Helena joins Project Rome with 15 years of experience working in finance, project management and process improvement. Helena is a Chartered Management Accountant and project manager with a 1st Honours Degree in International Hospitality & Tourism Management. Upon graduating, Helena took a finance position with ICI plc in the North East of England in 2003. Experiencing the first of several M&As in her career, she moved with ICI to their London HQs three years later and successfully managed a series of UK and European sites through a vast Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) project, moving in-house financial operations to shared international service centres. She decided to change industries and joined Lloyds TSB in early 2008, where she worked with the Finance Business partner team until the merger of Lloyds TSB and HBOS presented her with the opportunity to head up the Corporate Banking Finance integration team in 2009.

In 2010 Helena joined Pure Leapfrog, a business led environmental charity focused on bridging corporate pro bono resource and finance with established community groups. Helena was instrumental in creating the project infrastructure and helped to broker pro bono support worth £1.5m in the two years working for the charity.

Working with Project Rome as a business consultant, Helena brings her enthusiasm, knowledge and experience.