About us
Driven by purpose and a care focused approach.
MTC has a wealth of experience in the justice, immigration, education and training sectors, working with vulnerable people to help them transform their lives.
Our purpose – why we exist
Transforming lives by unlocking potential.
Our vision – where we want to be
To be a recognised global leader in social impact because we empower people to make positive life choices.
Our mission - how we are going to get there
Through our global experience in justice, immigration, education, training and employment services, we will deliver innovative skills-based learning that recognises people’s lived experiences, helping them realise their full potential and reduce economic and social inequality. That’s how we strengthen communities and transform lives.
Our senior leadership team
Responsible for making strategic decisions, our directors work across all areas of the business.
Our team is made up of real experts with years of experience in the criminal justice and immigration sector. Their combined knowledge gives MTC the direction to best deliver quality services and deliver our mission.
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Ian Mulholland
Managing Director of MTCIan has over 30 years’ experience in the justice sector, having worked in the civil service as a prison governor and senior civil servant for over two decades. Taking responsibility for 110 public prisons across England and Wales, he managed 85 per cent of the prison population and over 37,000 staff alongside three immigration removal centres.
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Following this, Ian managed probation delivery across five community rehabilitation companies at Interserve, alongside managing healthcare and education businesses. As managing director of MTC, Ian oversees our business development and social value offering while focusing on implementing our multi-layered growth strategy.
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Sarah Pavlou
Director of Finance, Commercial and StandardsSarah is a trained chartered accountant, having qualified at Deloitte, specialising in the not-for-profit and education sector. She spent 10 years at Inmarsat, a satellite communications company, leading on all external stock exchange reporting and playing a lead role in the financial integration of four significant acquisitions as head of group and corporate reporting.
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At MTC Sarah has responsibility for the finance, commercial and standards corporate departments alongside leading MTC's UK acquisition team.
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Dave Butler
Head of Development and SolutionsDave has over 24 years’ experience within the Home Office having joined at assistant officer grade and left at senior civil service grade. Dave has a wealth of Immigration operational experience from the ground up. Dave’s early career was spent as an Immigration Officer and Chief Immigration Officer investigating offences, conducting arrests and authorising detention.
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As Dave progressed up the grades, he led large-scale Immigration teams and complex high-profile operations within Immigration Enforcement, Border Force and Asylum & Protection departments.
Dave’s current role supports business and operational development and growth including solution design.
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Harry Porter
Director of HR and CommunicationsHarry has over 15 years' experience in human resources (HR), managing resourcing, employee relations and talent experience. In his current and previous roles, he has led on people projects that have seen increased performance levels, employee engagement, efficiencies and customer satisfaction. His key skills include mobilisation, people strategy development, talent acquisition and management, wellbeing and employee experience.
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At MTC, Harry supports the senior leadership team to ensure corporate aims and organisational objectives are achieved, while driving forwards the people strategy and communications initiatives. Harry is also Chartered MCIPD.
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Ciara Ryan
Director of FinanceCiara has over 20 years’ experience in accounting, having qualified with AAT and ACCA. She previously worked for ING Bank, Strutt and Parker LLP, and Zoopla Limited, specialising in Real Estate. Ciara’s key areas of expertise include management of finance teams, monthly consolidation and reporting, budgeting and forecasting, leading on year-end audits, statutory accounts and tax reporting.
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Her work at MTC involves overseeing the finance team, with ultimate responsibility for all management reporting and external audit and tax reporting.
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Michael Snodden
Director of Transformation, Operations and DigitalMichael has worked in programme delivery for nearly 25 years, covering multiple domains including space & satellite communications, healthcare and secure government contracts. Michael is experienced in leading large-scale, customer-centric programmes to deliver meaningful, measurable benefits to the workplace.
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Michael’s current role has him leading MTC’s digital, mobilisation and operational divisions.
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Lee Strank
Contract ManagerLee is an experienced senior manager with over 10 years’ experience in the justice sector. In his previous roles he has led teams managing the welfare and care of children ensuring contractual compliance across a range of services including healthcare, education and psychology. More recently he has led the operational mobilisation of Home Office contracts including AASC hotels and Manston STHF.
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Lee is currently the Contract Manager for MTC at Manston accountable for the operational and strategic delivery of services ensuring compliance with legislative and contractual requirements.
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Chris White
Director of Health, Safety, Estates and Business Process OfficeChris has over 13 years' experience in facilities and estate management, previously working at Tarmac, CarillionAmey and Amey and mobilising and operating outsourced contracts for the Home Office, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Justice, HMPPS and local authorities. He is experienced in managing large scale projects and continuous improvement, implementing improvements across the organisation.
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His work at MTC involves managing all health, safety and estates elements of MTC, including mobilising new estates as needed and ensuring continuous adherence to health and safety requirements across the organisation.
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Olivia Richards
Executive Assistant, Company Secretary and Internal Comms LeadOlivia is an experienced executive assistant, having worked in the field since 2016. She joined MTC in 2021 and provides valuable support to our managing director and the senior leadership team. In addition to her assistant duties, Olivia also carries out company secretary tasks.
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A key part of Olivia's role at MTC is managing internal communications for our UK business. She takes a keen interest in employee wellbeing, ensuring that it remains a priority in our day-to-day operations. Olivia also chairs the employee wellbeing ambassador committee and is a certified mental health first aider. Her focus on wellbeing and mental health support is an important part of her role at MTC.
