Mr. Sankey brings 20 years of commercial, operational and leadership experience in consulting and working in-house. He partners with leadership teams and founders to build a bridge from today’s business to tomorrow’s, focusing on scenarios in which a business needs to revitalise, adapt or reimagine itself in response to disruption or when there is an imperative to explore “white space” opportunities and identify a new venture or product. Mr. Sankey has worked with clients in various industries, including financial services, energy, automotive, telecoms, media and retail.

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Sankey founded Door, a strategic innovation consultancy working with corporates and scale-ups to identify and realise new opportunities. His clients include brands such as Sky, Volvo, 10X Technologies, OVO Energy, Husky Finance, Euroclear and Nobia. He consulted on the digital product strategy for Sky Glass—Sky’s own TV. Mr. Sankey also reimagined the future value proposition and created a target experience model for OVO Energy that catalysed a full business transformation.

Previously, Mr. Sankey was Director of Customer Experience and Innovation at Barclays where he co-led the creation of entrepreneurial banking, a new high growth customer segment worth £100 million in annual revenue, and the Barclays Accelerator and Rise innovation spaces. The Barclays Accelerator reached $4 billion market cap in September 2021.

Mr. Sankey earned a bachelor’s degree in industrial design from Coventry University. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a patron of Harmonica UK, a music charity. He has spoken at numerous conferences and organisations such as Financial Times, Wired, Money, Harvard Business Review, Warwick Business School, Agile Business Consortium, Arrival and the BBC.