about

Founded in 2016 our vision is to be the best partner to support your Digital Transformation.

Blue Hat is owned and run by its partners. All experts in their field, they lead from the front working on client sites. We trade on our reputation. We solve problems for our clients with teams who love to collaborate.

Our strength is our people.

We host regular meetups across the City and West End – a chance to meet with other consultants and associates.
Please get in touch if you'd like to join the Blue Hat revolution.

Steve Chittenden
Steve Chittenden
Partner: Banking & Payments

Steve started his career working as a business management in Transaction Banking. He has spent the last 15 years as Product Owner and Business Analysis across Retail, Commercial and Investment Banking clients.

Marcus De’Freitas
Marcus De’Freitas
Partner: Cloud Architecture

TOGAF architect Marcus has worked for blue chip financial clients and public sector on some of the UK’s largest data applications. He leads Blue Hat’s enterprise architecture practice.

Martin Gill
Martin Gill
Partner: Trading Systems

Martin has worked on trading system implementation. As VP of Engineering he was responsible for a 100 strong IT team developing a new core trading platform to BP.

Rob Gill
Rob Gill
Partner: Healthcare & Data Science

Starting his career as a bio-chemist, Rob quickly moved into medical data science. He then transitioned to finance, for the past six years running Content Capital before joining Blue Hat to lead the data practice.

Tim Palmer
Tim Palmer
CEO: Digital Transformation

Tim founded Blue Hat after a number of COO and CTO roles in Banking, Startup and Consulting businesses. His passion is delivering software that delivers the business objectives.

Edward Quinlan
Edward Quinlan
Partner: Product Management

Eddie has worked in product and change management over 20 years. With a track record in implementing complex technology and cloud migration projects, Eddie runs Product Management practice and is a qualified coach.

behind the name Blue Hat

six thinking hats

“Six Thinking Hats” is a system designed by psychologist Edward de Bono (Amazon book link). It defines an approach to problem solving using a sequence of six coloured hats to encourage groups to think about problems from alternative perspectives.

The Blue Hat has the role of manager. It asks questions such as “what is the goal?” “what are we thinking about?” and is responsible for looking at the big picture.

We like the ideas that Edward de Bono exhorts – the need to look from many view points. There is no one simple right way to do things. We combine traditional software development approaches, management techniques including Six Thinking Hats, and the latest Agile DSDM, Scrum and Kanban approaches to deliver the best outcomes.