About Business-Utility.com

20 specialists. 321+ years of utility expertise.

We are a team of senior consultants in business energy, telecoms, water, merchant card services, business rates appeals and business water. Every engagement is delivered in-depth, fully compliant with sector regulators, and quality-checked before it leaves our desk.

20
Consultants
321+
Combined years
Ofgem · Ofwat · Ofcom
Compliance
QA on every file
Quality of work

Meet the consultants

The same specialists behind our live chat — real people, real desks, real case files.

Alex Whitfield

Head of Energy Procurement

22 yrs

Former trading-desk analyst at a Big Six supplier. Leads our electricity & gas tender book and negotiates flexible and fixed contracts for multi-site portfolios.

  • Business Energy
  • Half-hourly metering
  • Flex contracts
Compliance-checked · QA reviewed

Maya Holbrook

Senior Telecoms Consultant

18 yrs

Ex-BT enterprise account director. Audits line rental, SIP, mobile fleet and WAN spend; recovered six-figure overcharges on legacy carrier billing.

  • Telecoms
  • SIP & VoIP
  • Mobile fleet
Compliance-checked · QA reviewed

Sam Carrington

Connectivity & Broadband Lead

14 yrs

Designs leased-line and full-fibre rollouts for SMEs and franchises. Specialist in circuit consolidation and SLA-backed migrations.

  • Leased lines
  • Full fibre
  • SD-WAN
Compliance-checked · QA reviewed

Priya Raman

Head of Water Services

19 yrs

Chartered water auditor. Leads our business water switching and wastewater reclaim work — including surface water drainage rebates and trade effluent reviews.

  • Business Water
  • Surface water reclaim
  • Trade effluent
Compliance-checked · QA reviewed

Leo Marchetti

Merchant Services Director

21 yrs

20+ years inside card acquiring. Strips out IC++ markups, scheme fee padding and PCI charges; benchmarks against direct acquirer pricing.

  • Merchant Accounts
  • IC++ pricing
  • PCI compliance
Compliance-checked · QA reviewed

Noor Hadid

Commercial Insurance Specialist

16 yrs

Cii-qualified consultant. Reviews property, liability and fleet covers; restructures programmes to remove duplicate covers and recover consultant commission.

  • Commercial insurance
  • Fleet
  • Liability
Compliance-checked · QA reviewed

Jay Henderson

Waste & Recycling Consultant

13 yrs

Negotiates DMR, glass and food-waste contracts across hospitality and manufacturing. Specialist in lift-charge audits and weight reconciliation.

  • Waste contracts
  • Recycling
  • DMR audits
Compliance-checked · QA reviewed

Ivy Ashworth

Procurement Consultant

12 yrs

Runs print, stationery and consumables tenders. Implements catalogue controls that hold supplier pricing for the life of the agreement.

  • Procurement
  • Print management
  • Consumables
Compliance-checked · QA reviewed

Rafael Duarte

Fleet & Fuel Card Lead

17 yrs

Former fuel-card BDM. Removes transaction fees, network surcharges and tied pump pricing across mixed HGV and van fleets.

  • Fuel cards
  • Fleet telematics
  • EV transition
Compliance-checked · QA reviewed

Zara Khan

SaaS & Licensing Auditor

11 yrs

Microsoft, Adobe and Salesforce true-up specialist. Reclaims over-licensing and renegotiates enterprise agreements at renewal.

  • SaaS audits
  • Microsoft EA
  • License optimisation
Compliance-checked · QA reviewed

Omar El-Sayed

Cloud Cost Engineer

10 yrs

AWS & Azure FinOps practitioner. Reserved-instance planning, idle-resource sweeps and committed-use discount negotiation.

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • FinOps
Compliance-checked · QA reviewed

Lina Petrov

Banking & Finance Fees Lead

20 yrs

Ex-business banker. Recovers unauthorised charges, FX margins and arrangement fees; benchmarks facilities against challenger banks.

  • Business banking
  • FX margins
  • Facility reviews
Compliance-checked · QA reviewed

Ben Whitaker

Logistics & Carrier Consultant

15 yrs

Audits DHL, UPS, FedEx and pallet-network invoices line-by-line. Specialises in fuel surcharge recovery and zonal rebanding.

  • Carrier audits
  • Pallet networks
  • International freight
Compliance-checked · QA reviewed

Ana Beltran

Marketing Spend Auditor

12 yrs

Reviews media agency contracts, programmatic spend transparency and search account waste. AVB and rebate recovery specialist.

  • Media audits
  • Agency contracts
  • Programmatic
Compliance-checked · QA reviewed

Tariq Mahmood

Head of Business Rates Appeals

24 yrs

RICS-qualified rating surveyor. Leads our Check, Challenge, Appeal work — rateable value reductions, MCC claims and empty-rates mitigation.

  • Business Rates Appeals
  • CCA
  • MCC claims
Compliance-checked · QA reviewed

Elena Rossi

HR & Payroll Services Consultant

14 yrs

Benchmarks payroll bureau and HRIS fees; renegotiates per-payslip pricing and removes legacy module charges.

  • Payroll bureau
  • HRIS
  • Employee benefits
Compliance-checked · QA reviewed

Kai Lindholm

Facilities Management Lead

16 yrs

Tenders cleaning, security and M&E maintenance contracts. Specialist in TUPE-safe rebids and KPI-linked pricing.

  • Cleaning & security
  • Hard FM
  • TUPE rebids
Compliance-checked · QA reviewed

Freya Sinclair

Legal Services Cost Consultant

13 yrs

Reviews panel-firm hourly rates, secondments and retainer structures. Negotiates fixed-fee and capped arrangements.

  • Panel reviews
  • Fixed-fee structures
  • E-billing audit
Compliance-checked · QA reviewed

Diego Navarro

Accountancy Fees Specialist

11 yrs

Benchmarks compliance, audit and advisory fees. Restructures scopes of work so businesses only pay for what they use.

  • Audit fees
  • Compliance scope
  • Advisory benchmarking
Compliance-checked · QA reviewed

Mira Sundaram

Head of Cost Review & Compliance

23 yrs

Oversees our cross-category audits, file quality and regulatory compliance (Ofgem, Ofwat, Ofcom and FCA-aligned conduct).

  • Multi-utility audits
  • Compliance
  • Quality assurance
Compliance-checked · QA reviewed

How we work

Every file is opened by a named specialist, reviewed by our compliance lead, and benchmarked against live market data before any recommendation reaches you. We hold full LOAs, audit-trailed supplier correspondence, and a no-savings/no-fee position on reclaim work — so you only ever pay when we deliver a measurable result.