Our People
Paul Gibbons Advisory deploys on three continents, advising leadership teams and putting boots on the ground on the most critical AI issues: strategy and governance, enablement and change, and security.
Founder
Founder & Principal · Author of ten books on leadership, change and AI
Paul helps boards and executive teams turn AI investment into adoption that lasts, separating strategic signal from hype and grounding every programme in evidence, ethics and the behavioural science of how people actually change. He leads the firm’s strategy and governance work and brings the Adaptive Adoption™ framework to every engagement.
Board-level AI strategy, operating models, and the governance that lets adoption scale safely.
Interim CIO, Transformation Director & COO · 30+ years · ING, Euroclear, Worldline, UCB
Laurent is brought in when transformation stalls. He embeds quickly, reads the organisation as a system rather than an org chart, and holds strategy and execution together until the change lands. A GUBERNA-certified director focused on AI risk, he helps boards close the gap between what they think they understand about AI and what they need to oversee.
Industrial growth strategist · 30 years in chemicals · former VP Marketing, W.R. Grace
Kendall helps industrial and materials companies find the growth they are overlooking. Working across strategy, innovation, commercial excellence and transformation, he turns new markets and turnarounds into revenue and profit. He brings the commercial discipline AI programmes need to pay back, and coaches the executives who have to lead the change.
AI transformation leader & turnaround operator · 20 years at Philips and P&G · Harvard AMP
Danijel helps leadership teams get a hard return from AI without sacrificing their people. At Philips he built the first AI centre of excellence for a $1B medical device business: $5M in efficiencies across 25+ use cases, no AI-driven layoffs, and the company’s first agentic deployment with measurable ROI. He adds twenty years of growing and turning around global businesses.
Hands-on adoption inside the work: workflow redesign, forward-deployed builds, and change that sticks.
Forward-Deployed Engineer · 20+ years in product design and full-stack engineering
Anderson turns business workflows into production AI systems. Combining product design and full-stack engineering with agentic AI and intelligent automation, he takes ideas from problem to working product, so companies move beyond experiments and prototypes to systems that improve real work, reduce manual effort and create measurable value.
Change & workforce transformation leader · 19 years · ExxonMobil, Merck, BHP, Westpac
Fernando turns large-scale change and workforce transformation into measurable performance. He brings the adoption machinery AI programmes need to move from pilot to everyday use: champion networks, practitioner teams and the metrics to prove it. His programmes have delivered adoption scores above 90% and more than $100M in quantified benefits.
Protecting AI systems, the data they touch, and the people who use them.
Chief Digital Officer · leading cyber security research · former Executive Partner, IBM
John Marc helps organisations adopt AI and other emerging technologies without opening new risks. He embeds security into complex delivery, from DevSecOps in large application programmes to critical national infrastructure in the UK public sector, and advises leaders on what evolving cyber threats mean for them and what to do about it.
Tell us the problem. We will assemble the people, on the ground where you need them.