New network will supply enterprise clients with specialist skills needed to drive AI value
June 5th 2026 | London, UK: Valliance, the independent enterprise AI consultancy, today launches a curated network of senior AI leaders – the Associate Partner Network – designed to give clients on-demand access to deep, domain-specific expertise precisely matched to their needs.
The network launches with 6 founding Associate Partners, each hand-selected by Valliance for their specialist credentials. The consultancy plans to scale the network strategically, ensuring it can address the full breadth of enterprise AI challenges without compromise.
The new network launches with:
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Ahmed Hussain (https://valliance.ai/who-we-are/ahmed-hussain) has spent 20 years leading financial services transformation programmes at firms including EY, Genpact, and EPAM. He’s made a career of eliminating the hidden friction that stalls $100M+ programmes, cutting down outdated value chains, infrastructure, and legacy processes.
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Ivo Böhm (https://valliance.ai/who-we-are/ivo-böhm) led organisations of up to 400 people at Nike EMEA across supply chain operations, technology, and analytics, building on earlier senior roles at Deloitte and Accenture. His track record includes $55M in cost savings, a 10-day reduction in inventory cycle times, and building Nike’s first Logistics Analytics organisation from scratch. He eschews tech hype, instead believing that transformation of the supply chain starts with operational reality.
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Gaurav Malhotra (https://valliance.ai/who-we-are/gaurav-malhotra) brings 25+ years of architecting enterprise platforms across AWS, GCP, and OCI, including AI and data transformations at Nike, H&M, Oracle, and The Hartford that delivered over €350M in measured annual EBIT. His expertise runs from core data infrastructure through to GenAI, knowledge graphs, and neuro-symbolic AI, taking a measured, output-focused approach to inform recommendations.
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Will Dixon (https://valliance.ai/who-we-are/will-dixon) is a strategy and transformation leader with 24 years’ experience across Accenture, Fjord, Red Badger, Zone, and Cognizant. He co-founded Volta, which was named in Time’s Best Inventions 2021, and built 2045, a human-first AI platform with multi-agent orchestration and 200+ expert agents. He specialises in combining strategy, design, and technology with agentic AI to deliver transformation at speed.
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Chris Tomlinson (https://valliance.ai/who-we-are/chris-tomlinson) has spent 25 years redesigning how global enterprises work, at companies including Shell, Novartis, Roche, Sanofi, and Siemens. He led organisation design on Shell’s $53bn BG Group acquisition, which saved $3.5bn through combining the two entities, 12 months ahead of plan. In 2025, he rebuilt his own consultancy around AI embedded in delivery rather than bolted on. He’s also completed his Post-Graduate Diploma in AI at Oxford’s Saïd Business School, with a focus on change delivery and adoption.
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Dr. Harald Gunia (https://valliance.ai/who-we-are/harald-gunia) brings 36 years of experience across more than 10 industries, working at the intersection of advanced AI, enterprise systems, and responsible innovation. He specialises in multi-agent systems, generative and symbolic AI, and SAP-integrated architectures, and has built a 50+ application transformation toolkit that takes organisations from strategy to governance in weeks. He’s also the author of GenAI in the Enterprise.
Valliance assigns Associate Partners to client engagements based on skillset fit, existing tech stack, and strategic objectives. The result is lean, capable teams that move fast and go further.
Rad Parvin, Co-Founder and Senior Value Partner, Valliance, said: “Legacy consultancies are incentivised to build big teams and run long engagements to drive up bills. But bloated teams with the wrong skills don’t deliver AI transformation. Instead, they create longwinded projects that benefit the consultancy’s bottom line without demonstrating ROI.
“At Valliance, we charge for outcomes. The Associate Partner Network means we can assemble exactly the right expertise for each client, giving them access to the specialists who will make the difference.”
Valliance’s expanded team builds upon the existing specialists who have already been brought in-house to support the firm’s growing client base. The hiring strategy remains highly targeted, with a focus on skills and expertise over sheer headcount to avoid the bloat that has traditionally weighed down legacy consultancies.