RWY Consultants in business processes and IT training

It is our job to understand business concepts and using our skill and experience to distil, in a pragmatic and critical way, how these concepts can be useful. We then communicate these concepts to our customers.

We achieve this knowledge transfer in such a way as to make our customers use of these concepts as easy and natural as breathing. This assimilation of knowledge will help the individual to improve, both as a person and as an effective member of their organisation. They will also have lots of fun doing it.

The senior members of the team:

Bob Yorke - CEO and Principal management consultant

Bob has worked since he was 15, starting as a trade apprentice with British Aerospace. He completed his training as an aeronautical engineer and moved into the Information Technology Department after completing his Masters degree. He then held jobs in various IT roles for Philips UK, Thomas Lockers in Warrington, Grand Metropolitan and finally as Director of IT Services for the Greenall's Group, running a large IBM mainframe site employing over 100 IT professionals. In 1988, Bob left the Greenall's group and formed RWY Associates - now RWY Consultants Ltd.

Chris Moulding - Principal Microsoft Office specialist

Chris has a Diploma in Systems Analysis and Certificates in training and education. He began work with Thomas Locker Holdings in Warrington as an Assistant Buyer, but moved into the IT section to work for Bob in 1979. He then moved on to hold IT management positions with Regentruck, Central Edible Oils, and Vantrunk Engineering. In 1993, he set up his own consultancy specialising in Microsoft Office and European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) training and consultancy; his customers included INEOS, Christian Salvesen, and Sutton Logistics. Chris joined RWY in January 2004.

Alan Petchey - Senior Management consultant

Alan has a BA in Education and Mathematics. Alan began work as a maths teacher moving to the US computer company Unisys as a specialist trainer. He then set up a training and consultancy business with another Unisys consultant specialising in computer and management topics. He specialises in general management and Microsoft Office and currently is working on conflict management and customer care training for several of the new rail companies. Alan became an associate of RWY in 1995. Alan and Bob have worked together on many assignments notably with NatWest Bank, Unisys and the Alliance and Leicester Bank, where Alan and Bob are joint tutors on the Project Leadership Training Programme.

Hilary Tong - Senior Microsoft Office consultant

Hilary holds an HND in interior design, a diploma in computer programming, is a certified training professional and is a Microsoft Certified Professional trainer. She began working on interior design, but then changed careers into IT. Hilary work as a programmer for William Jackson on retail systems for supermarkets from 1979, then as a systems analyst for Image Data Systems from 1982. In 1984, she emigrated to Australia and worked there for 5-years as a Support Analyst Programmer, returning to the UK to become Corporate Training Manager at Kingston upon Hull City Council in 1989, a position she held until 2002. She then set up her own training and consultancy business focusing on Microsoft Office and European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) and Photoshop. She became an associate of RWY in 2003.

Alan Fox - I.T. Specialist

Alan has worked since he was 18, initially training as a Quantity Surveyor, before moving into I.T. after 12 months. Alan joined Greenall Whitley in 1977 as a mainframe operator and became a programmer 12 months later. Following 10 years of programming and business systems analysis on IBM mainframe computers, Alan moved over to IBM AS400 mid-range systems within the company and became support manager for a team of five support specialists. In 1992 Alan became Business Systems Manager for the De Vere Hotel Division of the Greenall Group, being responsible for the I.T. development, support and associated accounting and administration tasks. Since 2000 Alan also held the roles of Technical Services Manager, Project Manager and Village Hotel Brand Manager. Alan left the De Vere Group in 2005 and joined RWY as I.T. specialist.