Our Team at
Mangrove Consulting

Our Team

The people behind Mangrove

Nick Pye - Mangrove Consulting

Nick Pye

Founding Partner

Career-long strategy and marketing consultant in a diverse range of markets, with deep expertise in FMCG businesses helping set stretching ambitions and deliver on them. Nick Co-wrote Stretchonomics and has launched several start-ups of his own, bringing a founder’s perspective to every challenge.

Justin Wright - Mangrove Consulting

Justin Wright

Founding Partner

Innovation leader whose career runs from the innovation units at P&G and Diageo to advisory spanning drinks, financial services and agri-science. Justin has funded and co-founded a number of start-ups as well as co-authoring Stretchonomics, and combines an understanding of consumer psychology with a practical sense of what it takes to get new ideas to market.

Duncan Palmer - Mangrove Consulting

Duncan Palmer

Head of Innovation

Strategy and innovation specialist, taking ideas from early thinking to market-ready products across consumer goods categories. Knows what it takes to make innovation stick.

Sam Ako - Mangrove Consulting

Sam Ako

Head of Partnerships

Partnerships and business development lead, connecting Mangrove with the FMCG brands it works with. Builds relationships from first conversation to lasting partnership.

Charlie Chidley - Mangrove Consulting

Charlie Chidley

Director

Brand growth expertise across FMCG, combining a creative agency background with experience leading consulting projects across markets, and helping brands build cultural relevance that translates into commercial results. Uses creative thinking with consumer insight to turn big brand ideas into measurable growth.

Georgina Curtis - Mangrove Consulting

Georgina Curtis

Head of Strategy

Extensive FMCG experience, with a focus on food & beverage, retail and new category entry – advising business through complex strategic decisions. Combines commercial ambition with a pragmatic approach to execution.

Claire James - Mangrove Consulting

Claire James

Head of Sustainability

Sustainability leader with deep FMCG experience across finance, strategy and M&A. Helps businesses approach sustainability as a driver of performance and growth, with a strong commercial case behind every recommendation.

Simon Cross - Mangrove Consulting

Simon Cross

Creative Lead

Simon is a creative designer with over 20 years experience in digital and print graphics. Simon started his career in agencies working on blue chip clients such as the DSG Group and Disney, with skills spanning from graphic website design to video editing. Most recently Simon has moved into the film & TV industry, creating graphics for commercials and movies such as Point Break and Rush. Simon ensures Mangrove’s output is as creative as it is rigorous.

Alec Rasmussen - Mangrove Consulting

Alec Rasmussen

Co-Founder - Challenger Edge

Working in partnership with Mangrove Consulting, we have a track record of helping some of the world’s best known consumer brands turn their mission, culture and values into measurable daily attitudes & behaviours that drive human performance. And we make these intangibles, tangible.

Want to find out more about what we do?

To find out more about what we do and how we can help, get in touch with the team.