ABOUT US
Relay was founded in 1992 by Anne-Marie Saunders and Alex Clark. Two years of ground-breaking change-management work within Hewlett Packard was the stimulus for establishing the business.

At the heart of this work was integrating strategic business depth with, business process expertise and deep people insight in order to make change happen.

Long and deep client relationships have continued to characterise Relay’s work.

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Anne-Marie Saunders - Director
Anne-Marie is a founding Director of Relay. She specialises in organisational change and has successfully designed and facilitated large scale change programmes over the past 20 years. She brings insight, humour, and movement to tough organisational situations. She is an expert facilitator, management developer, and a valued mentoring partner for executive, senior and middle managers. She is highly skilled in the field of conflict resolution. Anne-Marie began her career as an adult educationalist. She went on to study Individual and Organisational Development at Emerson College in Sussex. She has worked at partner level over the past 20 years in British and Dutch consultancy firms. Anne-Marie has delivered creative and ground breaking interventions at both a strategic and operational level.

Alex Clark - Director
Alex is a founding Director of Relay. She specialises in innovation and organisational change. Alex started her work in this field some 16 years ago as an HP strategy leader responsible for halving new product break-even time. Alex brings thoughtfulness, vision, energy and creativity to her work. She has a reputation for finding connections within complex situations, and pragmatic ways to results. Alex has led Relay’s business strategy for the past five years. She has driven the transfer of Relay’s consulting methodologies and knowledge into intuitive, pragmatic and innovative tools, platforms and e-learning. These are now a critical and integral part of our consulting approach and help clients deliver change every day. Alex has a BSc(Hons) in Mechanical Engineering, an MBA with Distinction and is a chartered engineer.

Peter Doughty – Non-Executive Director
Peter is a Chief Executive and Director with experience in both Blue Chip and Early Stage Technology businesses. He has a successful track record of fund raising from UK Venture Capital and European High Net Worths.  Peter is an expert strategic planner and tornado-growth business manager.  He brings a wealth of senior B2B sales and marketing experience of all major global markets from his extensive tenure on Hewlett-Packard’s worldwide management team.

Glen Saunders – Non-Executive Director
Glen is a chartered accountant, experienced strategic manager and entrepreneur.  He has managed complex IT developments, developed innovative products and services, and successfully led three successful start-up businesses.  As Chief-Executive of Triodos Bank, Glen led its 16-fold growth over six years and set up its UK operations and corporate finance services.  Glen deepens Relay’s strategic and financial depth and brings pragmatic and innovative approaches to the business.