Aidan quickly gets beyond first impressions, priding himself on his personable approach and ability to nurture and maintain strong relationships with both clients and colleagues alike; he builds relationships on respect, trust, loyalty and integrity. Aidan excels by mixing his strong relationship management skills with his Account Management expertise and passion for Business Development and has attained experience across private and public sector markets.

An accomplished negotiator, Aidan has represented his employer in major contract negotiations, upholding the belief that the brokered deal must remain attractive to all parties. Aidan is comfortable dealing with all customers including CxO levels and is experienced in developing partnering relationships as required to support contract delivery.

Aidan possesses excellent Programme Management skills and has successfully overseen delivery of major IM&T Programmes into his clients’ business.

Leading by example, Aidan expects colleagues to work smart to achieve common goals. He enjoys coaching and mentoring to encourage performance improvement within teams and individuals.

Meike Escherich is an associate research director with IDC’s European Future of Work research service, based in the UK. In this role, she provides coverage of key technology trends across the Future of Work, specializing in how to drive and monitor productivity in a flexible work environment. This includes research into workforce management, agile performance measures, employee engagement/innovation programs and AI driven wellness solutions.

Prior to joining IDC, Meike was a Principal Analyst at Gartner (20 years) – covering Personal Computing, IT Services and Consumer Technologies – and a freelance consultant working with several UK analyst firms and international technology providers (3 years). An expert at identifying and solving strategic pain points Meike has worked with C-level executives across a multitude of industries such as IT, Education, Government, Health, Media, and Finance.

Having studied in Germany (University of Konstanz), Switzerland (University of Geneva, ERASMUS) and the UK (University of Exeter, ERASMUS) Meike holds a bachelor’s degree in Law as well as a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology.