Bill Penney has been a provider of interim management services since 1989. He founded AshtonPenney in 1994 and now champions the company’s charity and not for profit assignments.  He has been deeply involved in setting and maintaining the highest professional standards for the industry: a past chairman of the Interim Management Association, he was involved in its formation as ATIES in the early '90's. He led the launch of the professional body, the Institute of Interim Management, at the turn of the millennium and, more recently, has been on the steering committee for the launch of the IMA Institute.

Ordained a C of E clergyman in 1966, he spent ten years in parish life and as an industrial chaplain in Rochester Diocese, before becoming “non-stipendiary” 1976.  A Sloan Fellow of the London Business School, he ran employee communications for Rockware Group in the late 70’s, was chief executive of a Kent youth employment charity in the early 80’s – and then a main board director of Williams Lea Group for the rest of that decade.   He has been the Hon Chaplain to the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants since its early days and now administers the Company’s mentoring scheme.