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AWS Advanced Tier Partner

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UK’s Best Places to Work in Tech 2025 (three years running)

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Flexa verified

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Top 50 Digital Agencies – Prolific North

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Highly commended – Tech Agency of the Year – Prolific North Tech Awards 2025

About Leighton

 Leighton is a digital product engineering consultancy focused on application modernisation, cloud enablement, and practical AI adoption and implementation. 

We design, build, and continuously improve digital products and platforms that are scalable, secure, and commercially effective.

Our expertise covers the full product lifecycle, including UX, engineering, delivery, and QA and our mission is to empower our customers to deliver value with greater speed and certainty. 

Specialists in cloud enablement, we modernise applications and cloud infrastructure to improve performance, security, resilience, and cost efficiency.

We also help organisations move beyond AI experimentation by identifying practical use cases, building AI-enabled features and automation, and putting the right governance in place to scale safely and responsibly.  

As AWS specialists – with AWS Advanced Tier Partner status – we combine proven cloud architecture capability with delivery experience to support complex modernisation programmes with confidence. 

Through our AWS Practice we support customers to maximise the performance of their cloud environments using the depth of knowledge across our team.  

We are trusted by some of the world’s leading brands, including British Airways, Avios, Hays Travel, Greggs and Atom Bank, Leighton exists to make technology work harder for our customers – accelerating delivery, improving quality and enabling lasting digital capability that scales with our customers. 

Meet the Team

James Bunting Chief Executive Officer
James Bunting
CEO
Claire Cundill Chief Revenue Officer
Claire Cundill
CCO
Clare Geldhill Chief Consulting Officer
Clare Gledhill
COO
Andy Carr Chief Finance Officer
Andy Carr
CFO
Steve Morland Chief Technology Officer
Steve Morland
CTO
Lee Gilmore AWS Practice Lead
Lee Gilmore
AWS Practice Lead
Mark Sailes Technical Presales Consultant
Mark Sailes
Technical Presales Consultant
Holli Taylor Head Of Marketing
Holli Taylor
Head of Marketing
Kate Ramsay Content And PR Lead
Kate Ramsay
PR and Communications Lead
George Dunmore Marketing Executive
George Dunmore
Marketing Executive
Rob Yardy Head Of Business Development
Rob Yardy
Head of Business Development 
Kate Jones Account Director
Kate Jones
Account Director
Richard Stringer Account Director
Richard Stringer
Account Director
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Skills

AI-Powered Campaign Optimisation Cloud Engineering Cloud Technology Solutions Digital Consultancy Digital Product Discovery Digital Transformation Migration Modernisation Product Design Product Management Product Strategy Quality Assurance Software Development Software Engineering Team Augmentation User Experience Consultancy Web and Mobile Application Development