Maarten Kalk

A repeat entrepreneur that built one of the foremost digital transformation consultancies in Europe working alongside boards and executives creating industry defining outcomes with Aston Martin, JK Rowling, ASOS and Allianz. Now focused on creating market leading time to value to our clients.

A serial entrepreneur with 30 years of legal and finance experience, Anita has shaped and delivered complex strategic deals across at the intersection of technology and professional services. Now central to how we structure our value-driven client partnerships.

A repeat entrepreneur who grew up in data as it moved to the forefront of enterprise change, leading data strategy at Nike, Shell, Heineken, and Vodafone. Rad built his career providing trusted advisory to executive leaders. Now leading Valliance in the Netherlands and taking that same ethos into our client partnerships creating mutual success.

A repeat entrepreneur and leading full-stack architect who was one of the forefathers of the composable architecture movement. He has built flexible systems for LEGO, IKEA, Burberry, and Moderna, and is now at the edge of multi-agent architectures, steering AI towards meaningful outcomes whilst meeting strict regulatory standards.

A seasoned technology consultant and delivery leader who's partnered with clients including New Era Cap, Canadian Tire, and one of the largest American investment firms, delivering complex solutions and driving operating model transformations. At Valliance, Volha is ensuring that every solution is shaped and delivered to maximise value creation for our clients.

One of Palantir's founding UK engineers, Chris spent 14 years as a Forward Deployed Engineer growing the UK public sector practice from a six-person team into one of the most significant technology partnerships with the British government. Before that, Chris spent five years as a Senior Software Engineer in the UK Government, specialising in high-speed signal analysis. Now at Valliance, he's applying that same conviction to help clients transform their business.

A senior delivery leader who turns complex data into operational outcomes across law enforcement, financial regulation, investment banking, and enterprise technology. He spent nearly a decade at Palantir Technologies leading some of the UK Government's most demanding programmes. Now at Valliance, bringing that cross-sector depth to help clients achieve measurable value from AI.

Victoria has spent more than 15 years leading marketing and growth for digital and technology businesses. She started in PR, shaping go-to-market strategies and building the profiles of agencies and technology start-ups, before joining leadership teams at Improve Digital, TH_NK and EPAM. Most recently she built and launched Empathy Lab, EPAM's AI-native agency, taking the brand and go-to-market strategy global.

A seasoned full-stack engineer and architect who has led complex enterprise architecture transformations for LEGO and Burberry. Now building agentic AI solutions that eliminate systemic bottlenecks whilst preserving human judgment for complex problem-solving.

A Value Engineer with deep expertise in natural language processing and enterprise solution architecture. His career spans financial services, government, retail, healthcare, and consultancy environments. Now bringing that same ability to operate at the intersection of technical depth and measurable business value to help clients build production-grade AI that holds up in the real world.

With 15 years building ecommerce platforms at production grade, James was Games Workshop's first eCommerce Architect, scaling their platform from inception to support sustained growth and extreme traffic spikes. Now at Valliance, he's focused on building reusable engineering foundations that deliver lasting value for clients.

A data and AI engineer who's helped shape some of the UK's most demanding public sector programmes, from NHS England's Federated Data Platform to Ministry of Defence enterprise architecture. He pairs deep Palantir Foundry expertise with the commercial instinct of a Chartered Accountant. Now at Valliance, he's turning complex, underused data into systems that hold up under operational pressure.

A technology leader who has spent more than fifteen years rising from software engineer to Director of Technology Solutions inside a global engineering and consulting firm. Now at Valliance, he's helping clients turn hard engineering problems into systems that deliver measurable value.

A recognised UX leader that has produced pioneering work from luxury to government services and banking. BIMA100 member and TEDx speaker now helping enterprises design AI interactions that balance empathy, creativity, with business thinking.

An accomplished creative director who's shaped digital experiences for Virgin Atlantic, Microsoft, and the UK's first digital-only bank. Recognised at BIMA, D&AD, and New York Festivals. Now bridging brand thinking and user empathy to design transformative AI experiences that create positive impact for both business and people.

Customer Success Lead who's built trusted partnerships with BlackBerry, Knight Frank, Ford , and Vue Cinemas by treating client success as her own. Now guiding transformational relationships built on shared outcomes.

Cian is an economics graduate who injects bold curiosity and an AI-native mindset to our team. Now he is proving that meaningful impact doesn't require decades of experience, just clear thinking, problem-solving, and willingness to learn fast.

An accomplished program & operations manager who's previously held core roles at Spotify, Bumble, and Warner Music Group, Julia specialises in delivery, operations, orchestration, and strategy. At Valliance, she plays a central role in coordinating across client and internal teams, streamlining communication, clarifying responsibilities, and keeping programmes firmly on track.

She's spent a decade turning complex technology programmes into measurable business outcomes, most recently as a Director at JLL Technologies where she built a cross-functional team and shipped a platform to more than 700 users. Now at Valliance, she's applying that same delivery rigour to help clients move from strategy to scale.

A management trainee accountant whose career has scaled alongside some of the UK's most recognisable consumer and technology brands, from Fever-Tree to Houzz. Now at Valliance, she's applying that operational discipline to keep the business running sharply as it grows.

A practitioner with 20 years working in financial services transformation, not advising from the outside, but embedded inside the programmes where the real decisions get made and the real risks get taken. Ahmed built his career removing the hidden friction that stalls $100M+ programmes. Now bringing that same surgical precision to help Valliance's clients turn strategic ambition into measurable outcomes.

Ivo spent a decade at Nike EMEA leading organisations of up to 400 people across supply chain Operations, technology, and analytics. Now with Valliance, he brings that operational depth to clients facing their most complex supply chain transformations. His take is direct: "Transformation in supply chain has to start with operational reality, not technology hype.”

A strategy and transformation leader with 24 years' experience building digital products and scaling innovation programmes across Accenture, Fjord, Red Badger, Zone and Cognizant. He co-founded Volta, named in Time's Best Inventions 2021 and ranked #34 in the UK Startup 100 2023. He now works with Valliance as an Associate Partner, alongside running 2045, a human-first, AI-amplified operating system for strategy and innovation.

He's spent 25+ years building and leading enterprise platforms. From core software and data through to AI/ML, GenAI, and the knowledge graph and neuro-symbolic AI layer that makes them explainable at scale, architected across AWS, GCP and OCI. Now with Valliance, he brings the same leadership to clients who need AI that reasons, explains, and scales with trust.

Twenty-five years redesigning how global enterprises work, across complex organisations such as Shell, Novartis, Roche, Sanofi and Siemens. Now collaborating with Valliance, he's helping them rethink how work itself gets structured when AI can help to transform the operating model.

Dr. Harald Gunia is an AI research expert at the intersection of advanced AI, enterprise systems, and responsible innovation. With 36 years of experience across 10+ industries and 30+ business functions, he brings a rare ability to connect deep technical design with real-world business impact.