About Us
There are leagues of management consultants; Dashler was established to be different. Dashler is uncompromising in its commitment to delivering; combined with clarity, organisation and great care and respect for our teams and those of our clients. Uncompromising means, for us, deciding on the priorities and then acting on them, hard. The complication is that we can’t just focus on priorities, we have to de-prioritise too; helping clients to identify the sometimes-painful sacrifices – the secondary priorities we have to abandon – if we are actually to do what we say we want to do. This means believing in the priorities enough to believe in the sacrifices too, and making them ruthlessly. We call this Radical Delivery.
We apply these approaches repeatedly for the companies we work with. Our clients trust us to help and empower their teams to get things done, particularly in stressed environments or where the stakes are high.
Our work is independent, creative, and always respectful and caring of our client’s teams; our goal is to help you, no matter the size of your company or project, to deliver radically too.
Our Founder – Dr Daniel Maxwell
Daniel has worked on high-stakes and high-profile projects valued in billions, such as the London Olympics and the Tottenham Hotspur Football Club stadium; with blue-chip companies such as AXA Health; and with start-ups, whose budgets are smaller but whose goals are just as critical for the contexts they are in. His PhD, from the University of Exeter, was largely on the factors that enable efficient delivery in unpredictable and changeable environments.
He has been a lecturer in software and data science, worked for the University of Exeter helping companies to commercialise research, and has built, and exited, his own companies. As a consultant for nearly 20 years, Daniel has a long history of helping companies to plan and deliver projects, building supportive, motivated, high-performing teams. He works with companies to ensure they deliver on their goals.
Our Leadership and Expertise Panel
Roman Pichler
Author of three books on product leadership – Strategize, How to Lead in Product Management, and Agile Product Management with Scrum; and advisor to major corporations on product leadership, including Adidas, Allianz, Bosch, EA, FT.com, HSBC, Google, Philips, SAP, Sainsbury, and Siemens;
Prof. Mark Kelson
Professor of Statistics, former Co-Director of the Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, and an editor for Statistical Methods in Medical Research.
Russ Miles
Author of eight books on Software Development, including Learning Chaos Engineering, Digitalization of Financial Services in the Age of Cloud and Head First Software Development; and specialist in Software Engineering, Financial Services and resilience.
Richard Hadden
A Venture Capital Investor who has invested in, advised on and overseen strategy for dozens of B2B and IoT investments, and guided multiple portfolio companies to acquisition by major corporations.
Rick Gambetta
Advisor on finance, structuring, debt and equity-raising, and corporate governance; former Director of Securitisation at ING and Head of Commercial Real Estate Securitisation and Loan Syndication at Bank of Scotland. Partner at financial advisory for sustainable energy firm greenCrowd, and MD of Corporate Finance Advisory firm Hexagon Finance and Advisory.
Ian Birch
Former Head of Digital Transformation at Xerox, specialist in compliance, cyber security, data protection and risk mitigation, and founder of ISO compliance training platform ISOWise.
Gary Zorko
Executive coach in leadership, culture and technology; former senior leader or C-level executive in several Silicon Valley corporations and startups, including The Walt Disney Company.
George Berkowski
Author of How to Build a Billion Dollar App, and multiple-exited entrepreneur and investor who has founded, built and scaled a number of award-winning marketplace, fintech, e-commerce and mobile businesses including Augmented Reality technology platform DeepAR, MRRMRR App, HAILO (taxi services acquired by Daimler), and WooMe (acquired by Zoosk).