Meet some of our team

Jenny Vasey

Joining Ignite to pursue her passion for delivering positive change, Jenny excels working in challenging environments bringing together ideas and teams to achieve success. In her spare time, she enjoys running and attempting to play netball, as well as creating a scrapbook of the many amateur photos she takes when visiting new (and old!) places.

Mark Long

Mark co-founded Ignite back in 2004. It was his passion for tackling complex and challenging change through creativity and sheer bloody-minded tenacity that set the organisation on its path to greatness. A keen rugby fan and cyclist, Mark spends his weekends on his bike going up and down hills across the Chilterns.

Henry Branson

Henry joined in 2017 after leading large change programmes in local government. Experienced in technology-enabled transformation, he believes that sustainable change also needs the right people, in the right roles, with the right team culture. Henry is a ‘Plucky Dipper’, a group of enthusiastic wild swimmers who enjoy year-round dips off the Sussex coast.

James Stainer

James joined Ignite in 2014 having studied Civil Engineering at university. He spends most of his time working with public sector clients on large transformation programmes, fundamentally changing how they deliver for their customers and ensuring financial requirements are met. James is interested in all things sport and you can often find him at his local golf club.

Susan Churcher

Ignite’s talent manager, Susan’s pre-Ignite background was in retail buying and consulting. With Ignite since 2009, Susan’s role is to ensure that Ignite has the right people, supported and challenged so that they flourish in all the aspects that are important to success and balance. Food is a passion – cooked indoors or out – with some weightlifting and park running thrown in to help offset over-indulgence.

Julian Osgathorpe

Julian brings 20 years’ experience working across all areas of local government. He has experience designing and delivering some of the largest and most complex transformation programmes seen in recent years. When not working or with his family, Julian can usually be found either swimming, cycling or running as he pretends to be a triathlete!