Meet the team
We are Elixirr
Meet our team
Stephen Newton
Stephen founded Elixirr in 2009 with one very clear vision – to build the best consulting firm in the world. After extensive years working in industry, he became fixed on making real change happen in businesses – having experienced first-hand the stagnated approach many large corporate firms took to innovation.
Graham Busby
Graham Busby is Co-Founder and Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Elixirr. Since founding the firm in 2009, he has played a pivotal role in scaling the business and shaping its growth strategy. Graham leads Elixirr’s inorganic growth agenda and has overseen eight acquisitions to date, materially expanding the firm’s capabilities, industry reach and global presence. Appointed Deputy CEO in early 2025, Graham previously served as CFO. Before Elixirr, he held senior roles at Accenture across strategy and outsourcing sales, advising large global clients.
Nick Willott
Nick joined Elixirr in 2020, the year of the company’s AIM IPO, and served as the Group’s Finance Director and Company Secretary until 2024, before being appointed CFO in January 2025. Prior to joining Elixirr, Nick was the Finance Director and an executive board director of the financial services division at a FTSE 250 company.
Gavin Patterson
Gavin joined Elixirr as Chairman in 2019, formerly serving as Chief Executive Officer of BT Group from 2013. During his tenure at BT, he completed the UK rollout of the superfast fiber and started the deployment of ultrafast fiber.
Charlotte Stranner
Charlotte was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director in July 2020, having been a consultant to the Company since April 2020. Charlotte is currently the Chief Financial Officer for Dianomi Plc.
Simon Retter
Simon joined Elixirr in December 2019 as a Corporate Finance Consultant and was appointed to the Board in July 2020.
He’s held many Non-Executive and Commercial CFO roles over the past few years. Entrepreneurial and commercial, Simon’s experience is in setting up and managing both listed and private companies.



