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NicerCapital

Build a High-Income Consulting Business – With Brand, Tech & Clients Behind You

Join a select group of accredited partners helping companies transform through AI-powered tools and proven consulting frameworks.

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Built by Senior Leaders — For Senior Leaders

Book an Intro call with CEO & Senior Partner - Zenon Gray

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. 

What is NicerCapital? 

Transforming and Innovating
Financial Services & Fintech Organisations

 

NicerCapital is a next-gen consulting model built for experienced executives who want to lead high-value transformation work, but without the overhead of building from scratch.
 

You’ll become an accredited partner of a fast-growing firm, delivering value using proven IP and powerful tech used by major brands.
 

✔️ Earn £300k–£1M+
✔️ Leverage brand, IP, training & leads
✔️ Work independently, backed by a platform
✔️ Access and leverage the experienced partner network

Who is this for?

  • Former executives and senior consultants now operating independently or planning to

  • Fractional CXOs, advisors or transformation experts with a strong network

  • Professionals who want to lead transformation work but avoid the “feast and famine” of solo consulting

  • Entrepreneurial leaders who want equity, upside, and autonomy

Meet our NicerCapital Partners

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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.   

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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..​​​​​

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Saeed Saddique

Partner

Sectors

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  • Regulators

  • Retail Finance

  • IT & System Integrators

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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

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Mark Stanton-Bennett

Partner

Sectors

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  • Capital Markets

  • FinTech

  • Renewable Energy 

  • Digital Assets & Tokenisation

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Leadership

  • Product Strategy & Commercial GTM

  • Strategic Foresight & Scenario Modelling

  • Data & AI Strategy

  • Technology & Innovation Strategy

Profile

Mark is a highly experienced and commercially successful product & technology leader.  Mark has extensive software engineering and commercial product management expertise in capital markets electronic trading and analytics at tier 1 investment banks, asset managers and inter-dealer brokers.  In the last 5 years Mark has been consulting in fractional CPO, CTO and strategic board advisory roles. Predominantly to venture backed scale businesses, venture capital funds and UK government.  Mark is leading Nicer's investment into Agent Based Modelling to drive strategic decision insight on operational resilience and the impact of adopting AI into organisations to complement human resource capabilities.

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Peter Clitheroe

Associate Partner

Sectors

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  • Information Technology

  • Professional Services 

  • Manufacturing & Retail

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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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Katy Maguire

Associate 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.​

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Toby Larkman

Associate Partner

Sectors

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  • 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.

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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. 

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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.

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Tom Fuller

Associate Partner

Sectors

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  • 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.

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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. 

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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