Our Leadership and Executive Advisory Team

Zenon Gray

CEO & Senior Partner

Sectors

Commodities
Retail Banking
Capital Markets
Wealth Management

Leadership

Organisational Design & Transformation
M&A and Post Acquisition Integration
Data, Data Management, Data Plaforms
Information Technology
Risk - Market, Credit, Operational

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.

Maurice McDonald

Partner & Executive Director

Sectors

Wealth Management
Retail Banking
Investment Banking
Insurance

Leadership

Regulatory Compliance
Corporate Governance
Conduct of Business
Marketing, Client Communications & Distribution
Mergers & Acquisitions

Profile

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.

David Bainton

COO & Partner

Sectors

Commercial Banking
Commodities - Energy
Wealth Management
Global Logistics

Leadership

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
Organisational Design & Transformation
Leadership Development
People Data Profiling & Use of Psychometrics in Talent Management

Profile

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.

John Fulton

Partner

Sectors

Private Equity
Infrastructure & Energy
Fintech
Emerging and Frontier Markets

Leadership

Strategic Finance & Treasury
M&A and Pre/Post- Acquisition Integration
Debt & Equity Fund Raising
Financial Turnaround & Restructuring
Global Liquidity Management

Profile

John has held board-level and Group CFO/Group Treasurer roles for over 25 years, operating across emerging markets, private equity, financial services, and infrastructure. He has led high-impact finance and treasury transformations across Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa, with experience spanning insurtech scaleups, large LBOs, and distressed turnarounds. John’s has held executive leadership at Ashmore Energy, Agria Corporation, Coca-Cola HBC and Cadbury PLC He has delivered complex cross-border financings, bond issuances & restructuring, and structured capital solutions under pressure.

Katy Maguire

Partner

Sectors

Oil & Gas
Renewables
Information Technology
Professional Services

Leadership

Leadership Development
Digital Strategy
Product Launch
Brand Event Management

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.

Jonathan Lane

Partner

Sectors

Oil & Gas
Renewable Energy
Commodities
Infrastructure

Leadership

Mergers, Acquisitions & Disposals
Emerging Markets: Africa, Central & SE Asia
Capital Raising
Econometrics

Profile

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

Sectors

Regulators
Retail Finance
IT & System Integrators

Leadership

Procurement & Contract Management
Commercial & Legal
Vendor Management

Profile

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

Peter Clitheroe

Associate Partner

Sectors

Information Technology
Professional Services
Manufacturing & Retail

Leadership

People Leadership & People Development
Cultural Change Management
Enterprise Software Sales

Profile

Peter's experience lies within the Technology sales arena having worked within Global Technology companies for over 16 years. Peter has broad sector knowledge gained across international markets with experience selling to Retail & Manufacturing, Banking & Finance, Telecommunications and Technology companies. Peter has an established career in Sales Management, Leadership and Sales Operations that focuses on market growth and development of sales teams. Currently undertaking his Doctoral Research into Unethical Sales Management within Enterprise Software Sales, Peter is well positioned to advise on how Organisational Culture has a direct effect on salesforce behaviour and company results.

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Dr Guillermo G. Schiava D’Albano

Associate Partner

Sectors

Capital Markets
Retail Banking
Commercial Banking
Insurance

Leadership

Enterprise Class Data Engineering
Large Scale Data Warehousing
Advanced Quantitive Analysis
Big Data, DataBrick, Hadoop Technologies

Profile

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.

Rob Millar

Associate Partner

Sectors

Retail Banking
Commercial Banking
Global Logistics

Leadership

Customer Experience Engineering
Culture Change
Strategic Transformation

Profile

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.

Zaid Hameed

Associate Partner

Sectors

Retail Banking
Insurance
Wealth Management

Leadership

Information Technology
Data management & Data Warehousing
Regulatory Compliance
Agile Software Development

Profile

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.

Emma Movitz

Associate Partner

Sectors

Retail Banking
Capital Markets
Wealth Management

Leadership

Regulation & Compliance
M&A
Information Technology
Women in Finance and IT

Profile

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.

Toby Larkman

Associate Partner

Sectors

Wealth Management
Pensions Industry
Consulting & Professional Services

Leadership

Strategic Transformation
M&A and Post Acquisition Integration
Financial And Operational Restructuring
Commercial Strategy and Implementation

Profile

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.

Matt Parry-Hann

Associate Partner

Sectors

Retail Banking
SME Fintech and IT
Wealth Management
Commercial Banking

Leadership

Cross Border M&A
Investor and Exit Strategy for SME's
Fund Raising & Deal Execution
Corporate Restructuring

Profile

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

Sectors

Investment Management
Asset Management
Fintech

Leadership

Operations Leadership & Transformation
Product Structuring, Management & Distribution
Digital Assets

Profile

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.

Tom Fuller

Associate Partner

Sectors

Financial Services
Regulated Utilities
Payments - Fintech
Private Equity

Leadership

Treasury Management
Risk Management
Debt Financing
Treasury System Implementation

Profile

Experience Head of Treasury working across multiple sectors in Financial Services with extensive knowledge of Payments Fintech. In-depth knowledge of Money Markets, FX hedging, IR Swaps, hedging strategies, cashflow modelling. Tom has implemented many of the leading treasury management systems and integrated into core finance operations.

Barry Gould

Executive Advisor

Sectors

Capital Markets
Commodities
Fintech

Leadership

Technology Strategy
Trading Systems
Fintech
AI and Data Engineering

Profile

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

Sectors

Insurance
Retail Banking
Wealth Management

Leadership

Sales Leadership
Board Level Coaching
Customer Relationship Management

Profile

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.

Lawrie Philpott

Executive Advisor

Sectors

Retail Banking
Capital Markets
Wealth Management
Commercial Banking

Leadership

Organisational Design & Transformation
Leadership Development
Change Management

Profile

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

Sectors

Engineering
Consuting & Proefssional Services
Pharnaceuticals

Leadership

Mergers & Acquisitions
Leadership Development
Culture Change

Profile

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

Sectors

FMCG
Retail Finance
Pharmaceuticals

Leadership

Culture Change
Leadership Development
Organisational Transformation

Profile

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

Sectors

Consumer Electronic
Manufacturing
Telecommunications

Leadership

Sales Leadership
Revenue Growth Specialist
Culture Change

Profile

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.