Tansel Adacan

15+ years / London / Digital Transformation, Programme & Technology Leadership

Tansel Adacan is a Digital Programme Director, Technical Programme Manager and Senior Project Manager with 15+ years’ experience leading digital transformation across products, platforms, web, mobile, data and enterprise systems.

His background covers leadership at Director level, strategy, operating model and business process change, commercial and supplier management, and complex programme delivery. He has worked client-side and within consultancies and agencies, helping organisations turn strategic objectives into clear priorities, funded programmes and practical change. His strength is being able to move between leadership and delivery, shaping direction and investment decisions at senior level while still understanding what it takes to get complex work delivered successfully. He is equally comfortable working with senior leadership on direction and investment decisions or getting closer to delivery when something needs attention.

Services & Capabilities

Digital Transformation & Programme Leadership

Turning strategic objectives into clear priorities, roadmaps and governed programmes, then carrying them through delivery and transition with a focus on business outcomes and measurable change.

Technology, Product, Platform & Data Modernisation

Leading delivery across web and mobile products and platforms, from discovery and design through build, integration, testing, release and adoption.

Operating Model & Business Process Change

Leading change across digital products, enterprise platforms, cloud and data, bringing together business priorities, specialist teams, suppliers, integrations and migration. Technology decisions are considered in the context of the wider organisation and the value they need to deliver.

Programme Recovery, Governance & Commercial Control

Bringing complex or challenged programmes back under control through clear priorities, integrated planning, practical governance, supplier management, commercial discipline and effective senior stakeholder decision making.

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What clients are saying

I’ve worked with Tansel on several large digital web projects and always been impressed. He’s a master at controlling a project using his own expertise and methodologies, whilst also listening to what teams and clients need (and is flexible and adaptive in finding the best way forward). When challenges arise, Tansel brings a calmness and pragmatism which makes others around him feel less stressed and keeps everyone on track to deliver. Above all, it’s clear that Tansel really cares about doing an excellent job, and is one of the most reliable PM’s I’ve had the pleasure of working with. I’d highly recommend Tansel for any digital project management role where experience and ownership is needed.

Tansel joined the project to oversee the introduction of a new team and a new workflow, since a change in delivery approach was necessary to get a challenging collaboration back on track. He quickly earned the trust of the client, and with his professionalism and can-do attitude he instilled confidence in the path forward. He also built positive relationships amongst the new internal team, and was instrumental in defining a new working model within a broad and complex network of stakeholders. Thank you for your time with us, Tansel.

Tansel is an absolute pleasure to work with. Juggling many moving parts across several teams based in multiple timezones, his skills as a PM are second to none.

Tansel joined at short notice Money20/20 to pick up and deliver a digital virtual networking project. He then went on to oversee the all the technology components that enabled us to successful bring back our live show in Amsterdam in September 2021. Tansel manged a group of complex and disparate stakeholders and was the clue that held the project together where he also maintained and tracked all the detailed activities.

We hired in Tansel for several months to help with the digital side of our business, and he executed his role very well slotting into the business culturally easily and quickly as well. He is both approachable and credible and I have no hesitation in recommending Tansel.

Tansel worked as our Digital Programme Director spearheading multiple complex projects for the business very efficiently. His organisation skills and digital know-how are of an excellent standard and he is an integral asset to our Leadership team. Without hesitation that we recommend Tansel.

A calm head in chaos, Tansel has been invaluable to me across a number of major projects, including the most recent which spanned over ten markets. His flexibility and focus have allowed us to respond to a changing brief and a challenging client - ahead of schedule no less. He is detail-focused, thoughtful and precise, skills that clearly sets him apart and as a result; have earned him the respect of the team. Tansel is a pleasure to work with; calm, composed and adept at mobilising his team with ease and precision. I've thoroughly enjoyed working with him and would love to do so again.