Meet the Team.
The people behind Engage.
The Engage family is currently over 50 strong and continues to grow. Our team have a huge variety of proven backgrounds, but they all have in common the ambition to give the best support and advice to their clients.
Sarah Elliott
Finance Administrator
Sarah started working for Engage in February 2020 after previously working in Hospitality and Finance.
Jim Pirrie
Principal Consultant
Jim is a highly successful Programme and Project Manager with professional skills in delivery of C4ISR Information Technology, Through-Life Support Solutions, Business Transformation and Change within the UK Defence sector.
Paul Bennetts
Principal Consultant
Paul is a forward thinking, highly skilled Project Engineer with a full understanding of the military structure having completed 26 years in a demanding and diverse career within the Ministry of Defence (MoD) Army.
James Clark
Senior Consultant
James is a Defence Supply Chain expert with 20 years’ experience in a wide variety of roles within this complex business area, including Disposals, Data Analysis, Logistic Information Systems delivery and a Tri-Service Supply Chain Manager.
Leanne Bolton
Programme Support Manager
Leanne joined Engage as an Office Administrator in September 2018 after working as an Administrator for the NHS. Leanne quickly demonstrated her skillset and was promoted to Office Manager in November 2018.
Jason Silver
Senior Consultant
After a 12-year career in the REME as a Vehicle Mechanic Jason joined Engage in 2019.
Natalie Wood
Finance Director
After graduating from Cardiff University in Accounting and Finance, Natalie joined the company in September 2013 as the Book-keeper.
David Gagen
Managing Director
David is a former Army Officer who served in the Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers (REME) from 1986-2007. A professionally qualified engineer David had a varied career serving all over the world including Hong Kong and Oman.
Joe Buckley
Operations Manager
Joseph Buckley initially worked as a Senior Consultant before promoting to Principal Consultant within Engage as a project manager within Defence. He has now become the Operations Manager within Engage HQ, Leading the Operations Department to ensure the smooth running of our Projects, Resource, Recruitment and Onboarding processes.
Carrie Allen
Senior Consultant | Recruitment Co-ordinator | Knowledge Management Lead
Carrie recently left the British Army after 15 years in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. She recently completed her BSc (HONS) in Engineering Management at an open university.
Karina Pearce
Operations Director
Karina initially worked at Engage as a consultant and was appointed as the Operations Director in January 2022.
David Sullivan
Principal Consultant
David Sullivan joined the British Army in 1978 directly from the Army sponsored Welbeck College and joined the Royal Corps of Signals in 1979.
John Foster
Capability Director
John served as an REME officer in the British Army for over 19 years qualifying as an aircraft engineer and logistic staff officer, deploying on operational tours to the Balkans, Middle East and Northern Ireland.
Our Associates.
Working closely with the Engage team.
To meet our clients’ diverse and specialist requirements, we can call on over 100 Associates. All have been carefully selected using the same exacting interview process as the permanent Engage team, and many of them have worked with Engage over numerous years.
Kate Harper
Associate
Kate Harper is a professionally qualified Learning Development Consultant and ex-Army Officer with extensive experience of working with public, private and voluntary sector organisations.