Dev Sharma

Dev's innate ability to see the bigger picture - being aware of the wood as well as the trees - is a long-established trait, and complements his business analysis skill in evaluating successful and unsuccessful processes, in order to define the best route for a project.   His success has come from combining expert business process analysis skills and exceptional change management experience, with rigorous programme and project management, whilst maintaining the right levels of communication and stakeholder engagement.  Dev brings energy, innovation, creativity, strong analytical capability, and leadership to his clients. He has delivered globally, across locations including the UK, France, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Hong Kong, Spain, Italy and the USA - in Seattle, New York and Boston.  He builds strong relationships and lasting trust at all levels of an organisation and excells at engaging people and ensuring their buy-in to a project.  Dev is driven, and maintains a passionate, uncompromising and dedicated approach to his work. 

His general business experience and project management skills stem from an early age, through exposure to his father's sheet-metal engineering company in his early teens.  He worked within the firm in parallel with secondary school, from the age of 13, learning to interpret technical drawings and operate specialist machinery.  He was also able expand his business knowledge in a different direction, by assisting with his mother's fashion boutique: "The two extremes of light engineering and fashion sales certainly provided plenty of opportunity to hone project management and sales skills, while helping to build self-confidence!" 

His tertiary education entailed an industrial-experience year, which saw Dev working for Motorola in Germany and the UK, with his responsibilities quickly rising to project-management level.  Dev then studied for his Masters in Business Management at Warwick under Professor Bhattacharyya, renowned for the establishment of the WMG (Warwick Manufacturing Group).  The WMG acts as an important bridge between academia and industry, and Dev was one of its original consultancy recruits, working on DTi-funded time-based strategies for organisations such as British Airways, Lucas Industries, Rover Group and Short Brothers.  With projects involving high-level change and resource management, the emphasis was always on bottom-line improvement.  In parallel to this, Dev studied for his Engineering Doctorate (Eng.D), before being moving to Ernst & Young.

The two years spent at Ernst & Young during the late 1990s, followed by Barclays, gave Dev significant experience of the financial sector, in which he then worked as an independent consultant for several years, before diversifying into local authority and central government projects within the public sector.  It was whilst working as an independent consultant, that his path crossed that of Aerice co-director Stuart Owers, in 2005.  Dev's career path is exemplified by high-level change and programme management - delivering change across business process transformation and IT implementation, working typically at board level to help define corporate objectives, and translating these into projects that deliver tangible results and benefits.  

Behind the Scenes

Dev's sporting strategies encompass a similar love of motor racing to co-director Stuart, as well as football, and a particularly keen interest in golf.  He has recently taken up karting again, and has never lost his enthusiasm for good food and wine.  This is finely balanced by a healthy-body/healthy-mind approach to diet, nutrition and fitness, which he takes seriously.  Married with two young children, who provide him with constant motivation and inspiration, he has his feet firmly on the ground - adopting a no-nonsense, get up and go attitude to all aspects of his working and personal life.