Our story

Bluefish was formed in 2004, by Phil Howarth, Lyndon Knight and Brian Birtles. Since then, the company has grown rapidly, featuring for three consecutive years in the Microsoft/Sunday Times Tech Track 100 and in the Deloitte Fast 50/EMEA Fast 500 league tables.

We now have an impressive portfolio of FTSE100 clients and public bodies in a wide variety of sectors. Bluefish is a leader in the delivery of technology services and one of the fastest growing professional services companies in the UK.

How our company received its name says a lot about us. As a consultancy, we like to let good ideas float up no matter how junior the contributor. Indeed, our name ‘Bluefish’ was suggested by our youngest ever recruit, Phil Howarth’s son, then 8, after a fishing trip to Cape Cod.

Mission statement

To be our clients’ preferred provider of thought leadership and technical excellence in Consulting, Resourcing and Outsourcing services.

Our clients

Bluefish has worked in over 70% of Telco Service Providers and over 80% of Telecoms equipment providers

We help leading corporates and public sector organisations in all industries to overcome their IT challenges. We have particular experience of working with:

• Telco, Media and Technology companies;
• Financial Services companies; and
• Business Information companies.

In our latest satisfaction survey, compiled in January 2011, our clients praise our knowledge, responsiveness and ability to solve difficult problems.

Staff and locations

Highly qualified workforce

Bluefish has a 250 strong multiskilled workforce of Consultants, Engineers and Project Managers. All are experts in their fields and respected professionals.

70% of Bluefish employees hold a degree. 40% have an MA, MSc or MBA. 44% of our Consultants hold vendor accreditation eg. Cisco Certified Internetworking Engineer (CCIE). Over 50% of our staff have a project management qualification, such as, for instance, ‘Prince 2 Practitioner’.

Many are Fellows or Members of leading professional organisations, including:

• the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
• the Chartered Management Institute (CMI)
• the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
• the Energy Institute (EI)
• the Chartered Institute for IT (ex BCS)

A global presence

We have offices and affiliates across the world: in the UK, Europe, Australia, the Middle East and Singapore. We respond to our clients’ needs wherever their needs arise.

We routinely work for them throughout Africa and America, in New Zealand, Japan and in most European capitals.