Our Leadership and Executive Advisory Team
Zenon Gray
CEO & Senior Partner
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Commodities
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Retail Banking
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Capital Markets
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Wealth Management
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Leadership
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Organisational Design & Transformation
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M&A and Post Acquisition Integration
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Data, Data Management, Data Plaforms
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Information Technology
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Risk - Market, Credit, Operational
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Profile
Zenon has held senior board level roles as CEO and Group CIO with 30 years experience across Capital Markets, Commodities, Retail Banking, Food Retail, Logistics, Consulting and Software sectors. Zenon has managed 1000's of resources in global multi-cultural teams driving major operational transformation, and mergers and acquisitions programmes.
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Maurice McDonald
Partner & Executive Director
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Wealth Management
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Retail Banking
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Investment Banking
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Insurance
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Leadership
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Regulatory Compliance
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Corporate Governance
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Conduct of Business
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Marketing, Client Communications & Distribution
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Mergers & Acquisitions
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Maurice has more than 25 years experience working across all sectors within financial services, but primarily focused on the Banking and Wealth Management sector. He has practical experience of supporting firms with implementing and embedding regulatory change (MiFID II, SM&CR and Consumer Duty) and more recently has been focused on supporting firms through the merger & acquisition process.
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David Bainton
COO & Partner
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Commercial Banking
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Commodities - Energy
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Wealth Management
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Global Logistics
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Leadership
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Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
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Organisational Design & Transformation
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Leadership Development
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People Data Profiling & Use of Psychometrics in Talent Management
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Profile
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David has held senior roles in Human Resources and General Management and has over 25 years consulting experience in the Automotive, Energy, Financial Services, Leisure Retail, Logistics and Telecommunications sectors. A certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and a member of the British Institute of Psychology, his passion is maximising value by enabling individuals to achieve their full potential and overcome the apparent constraints in corporate life.
Katy Maguire
Partner
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Oil & Gas
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Renewables
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Information Technology
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Professional Services
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Leadership
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Leadership Development
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Digital Strategy
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Product Launch
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Brand Event Management
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Profile
An ex-serving officer in the military with over 25 years' experience, Katy has worked with a number of highly established and global organisations both in the UK and internationally such as Disney, Google, McLaren and Maersk. An expert in business development, transforming senior leadership teams, launching new brands into the market, and with extensive experience of physical and digital products.​
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Jonathan Lane
Partner
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Oil & Gas
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Renewable Energy
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Commodities
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Infrastructure
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Leadership
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Mergers, Acquisitions & Disposals
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Emerging Markets: Africa, Central & SE Asia
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Capital Raising
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Econometrics
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Profile
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AJoanthan has over 15 years experience in project finance, direct private equity, private equity secondaries and M&A for listed corporates, private companies, investment funds and governments. Sector expertise includes natural resources, renewable energy and infrastructure. He has worked in both developed and emerging markets and is currently focused on projects in Africa, Central Asia and Southeast Asia. A British Citizen, he is fluent in French with a working knowledge of Spanish and some Japanese..​​​​​
Saeed Saddique
Partner
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Regulators
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Retail Finance
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IT & System Integrators
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Leadership
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Procurement & Contract Management
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Commercial & Legal
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Vendor Management
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Profile
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Saeed has over 15 years’ experience as a legal, commercial & contracts executive with both UK and International companies. He has extensive experience with national and global corporate businesses working with legal, procurement & finance teams. He specialises in contract & vendor management, working with corporate clients, third party vendors in IT transformation for technology companies. Saeed’s has advised many global organisations including the ECB, Equinix, Capita Group and CSC
Dr Guillermo G. Schiava D’Albano
Associate Partner
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Capital Markets
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Retail Banking
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Commercial Banking
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Insurance
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Leadership
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Enterprise Class Data Engineering
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Large Scale Data Warehousing
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Advanced Quantitive Analysis
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Big Data, DataBrick, Hadoop Technologies
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Profile
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Guilhermo is an internationally recognised leader in advanced data engineering within the Financial Services, Logistics and Retail sectors where huge data volumes drive complexity in design and place the most demanding expectations on technology solutions. Guilhermo leads our data science capabilities. Guilhermo has worked with some of the largest global banking organisations.
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Rob Millar
Associate Partner
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Retail Banking
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Commercial Banking
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Global Logistics
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Leadership
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Customer Experience Engineering
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Culture Change
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Strategic Transformation
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Profile
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Rob has over 20 years' experience of working globally with major brands across multiple industries. Rob is an internationally recognised thought leader in the discipline of customer-led change. Rob has worked across Financial Services, TMT, Retail, Utilities, B2B, Logistics, Real Estate, Utilities and Events. He has held senior MD and Partner roles in several leading international consulting organisations.
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Zaid Hameed
Associate Partner
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Retail Banking
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Insurance
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Wealth Management
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Leadership
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Information Technology
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Data management & Data Warehousing
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Regulatory Compliance
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Agile Software Development
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Zaid has extensive experienced of technology change across Insurance and Retail Banking. Zaid specialist in agile development and expert in testing strategies. Zaid began his consulting career at Accenture and has since built a reputation working with many leading financial services companies with an emphasis on data warehousing, data management and compliance programmes.
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Emma Movitz
Associate Partner
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Retail Banking
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Capital Markets
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Wealth Management
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Leadership
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Regulation & Compliance
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M&A
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Information Technology
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Women in Finance and IT
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Profile
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Senior leader with solid operational experience in the Banking & Finance industry, both locally and internationally.
Has, as a leader, implemented numerous practical and strategic change journeys, both as a result of regulatory changes, technological innovations, mergers and acquisitions, investments and cost efficiencies.
Has a large international and global network having studied in and/or worked directly with teams in the Nordics, UK, the Baltics and India amongst others.
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Toby Larkman
Associate Partner
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Wealth Management
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Pensions Industry
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Consulting & Professional Services​
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Leadership
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Strategic Transformation
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M&A and Post Acquisition Integration
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Financial And Operational Restructuring
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Commercial Strategy and Implementation
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Profile
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Toby is a highly skilled senior executive with extensive experience in commercial and operational executive positions. With a background in developing business strategy, delivering transformation and executing commercial deals, Toby specialises in bringing together diverse multi-functional and geographically remote teams to deliver results in high pressured situations.
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Matt Parry-Hann
Associate Partner
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Retail Banking
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SME Fintech and IT
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Wealth Management
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Commercial Banking
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Leadership
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Investor and Exit Strategy for SME's
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Fund Raising & Deal Execution
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Corporate Restructuring
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Profile
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Extensive cross boarder M&A experience with one of the leading city legal firms. A seasoned CEO and COO with complex transaction expertise to drive growth and diversification. Focused on bringing the disciplines of general council expertise with practical board level experience to small and medium enterprises during funding and M&A transactions.
Frances Edwards
Associate Partner
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Investment Management
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Asset Management
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Fintech
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Leadership
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Operations Leadership & Transformation
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Product Structuring, Management & Distribution
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Digital Assets
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Ex-COO of Blackrock with extensive change management and operating experience at board level and front line to auditors, investment company boards and regulators. Frances has recently been at the forefront advising new product / new market /new asset class innovative businesses within the Fintech sector at the intersection of Traditional Finance DeFi. Specialist in product structuring, management and distribution; exchange traded funds, mutual funds, structuted products and complex derivative instruments.
Barry Gould
Executive Advisor
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Capital Markets
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Commodities
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Fintech
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Leadership
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Technology Strategy
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Trading Systems
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Fintech
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AI and Data Engineering
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Barry has held various senior executive roles in technology, including over 26 years working in Investment banking, physical commodities and other areas of the financial services industry. He has worked for Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Citibank and Noble Group. Barry is currently Global Head of Technology at Concord Resources Limited. Barry specialises in implementing and remediating large complex technology solutions and working within the UK Fintech sector.
Danuta Gray
Executive Advisor
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Insurance
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Retail Banking
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Wealth Management
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Leadership
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​Sales Leadership
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Board Level Coaching
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Customer Relationship Management
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Profile
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Danuta has over 30 years experience in leadership, sales, marketing, customer services and technology. Danuta has held numerous Executive, Non-Executive and Chair positions at industry leading organisations such as: CEO of Telefonica O2 Ireland for 9 years and acting as a Non-Executive Director at Michael Page, Paddy Power and Aer lingus. Danuta has been working as Chair of Direct Line Insurance Group for the last 4 years.
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Lawrie Philpott
Executive Advisor
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Retail Banking
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Capital Markets
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Wealth Management
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Commercial Banking
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Leadership
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Organisational Design & Transformation
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Leadership Development
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Change Management
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Lawrie Philpott, formally head of Coopers & Lybrand's UK Human Resource Advisory Group and Partner-in-Charge at PwC, is a human resource, change management and organisation consultant with over 25 years' experience in the UK and internationally in both the public and private sectors. Lawrie leads his own consultancy organisation 'Philpott Black', that builds exceptional skills in business leaders and develop high performing leadership teams to deliver strategic business change
Peter Ward
Executive Advisor
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Engineering
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Consuting & Proefssional Services
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Pharnaceuticals
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Leadership
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Mergers & Acquisitions
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Leadership Development
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Culture Change
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Peter is a chartered accountant and was a partner with Deloitte. Peter works internationally with chief executives on the transformation of their businesses and their growth, both organically and through acquisition. Engagements have included the creation of strategic frameworks for long term growth, support for the execution of strategy, senior team development, the development of corporate culture, post-merger integration and the management of investors, customers and other key stakeholders.
Anne Adams PhD
Executive Advisor
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FMCG
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Retail Finance
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Pharmaceuticals
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Leadership
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Culture Change
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Leadership Development
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Organisational Transformation
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Profile
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Anne has worked with many Fortune 50 companies and educational institutions both nationally and internationally for more than 30 years. Anne's work has been with senior leaders and their teams from companies as varied as IBM, Mars, Heinz, AT&T, Lucent Technologies, Procter & Gamble, Prudential UK, The Hershey Company, EZ Communications, to government entities like the Pentagon and nonprofits, e.g. Institute of Noetic sciences (IONS), and schools throughout the United States and India.
Simon Rayne
Executive Advisor
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Consumer Electronic
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Manufacturing
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Telecommunications
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Leadership
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Sales Leadership
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Revenue Growth Specialist
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Culture Change
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Simon is a senior executive sales leader with a background in international positions covering networks, software, cloud and hardware sales aswell as CPG. He is an accredited coach, and is skilled in team development, C Level client relationships, customer success and operational excellence. Simon has a breadth of experience in Private Equity, Public and Blue Chip organisations such as LEGO, Microsoft and Nokia.