Anna is a Principal Consultant at Q5 based in our Leeds office. Anna specialises in growth strategy and execution, and has worked with multiple clients to design organisations that generate sustainable, long-term, strategic value. Anna has worked with clients of all shapes and sizes and has deep expertise in working with VC and PE backed businesses to accelerate organic and inorganic growth.
Prior to joining Q5 Anna was Head of Operations for the large-cap fund of Europe’s leading software investor where she led a range of strategy and organisation design initiatives for portfolio businesses, specialising in M&A and Integration. Before moving into the world of Private Equity, Anna spent 7 years at Capita, working across a number of transformation projects in the public and private sector and supporting Capita to integrate acquisitions made in the German-speaking market. Anna was also part of the founding team of Capita’s corporate venture unit and oversaw equity partnerships with multiple early stage B2B businesses. During this time Anna took a year out to try her hand as an operator, working as Head of Operations for a technology start-up in Spain which is where she discovered her passion for fixing organisational challenges.
During her time at Q5, Anna has worked in a range of sectors and loves working collaboratively with clients to find simple solutions to complex problems, helping people to understand how they can work together to make their organisations work better.
Anna has a first-class degree from the University of Cambridge in German and Italian and has additional qualifications in Leadership & Management and Change Management. Outside of work you’ll find her out walking in the Yorkshire Dales or knocking up a new outfit on her sewing machine.