Our team
We believe that you should only pay for what you get: we therefore maintain low overheads by managing a small core team of employees supplemented by an associate team of experts and best friends.
Bernard Savage
Position: Managing Director
Email: bernard@tenandahalf.co.uk
Shoe size: 10½
With 19 years of professional sales and marketing experience, including in-house roles at Procter & Gamble, Shell and Eversheds. Bernard is the founding member and driving force behind size 10½ boots.
He is also one of those unusual people who enjoys hard graft and has an obsession for detail – which makes him a great person to have work for you. Bernard wears size 10½’s; but of course he would do.
Douglas McPherson
Position: Director
Email: douglas@tenandahalf.co.uk
Shoe size: 11
With 18 years of professional sales and marketing experience; to include head of sales at Intellectual Property Publishing and Commercial Director for The Lloyd's Marine Intelligence Unit, Douglas is our new director. He brings a wealth of commercial business development and account management expertise and a broad knowledge of providing specialist solutions to the legal and insurance markets.
Outside work Douglas shares Bernard's love of football balanced with an unhealthy obsession with obscure soul music. Douglas wears size 11's but argues that makes him half an inch better!
Steven Odell
Position: Business Development Manager
Email: steven@tenandahalf.co.uk
Shoe size: 9
Having worked for Doug in a former life, Steven jumped at the opportunity to join Tenandahalf as our first Business Development Manager in 2011. With 3 years sales experience and 5 years in accountancy, Steven's understanding of the accountancy profession married with his ability to find and close a deal made him an ideal signing for Tenandahalf. As well as looking at developing Tenandahalf's profile within the professional services Steven will also manage our unique lead generation service.
When Steven isn't spending his weekends sat in traffic on the M1 his interests include football and weekends away. He is also a lifelong Nottingham Forest supporter but unfortunately that life hasn't been long enough for him to remember when they were famous!
Claire McPherson
Position: Office Manager
Email: claire@tenandahalf.co.uk
Shoe size: 7
Claire has rejoined Tenandahalf as our new Office Manager where her hyper-organised approach, her incredible eye for detail and her, shall we say, somewhat 'careful' fiscal nature made her a shoe-in to look after the administrative side of the business.
Chris Henderson
Position: Associate
Email: chris@tenandahalf.co.uk
Shoe size: 11
Chris has held a combination of roles both as a leader and in leadership development at both Boots and Barclays.
Chris is now the principal and founder of Leadership Connections Ltd a coaching and development organisation. He specialises in coaching and delivering successful change programmes, helping to grow leadership capability.
Andy Green
Position: Associate
Email: andy@tenandahalf.co.uk
Shoe size: 12
Andy Green is a world-leading creative marketing and public relations strategist and has won numerous industry awards for his public relations campaigns.
Andy’s experience and expertise means that clients have access to one of the most dynamic thinkers in the UK who will help develop a communications strategy and, more importantly, the means to implement it.
Colin Dobell
Position: Associate
Email: colin@tenandahalf.co.uk
Shoe size: 10½
Colin is senior management and finance professional with over 16 years experience within the outsourced services industry working for a number of leading providers including Group 4 and GSL. During this time Colin has led and won large scale tender PPP and PFI projects for Police, Immigration Removal Centres and Prison programmes as well as commercial management of other large-scale accommodation projects including GCHQ and The Met Office . Colin’s last post was FD and COO for the GEO Group UK Ltd where he started the business from scratch as part of a two-man team in 2005. In late 2009 he joined MITIE as MD for their new custodial services division, Care and Custody where he’s hoping to grow a significant and successful business.
Colin is a non-executive director of Mansfield Town Football Club and shares Bernard’s unhealthy and largely unexplainable affection for the Stags.
John Stokes
Position: Associate
Email: john@tenandahalf.co.uk
Shoe size: 9
Although his shoe size may be the official UK average, John's insider knowledge of law firms and their culture is anything but.
Listed in the official "Who's Who of Recruitment", John has strategically advised law firms since 1986, brokering many headline grabbing moves, for leading individuals and teams across the whole of the UK. Formerly Head of Regional Operations and Director of an AIM listed legal recruitment company, in 2003 he went on to establish the legal headhunters "Quest Executive Search" where he now designs and manages recruitment strategies and is engaged to headhunt the best "off market" talent for firms throughout the UK.
Away from the office, John can be found taking out the day's frustrations on the squash court, or extreme mountain biking (downhill only!).
Graeme Dixon
Position: Associate
Email: graeme@tenandahalf.co.uk
Shoe size: 10
After nearly 10 years in Military Intelligence, Graeme moved into professional recruitment and Competitive Intelligence. He is regional Chair of the Association of MBAs and a member of an Open University Business School advisory board. He is the founder of Cast Consulting and set up a professional services recruitment firm in Nottingham. An additional string to Graeme's bow is providing Security and Risk management, specialising in helping Professional Service firms and their clients with Due Diligence, Investigations, Protection Services, Surveillance and Litigation support.
Passionate about all things 'Competition', Graeme undertakes all types of projects from Competitive Intelligence work to advising on the set up and structure of a function through to consulting with established operations to ensure their results are the best they can be.
Graeme lives in Nottingham with his wife and two little boys, claims to be a (very) former 400 metre athlete and is a continuous learner in the art of Shorin Ryu, the original Karate.
Carlisle United by birth and Nottingham Forest by fortune!
Anne Toler
Position: Associate
Email: anne@tenandahalf.co.uk
Shoe size: 5
Anne is an HR business consultant with experience of both strategic and generalist HR approaches. She worked for a number of years in various HR functions (recruitment, learning & development, generalist and specialist roles) at senior levels in Boots - both UK and international divisions.
She set up her business HR Associates in 2003, since then she has worked on many varied assignments in public and private sectors, large corporations and professional firms. Projects range from supporting the set-up of good HR practice in smaller organisations to designing and running management development programmes.
Her interests include Egyptian belly-dancing and walking her retired racing greyhound (not at the same time though).
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What our clients say about us
I have an ever growing number of marketing consultants beating a path to my door but what I've found in Courtney Borthwick of Size 10½ Boots is a deep understanding of the fundamentals of legal BD and an uncanny ability to provide insightful advice and add value, every time.
Nick Symington, Business Development Director, Langleys Solicitors
Our experience with Size 10½ Boots has been a breath of fresh air and, speaking as someone who would have laughed heartily at the idea of BD training for barristers 3 years ago, I am a convert and looking forward to what we can achieve with our new found direction and approach.
Scott Baldwin, Head Clerk, St Mary's Chambers
Bernard provides refreshingly down-to-earth advice. He was great at demystifying and humanising a series of marketing concepts and giving us practical action plans we could each take away from our training session. The training was lively, productive and fun.
John Haresnape, Head of UK Business Development, Taylor Wessing LLP, Law Firm
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