One senior leadership team for businesses that have outgrown the way they run
We are an advisory boutique with in-depth senior skills across technology, operations, go-to-market, people, AI and finance. We work with private equity-backed and founder-led businesses of £5m to £100m, and with global multinationals, shaping the right mix of senior leadership around each brief, whether that's one discipline or several working together.
WHEN GROWTH OUTPACES THE WAY THE BUSINESS RUNS
Most founders build the business on instinct and whatever tools did the job at the time. That's fine, right up to the point it isn't. A new investor wants numbers they can rely on. A bolt-on brings three more systems and a second way of doing everything.
The pipeline lives in spreadsheets, suppliers have multiplied, and nobody can say for sure what the technology budget is buying. None of that is failure. It's what success looks like before the operating model catches up. Our job is to help it catch up without losing what made the business work.
EXPERIENCE OUR TEAM BRINGS
30+ years in technology and operations leadership, including Executive Committee level
About 500% increase in CRM usage after a global Salesforce deployment
Over 20% cut from operating costs, during high inflation
26 stores in a year, mainly in tier 1 cities in China, for a global retailer
Close to US$1 billion of strategic programmes led
THE OPERATING BASELINE
The Operating Baseline is a fixed-scope diagnostic of your systems, data and operating model, taking about five days of senior time over about four weeks. You get a plain-English board summary, a costed roadmap and a view of the leadership you need.
WHO WE WORK WITH
PE INVESTORS & OPERATING PARTNERS
PE investors and operating partners whose portfolio companies need to professionalise quickly and be ready for exit.
FOUNDER & OWNER-LED CEOS
Founder and owner-led CEOs and boards who want large-company insight without large-company overhead.
GLOBAL MULTINATIONALS
Global multinationals running regional programmes, separations or integrations.