A word from the CTO

Why I Left a Global Consultancy to Start LDS — And What We’re Building Together

Earlier this year, I left a global consultancy to co-found LDS Consulting Limited — alongside two of the most capable and trusted colleagues I’ve had the privilege to work with:
👨‍💻 [@Garry Dempster] — expert in service transition, operations, and organisational change
🛠 [@Jason Sander] — solution architect with deep technical knowledge and relentless delivery focus

At face value, LDS might look like a high-performing IT infrastructure consultancy — and yes, that’s what we are today. We’re helping enterprises navigate complex separations, transform legacy estates, and build the foundations for growth.

But LDS was never just about IT.

We came together because we share a bigger ambition: To show what’s possible when you combine deep consulting experience with a mission to make the systems we rely on better — for people, for budgets, and for the planet.

Our mantra is:

“We lower the altitude of the cloud.”
In other words, we make complexity manageable, transformation sustainable, and progress real.

So yes — right now, we’re delivering major infrastructure work. That’s our commercial foundation.

But we’re also:
• Helping care homes reduce energy waste through motion-based heating control
• Proving that smart homes can run on £500 a year for heating, electricity, and transport
• Building LDS Energy — our internal accelerator focused on decarbonisation through data, not hardware
• And writing the playbook for how optimisation can beat investment, if you apply the right logic

This isn’t a pivot. This is our dual mission:
To serve today’s clients with excellence, and shape tomorrow’s systems with intent.

If you’re working through cost, complexity, or carbon challenges — in IT, education, care, or energy — we’d love to show you what’s possible.

Sometimes the panacea isn’t the product.
It’s the people.
And the orchestration