Dave is one of the co-founders of APS and has held significant roles within some of the biggest financial institutions and delivered some of the largest programmes within that sector.

Dave has over 20 years of experience working on transformational change programmes, which include leading the Governance for RBS with regulatory and compliance programmes (overseeing a £90m budget) as well as playing a key part in the Finance workstream supporting the Lloyds divestment and Integration with HBoS. In his early career Dave worked at Barclays as a Business Analyst before running and delivering projects across the UK and Africa on SAP projects.

Dave has a passion for delivering high quality solutions and skilled resource into change programmes and projects that demand results, supporting our mission at APS to partner with our clients. His passion for delivering business success for our clients has driven our company vision and every member of our APS Consulting team.


Account Management – its our USP…….
Dave Newland
October 3, 2022

Account Management - its our USP...... We decided when setting up APS we would take all of the things we liked from our previous roles and improve the areas we didn’t like to ensure our customers get the best support...[read full article]

03 Oct
IR35 – So what….
Dave Newland
September 27, 2022

IR35 will be repealed from April 6th 2023 - two years after being introduced into the private sector Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng announced in the mini-budget last week, workers across the UK providing their services via an intermediary, such as a...[read full article]

27 Sep
APS have been awarded ‘Most Innovative Technology Consultancy’ for 2022
Dave Newland
August 15, 2022

APS have been awarded ‘Most Innovative Technology Consultancy’ by Corporate Live Wire Innovation & Excellence Awards 2022. Co-founders Mark Blake and Dave Newland commented “Technology is moving quicker and faster than ever before and being recognised for the support APS...[read full article]

15 Aug
APS – Data Consultancy of the Year 2022 – “SME News”
Dave Newland
May 2, 2022

APS have been awarded ‘Data Consultancy of the Year 2022’ by SME News. Mark Blake (Co-Founder and Director at APS) commented “APS have worked on Data Transformation and Data Regulatory programmes since 2015, we are now Subject Matter Experts in...[read full article]

02 May
Change Enablement through PMO
Dave Newland
January 18, 2022

We have all been in organisations where the Project Management Office are seen as an administrative body which slows down the rate of change insisting all “I’s” have been dotted and all “T’s” crossed. (e.g. all boxes must have been...[read full article]

18 Jan