People
David Boursnell (Principal Consultant & Director) has worked in business and marketing development for a number of years. From 1991 to 1998 he was employed by Sheffield City Council as Business Development Manager in Development, Environment & Leisure and worked on several major heritage and cultural projects in the City. In 1998 he set up DBA Consulting and has since worked on a number of successful consultancy projects. Specialist areas include helping clients with strategic development issues, options appraisal, business planning and market assessment and planning.
David, who has an MBA and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, has worked extensively on capital funding projects and has helped clients submit a number of successful lottery bids.
Fiona Elliott (Principal Consultant) has worked in the heritage sector for 20 years. Until recently she was the Chief Executive of the Thackray Museum, a leading independent medical museum. Fiona developed the museum's operational capability and its national and regional profile and in 2004 the museum won the Visit Britain National Visitor Attraction of the Year Award (under 100,000 visitors).
Prior to this Fiona was the Deputy Director of Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust. In addition to playing a key role in the direction and development of the trust and in a number of successful lottery applications, Fiona was also responsible for the re-opening of Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet and project managed the restoration and conservation of the site. Fiona previously worked in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich (in collections and collections management) and as an archaeologist.
Kate Elliott (Researcher) has recently joined DBA Consulting after working in the creative and cultural services industry. She is responsible for collecting and analysing information about the strategic environment, audiences and organisational performance that is vital in developing realistic forward plans. As well as desk research Kate commissions and undertakes original research on behalf of our clients and for our own research programme.