Distribution.
In 2013 Andy also became shareholder and Director in Tenon Engineering a manufacturing business engineering and producing instrumentation products; including Rheometers and viscometers; which is on a TOC journey to become ever flourishing and acquired Wallace Instruments who sell Plastimeters and hardness testers across the world.
Andy has also held a number of non-executive Director positions. Andy was awarded TOCICO's Implementer of the Year in 2018.
Ian Gillott
Chief Operating Officer
Ian joined the Goldratt UK team as Chief Operating Officer in 2024. In this role, he oversees the organisation’s day-to-day operations and drives strategic growth. A seasoned executive, Ian brings a wealth of leadership experience across the Rail, Automotive, Construction, and Bus sectors, having successfully navigated business landscapes in four different countries.
Over the past 11 years, Ian has held senior roles within the Bamford group of companies, including JCB, Wrightbus, and AllServiceOne. With a foundation in Mechanical Engineering and expertise in Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen, and Six Sigma methodologies, Ian has demonstrated a consistent ability to deliver operational excellence and foster innovation.
Notably, he played a pivotal role in refreshing Wrightbus, steering the company's recovery and leading the establishment and scaling of its aftermarket business over a transformative five-year period. A results-oriented, self-driven, and resilient leader, Ian thrives in dynamic environments, embracing the challenges of organisational change and continuous improvement.
Ian is committed to driving growth at Goldratt UK in the years to come, ensuring it continues to deliver huge value to its clients.
Martin Powell
DIRECTOR
Martin is one of the key Goldratt UK consultants leading major implementations of TOC across Europe. Since 1994 Martin has successfully implemented TOC for Goldratt UK in dozens of organisations and also supports Goldratt Consulting global.
As a Goldratt UK Director, he works with organisations to customize their Strategy and Tactics, transfer the knowledge and coach people to make the desired growth possible. He focuses primarily on these core areas: Operations, Project Management, Supply Chain, Finance & Measures, Distribution, Managing People, Sales & Marketing and Strategy.
He has been a Principal with Goldratt Schools, and has provided management education and support in over 30 countries.
His extensive widespread experience has resulted in the development of expertise particularly in managing large scale change programmes, IT and Systems, process management and providing consultancy services. Martin has led a number of projects to implement TOC in both large and small organisations, some in the UK and some with a global reach. He has supported Supply Chain assignments including clients in Venezuela in manufacturing and retail and also supported Healthcare projects.
Martin has huge experience in many sectors including automotive, Steel and Titanium production, automotive, packaging, construction, engineering, MRO, clinical research, IT, Chemical, healthcare, ERP, Finance and Clothing.
He’s previously been an approved consultant for UK Government’s Department of Trade and Industry Grant Aided IT developments. He’s also worked as the UK regional manager of Dale Carnegie, overseeing major accounts and the delivery of service by 21 consultants/trainers.
Martin’s background is as a Chartered Accountant. He was previously the Managing Partner of a leading regional Accountancy practice.
He is a founder member of the Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization (TOCICO) and worked closely with Eli Goldratt for nearly 10 years.
John Muncaster
Head of Operations
John started with Goldratt UK in 2005 as part of the Operations team. A management consultant dedicated to delivering TOC improvement programs for blue-chip clients such as PRA, NATS, Schneider Electric, Domino Printers and Bentley. One of the most knowledgeable, experienced implementers in the UK.
John has contributed significantly to Goldratt UK’s comprehensive knowledge base and delivery processes. Driven by improving Goldratt UK’s approach and disseminating his knowledge among clients, he ensures the knowledge is always up to date.
As Head of Operations, John is responsible for the organisation and performance of project managers within the company. He graduated with an honours degree in Manufacturing Engineering and from there went on to hold a variety of management positions in manufacturing organisations.
Prior to joining Goldratt UK, John was involved with numerous success stories. One such achievement was to increase the manufacturing capabilities of a mobile telecommunications organisation from a small UK SME employing 30 people, to a multinational employing over 1000. He was also a founding team member of the Lean Aerospace Initiative, a government backed programme aiming to equip the UK's Aerospace industry with the Lean tools and techniques, successfully employed by the automotive sector.
Phil Snelgrove
Head of Operations
Phil Snelgrove has been a TOC Implementer and professional since 2003. Phil’s TOC expertise has resulted in him working with clients to improve entire supply chains (Procurement/Development/Operations/Sales/Distribution) or focusing on specific parts.
His major objectives are systematic and quantifiable improvement and ultimately self-sustainability for his clients.
Phil is a fully accredited TOC expert and holds a Masters in Engineering from Durham University. Prior to working with Goldratt UK, he was an engineer in a multi-national industrial tool manufacturer.
He is a people person and thoroughly enjoys working with teams to achieve common goals and objectives.
Over the summer of 2021, the whole team at Goldratt UK qualified in Viago's Black Belt in Thinking Foundations Course to upgrade their knowledge and understanding of the Thinking Tools. Phil completed the course and is now certified.
Frances Shaw
Head of Sales and Marketing
Frances joined Goldratt UK in 2007 and drives our Sales and Marketing strategy. She has over 20 years of marketing experience working in both B2B and B2C markets.
Her most recent success story working for Goldratt UK has been applying the principles of TOC to the sales pipeline and building the processes. This included re-designing the website, building new campaigns and redesigning emails.
Over the summer of 2021, the whole team at Goldratt UK qualified in Viago's Black Belt in Thinking Foundations Course to upgrade their knowledge and understanding of the Thinking Tools. Frances completed the course and is now certified.
Kris Abramowski
Management Consultant
Kris joined the Operations team at Goldratt UK in 2010. He plays a key role in dozens of TOC solution implementations in British, Polish and Dutch companies including Johnson Matthey, F1 team’s manufacturing, Inventi BV and PLP Belos.
Kris acts as Goldratt UK’s computer software specialist and specialises in the implementation of RopeWeaver.
From 1992 to 2000 Kris co-owned JBA Poland – a leading provider of ERP solutions for European and Polish production companies. He then became co-owner of TOC Consulting Polska, the first TOC consulting company in Poland, where he spent 10 years helping manufacturing and engineering companies to implement TOC.
From the mid-2000s Kris has also run a successful TOC post-graduation programme at Warsaw University of Technology.
He is a founding member of TOCICO.
Over the summer of 2021, the whole team at Goldratt UK qualified in Viago's Black Belt in Thinking Foundations Course to upgrade their knowledge and understanding of the Thinking Tools. Kris completed the course and is now certified.
Lauren Wiles
Marketing Executive
Lauren joined the Sales and Marketing team at Goldratt UK in 2019 after graduating first class from the University of Sussex with a BA (Hons) in History. During her studies, Lauren interned in the Marketing department for Mercedes-Benz Vans as a Connectivity Specialist.
During her employment at Goldratt UK she has received training in both TOC and CCPM, she is a regular writer for the blog and newsletter, and co-authored Andy Watt's (Managing Director) business novellas 'Release: The Vision' and 'Release: The Potential'.
Over the summer of 2021, the whole team at Goldratt UK qualified in Viago's Black Belt in Thinking Foundations Course to upgrade their knowledge and understanding of the Thinking Tools. Lauren completed the course and is now certified.
In 2023, Lauren gained her Diploma in Professional Marketing with the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) and remains up to date with best practices and industry trends.
Ollie Buck
Management Consultant
Ollie joined the Goldratt UK consulting team in early 2017. This was a move from the aviation industry where he had spent 10 years managing large multi-organisation operations and improvement projects.
As a consultant, Ollie has worked with a wide range of clients across multiple industries including brewing and food production, construction (design and build), production operations and sales (B2B and B2C). Whether at home in the UK or over in Europe, he has worked with clients to holistically improve their business or to direct improvement initiatives toward specific departments - covering production operations, supply chain, sales and marketing and project management.
Jono Lockwood
Management Consultant
Jono joined the Operations team at Goldratt UK in 2019. Prior to starting at the company, Jono gained experience in acoustic consulting and automotive manufacturing after graduating with an MEng in Automotive Engineering from Loughborough University.
Over the summer of 2021, the whole team at Goldratt UK qualified in Viago's Black Belt in Thinking Foundations Course to upgrade their knowledge and understanding of the Thinking Tools. Jono completed the course and is now certified.
Paul Morgan
Management Consultant
Paul joined the Operations team at Goldratt UK in 2022. He has a wealth of knowledge in many business sectors, including engineering, supply chain logistics and manufacturing.
Paul was an Engineering Manager for 20 years before moving to manufacturing as a Continuous Improvements Manager for a large global manufacturer for 5 years. It was during his time in this role that he was introduced to TOC. He was TOC Champion during the implementation process, which saw impressive improvements in sales, operational capacity and ultimately business growth.
In 2015, Paul took a role as General Manager (Head of Land Based Operations Middle East) for a Global Shipping Country. Paul implemented TOC and CCPM throughout the business which saw enormous growth in revenue and business opportunities. He held this position for 5 years.
In 2020, Paul accepted a Chief Executive Office role in the Middle East for a 3PL organisation. This position once again afforded him the opportunity to use his knowledge and experience in TOC to increase operational capacity throughout the business, seeing exceptional growth in the 3 years he led the company.
Paul has a real passion for TOC and the advantages it provides to businesses, in 2022 he moved back to UK and joined Goldratt UK to help other organisations implement TOC and CCPM.
Maria Cristina Sierraalta Aranguren
Management Consultant
Maria joined Goldratt UK in 2007 but has been working with the Theory of Constraints (TOC) since 1995. She has a degree in Engineering and has successfully implemented TOC in a wide range of organisations, both in the UK and Venezuela.
Maria enjoys working closely with the shop floor, doing whatever it takes in order to achieve step-change improvements in performance.
Over the last 10 years Maria has worked with automotive, MRO train companies, the NHS, construction, packaging machine builders and clothing manufacturing and distribution companies.
Over this time she taught Operations Management at two universities in Venezuela where she supervised TOC improvement projects conducted by her students in their employers’ businesses. These projects delivered significant bottom line improvements.
Over the summer of 2021, the whole team at Goldratt UK qualified in Viago's Black Belt in Thinking Foundations Course to upgrade their knowledge and understanding of the Thinking Tools. Maria completed the course and is now certified.
Ben Johnson
Management Consultant
Ben joined the Operations team at Goldratt UK in 2015. From an engineering background, Ben began at the company following 10 years as manager of continuous improvement for a large global manufacturer.
Initially working as an internal project leader, he has held roles overseeing holistic TOC implementations for operations, project management and sales across the world.
As a management consultant, Ben works with organisations, either with the company as a whole or with specific departments, to achieve significant improvements in performance.
Ben has led his own projects helping clients across a range of industry sectors including construction, decontamination product development, special process machinery projects and laboratory equipment sales & distribution.
Over the summer of 2021, the whole team at Goldratt UK qualified in Viago's Black Belt in Thinking Foundations Course to upgrade their knowledge and understanding of the Thinking Tools. Ben completed the course and is now certified.
Brad Cartier
Brad started with Goldratt UK in 2021, leading projects with US clients. Graduating with Honours as a Manufacturing Engineer, Brad began his career 3M, working in plants across the globe. In 1997, he trained directly with Dr Eli Goldratt and then in 1998 he joined the Goldratt Institute. He has since worked as a management consultant implementing the Theory of Constraints (TOC) and Lean / Six Sigma across many companies in multiple countries.
Brad is a founding member of the TOCICO where he has helped write and review TOC Project Management tests as well as co-author to collect, refine and draft TOC terms to publish the first edition of the TOC Dictionary. He is certified in all aspects of TOC including the Thinking Processes, Project Management, Production, Logistics, Metrics, etc.
Prior to joining Goldratt UK, Brad has led numerous successful transformations across all types of manufacturing companies, MRO environments and IT projects. His previous successes include companies like GM, Boeing, Novartis, CRAY Supercomputers, P&G, as well as the US Marines, Navy, Airforce and Army - including manufacturing companies who have been transformed implementing TOC/Lean/Six Sigma with his guidance and support.
Paul Waterhouse
Management Consultant
Paul Waterhouse joined the Goldratt UK team in 2024. He is an accomplished project management professional with an excellent track record delivering highly complex system and service improvement solutions across multiple industries such as rail, telecommunications, highways, utilities, and the public sector.
Starting his career as a technician, Paul has extensive operational experience and excellent working practices, with the ability to adapt to new systems and customer processes to ensure complex projects are delivered on time, on budget and with five-star customer satisfaction.
Paul enjoys being part of, as well as managing, motivating, training, and developing successful and productive teams to thrive in highly pressurised and challenging working environments.
Bryan Bennett
Account Director
Bryan Bennett joined the Goldratt UK team in 2024. He is a dynamic and motivated Chartered Engineer with a proven track record of rolling stock refurbishment, system installation, corrosion repair and design. Bryan excels in generating and building relationships, managing projects from concept to completion, designing engineering strategies, and coaching individuals to success.
Skilled in building cross-functional teams, Bryan demonstrates exceptional communication skills. Bryan is an adaptable and transformational leader with an ability to work independently, creating effective presentations, and developing opportunities that further establish organisational goals.
At Goldratt UK Bryan is fundamental in collaborating with senior management teams to deliver results and drive business growth.
Michael Grace
Account Director
Michael Grace joined the Goldratt UK team in 2024. He draws on 40 years’ experience in leadership, project delivery, consultancy and business development, leading businesses in the UK and Australia. He has successfully undertaken post-merger integration, and played a key role in growing a £100M business on four continents.
Michael is responsible for working closely with clients to drive results and deliver business growth. He focuses on client satisfaction, staff engagement and operational excellence to successfully deliver projects for clients and to ensure effective collaboration.
Steve Bebbington
Steve has had over 25 years of experience across multiple sectors, delivering strategic initiatives including customer effectiveness, standardised ERP systems, SAP integrations, as well as multiple continuous improvement programmes. Having held senior management positions within organisations across the UK and Europe, Steve has motivated teams to deliver a shared vision. He has ensured the successful delivery of a variety of complex projects through the application of well-established methodologies (e.g. Waterfall, Agile, Theory of Constraints). These tools and techniques have empowered teams within market-leading organisations.
Steve joined Goldratt UK's Operations team in 2022. Previously he has worked as an Agile Delivery Manager for Lloyds Banking Group, European Business Change Manager during two major programmes at ESAB, National Business Manager at CEMEX UK Operations and held Commercial Management roles at Tarmac Quarry Products after successfully completing the Tarmac UK Graduate Training programme.
