Expertise – Integrity – Resource Management – Results
Tony Copsey
Managing Director
Having spent over 25 years involved in rugby, both on and off the field, Tony is well equipped to provide business solutions in the world of sport. On completing a BA Hons degree in Sports Science, he spent over 14 years as a top-class professional rugby player, playing for Saracens, Llanelli Scarlets and for Wales at international level.
Following his playing days, he spent over 11 years in the commercial, marketing and operations arena of professional rugby. Previous roles include: CEO at London Wasps, managing director at Harlequins, CEO at London Scottish, CEO at London Welsh, and sales and marketing manager at the Llanelli Scarlets. Tony has also served on the board of Premiership Rugby and on numerous working groups within the sport.
More recently, apart from continuing his work in the sporting sector, he has lead several performance coaching and business improvement projects with 4th Dimension Expert Resource.
John Putt
Executive Consultancy
Although primarily considered to be an expert in world-class manufacturing, John’s experience covers the complete spectrum of corporate activity. During his 20 years’ career in automotive engineering, John became preferred supplier of Rover, Honda, Nissan and Toyota and recognised as a significant Western pupil of the Toyota Production System.
Since then he has focused on a variety of consultancy roles across a wide range of sectors. He established and ran the Production System Design Centre for McKinsey and joined Jordan Grand Prix as chief operating officer. John now combines a number of exec and non-exec positions with his consultancy roles.
Jenny Sjollema
Executive Assistant
Jenny has over 20 years’ experience in office management, PA support, sales and marketing positions. She has knowledge of working in a variety of different sectors, across the private and public sectors, having worked for Psion Computers, T-Mobile and Essex County Council. With a Level 3 Diploma in Digital Marketing, she also enjoys working with social media.
She is a keen organiser, professional, tenacious and enjoys a challenge, which has included a sky dive and the London Marathon. She is married with one son and in her spare time she enjoys sailing & skiing.
Behnaz Rayati
Accounting & Finance
Behnaz completed a degree in Accounting and Finance and is qualified as a Certified Chartered Accountant (ACCA). She has worked in numerous different industries providing financial and accounting services including Retail, Luxury Fashion, Recruitment, B2Bs, IT Support, Property Development, PR and charities. Her vast experience Working in different organisations has provided Behnaz with business awareness on top of her financial knowledge, this has been exceptionally valuable in her career.
Behnaz has a passion for helping businesses with their financial reporting and providing tailor made services. In her spare time, Behnaz enjoys watching movies, trying new recipes, travelling and keeping fit.
Mark Soden
Elite Performance
Following a successful career playing for Northampton Saints in the Guinness Premiership, Mark has established a reputation as a hugely respected performance coach specialising in leadership, team and individual development.
His unique blend of sporting and commercial experience has given Mark a unique insight into the challenges and behavioural needs of the corporate and elite sporting environments, transferring these skills into the personal development, culture-change and team-building needs of organisations at every level, from small businesses through to large corporations.
Mike Shreeve
HR and Performance Consultancy
Bringing a different and complementary perspective to 4th Dimension’s performance coaching, Mike’s background is in corporate human resources and strategic performance planning.
Previously Mike was an HR director specialising in advising partnerships on how to develop their staff and leadership. He set up RSM Tenon’s external HR consulting business, assisting SMEs with their HR outsourcing and strategy. Mike combines properly applied HR systems, coaching strategies, psychometric techniques and neurolinguistic programming to unleash individual potential and develop leadership and staff performance.
Paul Fox
Lead Consultant
Paul has 40 years in management and director roles for major manufacturing based companies across a wide range of disciplines and sizes. He has been a director and shareholder in an MBO delivering a 66 times increase on investment and started a successful specialist plastics business producing filtration for medical and scientific from scratch, developing customer base and operational disciplines.
He has managed building projects taking from concept to conclusion completing these with the equipment installations to improve efficiency, quality, capacity and safety, working with customers quality departments to conclude FMEA analysis and improve product safety. Paul works very effectively with sales teams to develop product and service offerings in line with market needs and provides company leadership through significant change giving caring support to all staff.
Wayne Brazier
Industry Consultancy
Having worked within high technology, analytical, engineering products and services for the manufacturing and repair and overhaul sectors, Wayne brings a wealth of strategic and tactical manufacturing skills with in-depth international knowledge and a proven track record in process development and sustained bottom line business growth. He has held senior operational roles at board level in the UK, Canada, Europe and China.
Customer-oriented and focused on delivering operational excellence, Wayne is a fluent communicator, who can successfully manage differing personalities and cultural differences within a group.
Ed Tapp
Lead Consultant
Ed has over 10 years’ experience in logistics and manufacturing, particularly within large FMCG companies. His specialist areas include: supply chain, inventory management, manufacturing, project management and systems & software optimisation, where he is able to evolve the latest innovations and ideas into a client’s existing systems.
He works closely with a client team by advancing their learning through challenging and stimulating process modelling to support them in designing, testing and implementing the optimal system and process solution. Ed holds a PhD in Biotechnology and genetics from Durham University.
Adrian Frost
Lead Consultant
Adrian has over 30 years in management roles for major manufacturing based corporates, with a strong project management and industrial engineering background. His broad experience enables Adrian to support clients achieve on time deliveries every time to the desired quality standard.
He has delivered multiple projects, on time and within budget, pproviding leadership, coaching and guidance to ensure change programme embedded and sustained. Adrian specialist areas include design and implementation of manufacturing shop floor layout changes; meticulous labour work measurement and method study.
He is a keen supporter of his local football team and horse racing.
Peter Bleeze
Health & Safety Consultant
Peter is an IOSH Charted Health and Safety Consultant with over 20 years’ experience delivering H&S Consultancy and training. Accredited to deliver and assess over 60 distinct areas, Peter has a wide range of knowledge and hands on experience across small and large companies, multiple sectors.
This gives Peter a unique ability to see things that most people could miss by bringing knowledge and best practises from other industries to yours. This combined with a pragmatic implementation approach makes Peter an excellent fit to help clients with their Health and Safety and deliver a tailor made solution to meet your compliance needs.
Mark Dawson
Lead Consultant
Mark has over 30 years experience in demanding quality driven manufacturing environment, within automotive, aviation and industrial sectors. He specialises in plant, manufacturing and facilities management, utilising the lean toolbox to reduce waste and drive improvement. Mark is industrious, decisive and energetic with a positive can do attitude in getting results to a given timescale.
He has a proven track record in delivering significant cost savings through continuous improvement activities. He will ensure the right people are in the right positions to deliver sustained improvements to the business and is full trained in project management systems to deliver this.
When not working Mark is can be found restoring Lambretta’s scooters, vintage petrol pumps, collecting vintage automobilia and travelling.