Edward Hickman
Care Board: Chair
Transport Board: Chair
Group Board: Chair
Edward has enjoyed a nearly thirty-year consultancy career in which the focus of his work has
always been on supporting organisations with the design and implementation of their
development plans. He is a founding partner of ATQ Consultants LLP and is an expert in the
public services industry and developments around the provision of front-line public services
in particular.
Prior to founding ATQ, Edward’s consultancy career has been both in‐house and for external
consultancies. For example, he spent three years from 2009 to 2012 running the corporate
development and consultancy arm of a major front line public services provider specialising
in welfare to work. In an earlier part of his career, he spent four years in‐house designing
and implementing a major corporate re‐organisation which changed a large recruitment
business from one to six separate trading entities. At the other end of the scale, he has been
involved in start‐up organisations in the health sector and numerous small-scale assignments
supporting organisations with their development plans. In the last ten years, this has
involved many due diligence assignments on behalf of investors reviewing opportunities
across the public services industry.
Edward has a BA (Hons) Economics from York University and an MBA from IESE (Barcelona).
He is married with one son and lives in SW London.