Meet The Team

Our team work with SME’s and large organisations as well as speak at keynotes and events.

Chris Paton

Managing Director

Chris is the founder and Managing Director of Quirk Solutions. What he loves more than anything, is to bring people together to collaborate and solve seemingly intractable problems. He also likes helping to make sense out of chaos and see the relief on people’s faces when alignment is achieved.

In his former career, Chris was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Marines and advisor to the UK Cabinet and National Security Council on the Afghan strategy. He saw active service in a wide range of places including Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Georgia and Afghanistan.

Kate Philp

Senior Consultant

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Siddhartha Jain

Consultant

Roderic Yapp

Senior Consultant

Nick Francis

Senior Consultant

Graham Smith

Senior Consultant

Tony Page

Operations Manager

Tony is an Operations Manager at Quirk Solutions. He has a strong passion for consulting – encountering modern problems, finding innovative solutions to them and thinking outside the box to help businesses’ performance when they need it the most.

Tony studied International Business Management at undergraduate level, before moving to the Luiss University in Rome to study Economics, Money and Banking. Following this, he worked in cybersecurity and as a financial analyst at BP, alongside studying alternative investments with Harvard Business School.

He is currently pursuing a Masters in Banking and Finance at the University of St Andrews, as well as a charter in Banking and in Financial Analysis. For his thesis, he is focusing on business wargaming and its specific use case within SMEs, particularly facilitated through consulting.

Adam Sturgeon

Commercial Manager

Adam is a Commercial Manager at Quirk Solutions. He focuses on managing sales within a business context, driving tangible impact on overall success.

Adam started out studying business management at the University of Aberdeen, before joining Team Aberdeen University (TAU) Racing’s business team, working on developing a business model for a Formula Student car.

Motivated by expanding his horizons around strategy and organisational change, he is now taking the skills that he learned from these experiences and applying them to his work at Quirk. 

Michelle Turberville

Senior Consultant

Michelle is a Senior Consultant at Quirk Solutions. In her role, she is focused on enhancing communication, with a particular passion for facilitating those ‘lightbulb’ moments.

Starting out off as a graphic design assistant, Michelle then joined the Ministry of Defence as a Geospatial Analyst, where she stayed for the next 19 years. In the second half of her time at the MOD, she went into the Learning and Development section to train new recruits and has not left L&D since. After the MOD, she briefly worked in an NHS Trust in their Organisational Development and Learning section, before joining Quirk.

Michelle is an Insights Practitioner, and in a previous role successfully delivered an Insights programme throughout her entire organisation.

Nick Page

Senior Consultant

Veronica Ricketts

Personal Assistant

Vee joined the team at Quirk Solutions in January 2017. Her main role is Personal Assistant to Chris Paton and she also supports the other members of the Quirk Team with logistics and travel.

Vee started her career as a Sales and Marketing Secretary within a BMW dealership before progressing to Volvo Car UK Ltd as Personal Assistant to the Finance Director and Financial Controller. During her career, she gained a wealth of experience within the corporate world.

Being a born leader, she adds to her work/life experience a working holiday travelling around Australia as a temporary secretary working in many of its cities. She thrives on new challenges and whilst leaving her work to start a family, Vee facilitated with the project management of a children’s playground and also assisted as Press Officer/Secretary on various school PTA committees (as one does when the children are small) to help with their much-needed fundraising.

Chris Middleton

Board Advisor

Jim Pascoe

Board Advisor

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