The NicerExec Partnership
Build a portfolio career that competes with the biggest firms
NicerExec is a partnership for experienced independent leaders, consultants and fractional executives. We combine a recognised brand, proprietary Talent Intelligence technology and shared go-to-market support to help you win larger engagements, diversify your income and build a lasting portfolio career.

Join a rapidly growing community of partners, who have delivered work at leading organisations



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Brilliant operators lose out to bigger brands every day
You've got the experience and the track record. But independent consulting is a hard game — and too often the work goes to firms with a brand, a pipeline and a product behind them.
No brand behind you
You're a one-man band — clients see more risk, and the best assignments go to firms with a brand behind them.
Hard to open doors
Opening doors is hard — without a reason to talk, you're just another consultant asking for a meeting.
Feast or famine
The pipeline is feast or famine — you're either delivering or selling, never both.
Outgunned by the big firms
You're up against the big consultancies — more people, more tools, more credibility in the room.
NicerExec changes that.
The advantage isn't having more experience. It's having a better way to sell it.
Large consultancies don't win because they're smarter.
They win because they have a recognised brand, proprietary products, repeatable sales processes and teams behind every engagement.
NicerExec gives independent operators those same advantages—without taking away their independence.
WHAT YOU GET
A partnership built to grow your business
Everything an independent operator is missing — the brand, the technology, the network and the support — in one partnership.
A brand that opens doors
Sell under a trusted corporate consulting brand. Less risk for clients, higher perceived value, and access to bigger, more interesting assignments — no longer just a one-man band.
Technology no one else has
Open conversations and win preferential access with unique talent, culture and organisation intelligence. Once deployed, it embeds — tracking progress and keeping you close to the client.
Central marketing & sales support
Plug into central marketing activity across multiple channels, and bring experienced Sales Partners into your meetings — so you're never selling alone, or from scratch.
Multiple ways to earn
Become an approved reseller: licence, consulting and coaching revenue. Add fractional and interim roles, paid content and courses — even earning from work you pass to other Partners.
A shared network behind you
You're not alone. Collaborate in go-to-market teams, tap the partner network and interest groups, and swap what's working at quarterly conferences.
Training & enablement
Get trained on the platform and every use case, on product-led selling that beats bigger firms, and on coaching — with branded sales collateral and reference cases ready to use.
THE TECHNOLOGY
NicerTeams – The product that gets you into the room – and keeps you there.
A platform that captures the full picture of an organisation's people and turns it into the intelligence leaders and investors act on. It opens the conversation, then embeds.
Your unfair advantage in every room
The platform creates the reason for the conversation, provides the insight that shapes the engagement, and continues generating intelligence long after the initial project—helping you win work, deliver greater value and build longer-term client relationships.
Gets you the meeting
The product is your reason to talk — leaders will open up to have their people analysed, when they'd never sit through another pitch.
Outguns the big firms
You lead with a verified, data-led view — and win on evidence, not on brand, slideware or day rate.
Keeps you in the room
Once it's deployed it keeps producing intelligence — so you stay embedded, not one-and-done.


A proprietary talent & culture intelligence technology
At the heart of NicerExec is our proprietary Talent & Culture Intelligence Platform. It gives organisations a data-driven view of their people, leadership and culture—creating insights that become the foundation for higher-value consulting engagements.
✅ Leadership Effectiveness
✅ Organisation Design
✅ Transformation Readiness
✅ Recruitment & Role Fit
✅ Culture & Behaviour
✅ Capability & Skills
✅ AI Workforce Readiness
✅ Value Creation & Due Diligence
THE WORK YOU'LL DO
A complete portfolio of transformation solutions.
Rather than building one consulting offer yourself, you'll be trained to deliver a portfolio of proven solutions powered by Talent Intelligence.
Build high-performing leadership teams
Build stronger leaders, identify future talent and develop leadership capability aligned to business goals.
Team due diligence
See the real team risk before you invest — assess leadership capability, culture and execution certainty across a target, pre-deal.
Delivering value creation plans
Make sure the value creation plan actually gets delivered — with clear intelligence on whether your people can execute it, from day one.
AI workforce readiness
Prepare your workforce for AI — see how it reshapes roles, whether your people are ready, and how to lead the change.
Target operating model design
Design an operating model your people can actually run — built on real capability and how teams work, not just lines and boxes.
Culture Transformation
Transform your culture and make it stick — see the culture you really have, and shift it from the ground up through your people.
Recruitment
Hire the right people, not the best CV — match candidates on genuine fit and capability, from verified profiles.
WHO IT'S FOR
Built for proven operators ready to go further
NicerExec is for senior, experienced people who now work for themselves — and want to build something bigger than they can alone. If that sounds like you, read on.
This is for you if...
THE PEOPLE WHO JOIN US
Independent consultants & boutique founders
With their own clients, looking to grow and win bigger.
Fractional & interim executives
CxOs delivering hands-on across businesses.
Portfolio leaders & NEDs
Advising and steering across several companies.
Executive & leadership coaches
Deepening their impact, reach and revenue.
Experienced leaders going independent
Taking senior corporate expertise to market.
✅ You've operated at a senior level — C-suite, partner or senior leadership
✅ You now work for yourself — consulting, fractional, interim or portfolio
✅ You want to win bigger, better clients — and compete with the big firms
✅ You want to grow and diversify your income
✅ You'd rather build with a network behind you than go it alone
THE COMMERCIAL UPSIDE
More than one way to earn — and higher margins doing it
Higher day rates and margins than going alone. With centralised client management, contracting and invoicing handled for you — so you spend your time on the work, not the admin.
Reseller licence revenue
Consulting revenue
Coaching revenue
Fractional & interim roles
Paid content & courses
Passive income from referrals
WHY NICEREXEC
Built to help independent operators outperform the big firms.
What sets NicerExec apart from every other network, associate model or lead list you've been offered.
Unique intelligence platform
Talent, culture and organisation analytics no competitor can match.
Centralised CRM & client intelligence
Shared client insight and analytics, plus managed go-to-market processes.
Unique propositions to sell
Executives on Demand and Teams Transformation through analytics.
A trusted, verified network
Proven operators — not a bench of inexperienced graduates.
Central marketing & managed GTM
A central team running campaigns and go-to-market processes you plug into.
Access to pre-CXO operators
Leverage other Partners' relationships, industry expertise and client base.
Higher margins, less admin
Centralised contracting and invoicing, higher day rates, Sales Partner support.
Built to beat the big firms
A highly differentiated offer that lets you compete — and win — against them.
Join a verified community of proven operators.
Experienced executives across financial services, fintech, technology and beyond — every one verified, not a name on a list. The company you keep is part of the value.

Zenon Gray
Partner
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.
Sectors
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Commodities
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Retail Banking
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Capital Markets
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Wealth Management
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

Maurice McDonald
Partner
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.
Sectors
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Wealth Management
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Retail Banking
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Investment Banking
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Insurance
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

Dr. Ruth Wandhöfer
Partner
Over 25 years of broad senior leadership experience across a diverse set of sectors, Dr. Ruth is a leading autority at the crossroads of finance, technology, cybersecurity and regulation. A former Global MD at Citi, over the last 8 years Ruth combines roles as independent Non-Executive Director, Cybersecurity Executive, Author, Adviser to goverment, VC and Angel Investor , supporting banking, technology, FinTech and cybersecurity. She is a global keynote speaker, futurist and Visiting Professor at Bayes Business School.
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Global Transaction Banking
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European/Global Trade Bodies
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Public Sector
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FinTech
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Academia
Leadership
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Payments
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Regulatory Strategy
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Technology Strategy
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Governance

Henri Perusset
Partner
Sectors
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Equities & FICC
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Client Coverage & Sales
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Wealth Management
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Market Infrastructure & Fintechs
Leadership
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Strategy & Business Transformation
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Innovation & Fintechs
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Organisational Effectiveness & Talent Management
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Corporate Governance
Henri has held senior managing director roles as Head of Business Development, COO, and Chief of Staff across all divisions of Financial Markets and Securities Services. Over a 30 year career at UBS and HSBC with postings in Asia and Continental Europe, Henri has mobilised and delivered high returns revenue growth initiatives and including Private Credit, Prime, Transaction Banking and Wealth strategies. He has led Fintech engagements, M&A and assumed numerous board memberships. He leads strategy development and execution, leading M&A, shaping AI for business success, running global governance, implementing major infrastructure programmes, and setting up operational risk frameworks.

Anna Mitchell
Partner
Sectors
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Professional Services
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Manufacturing & Distribution – Auto, Textiles, Pest Control
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FMCG
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Private Equity
Leadership
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C-Level Leadership
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Board Governance
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Turnaround, Change Management, Organisational Design
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Corporate Communications
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Reputation and Risk Management
A commercial business leader with deep expertise in reputation, change, stakeholder and risk management and more than 20 years’ international experience at senior and executive level in public, privately held and PE-backed US and UK headquartered companies. Anna has experience in Managing Director/P&L roles, restructuring, building and managing teams across geographies and functions. Anna has advised companies in professional services, consumer goods, automotive, manufacturing, engineering and PE operations.

Dale Emmerson
Partner
Sectors
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Energy Trading
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Oil & Gas
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Renewable Energy
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Commodities
Leadership
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Mergers, Acquisitions & Disposals
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Trading CTRM & ETRM Solutions
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Strategy and Transformation
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Market Analysis
A strategic partner who exemplifies professionalism, strategic insight, and business growth. Capable and adaptable with proven exposure to international consulting in the energy, financial and commodity markets. A former big-four consultant, able to engage with senior stakeholders in complex matrix organisations. Differentiators include exceptional presentation and communication skills, on-time delivery, and a focus on quality.

Denise Obsajsnik
Partner
Sectors
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Commercial Banking
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Private Markets
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Asset Management
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Social Impact and ClimateTech
Leadership
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Transformation
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Sustainability
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Governance
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Leadership Development
Over 25 years extensive senior leadership experience across mutliple banking sectors. Denise has led large scale complex transformation projects spanning many geographical regions. In the past 5 years Denise has worked on enterprise initiatives financing sustainability initiatives. A recognised leader in the ESG and its impact on banking and client businesses. Denise has held at senior management positions with HSBC and Northern Trust in the past 10 years.

Saeed Saddique
Partner
Sectors
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Regulators
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Retail Finance
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IT & System Integrators
Leadership
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Procurement & Contract Management
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Commercial & Legal
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Vendor Management
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
Partner
Sectors
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Information Technology
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Professional Services
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Manufacturing & Retail
Leadership
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People Leadership & People Development
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Cultural Change Management
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Enterprise Software Sales
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.

Amit Dass
Partner
Sectors
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Private Equity
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Fintech & RegTech
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Media
Leadership
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M&A and Pre/Post-Acquisition Integration
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Financial Turnaround & Restructuring
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Strategy and Transformation
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Commercial & Legal
Amit is a Partner with over 25 years' experience, with nearly 15 years as a CFO/COO for PE/VC Fintech firms servicing the financial services sector across asset management, capital markets and regulatory compliance. He has been involved in over 25 M&A transactions including 2 PE buy and build platforms and a MBO of a global financial media firm. Amit has significant turnaround expertise implementing financial and operational rigour. He has overseen several acquisition integration and change management programs realising planned synergies has instituted wide ranging governance programs.

Thomas Coles
Partner
Sectors
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Professional Services
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Technology
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Insurance and Wealth Management
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Commodities
Leadership
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Sales Transformation
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Sales Due Diligence
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Demand Generation
Public speaker and consultant generating £millions of revenue for clients specifically through referrals in any sector and more widely through B2B sales transformation. Particular expertise in the most complex B2B sales cycles, with additional applicability in SaaS and such like.

Crispin Proctor
Partner
Sectors
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Retail Banking
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Insurance
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Fintech
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Retail
Leadership
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Scaling IT Operations for Growth Businesses
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Cybersecurity
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Data Management
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Large Scale Data Solutions
Crispin Proctor is an accomplished senior technology leader with extensive experience of transforming businesses IT operations in financial service global businesses, fintech and retail. His expertise focuses on scaling and building high-performing teams, building resilient technology infrastructures, driving data innovation and cybersecurity.
Passionate about delivering scalable and secure solutions, Crispin thrives in fast-paced, highly regulated environments, aligning technology strategy with business goals to create transformative value.

Katy Maguire
Partner
Sectors
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Oil & Gas
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Renewables
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Information Technology
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Professional Services
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
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.

Dr Guillermo G. Schiava D’Albano
Partner
Sectors
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Capital Markets
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Retail Banking
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Commercial Banking
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Insurance
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
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
Partner
Sectors
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Retail Banking
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Commercial Banking
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Global Logistics
Leadership
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Customer Experience Engineering
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Culture Change
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Strategic Transformation
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
Partner
Sectors
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Retail Banking
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Insurance
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Wealth Management
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
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.

Pooja Kaul
Partner
Sectors
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Retail Banking
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Asset Management
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Fintech
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Professional Services & Consulting
Leadership
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HR & People Transformation
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Organisation Design & Operating Model Design
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M&A (People, Culture & TUPE)
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Behavioural Change & Culture Integration
A senior HR and Change leader with over 14 years’ international experience, with a track record of working with leading organisations across regulated, high-growth, and complex environments in the UK, Europe, and internationally. An expert in HR transformation, end-to-end M&A integration, embedding HR strategies, and designing operating models that drive organisational impact. C-suite partner to align leadership, organisation design, and reward strategies, delivering people solutions that balance regulatory compliance with cultural cohesion and business growth. Combines deep technical expertise with a pragmatic, results-driven approach to ensure timely delivery.

Yvonne Anderson
Partner
Sectors
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Financial Services
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Professional Services
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Consulting
Leadership
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Organisational Development
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Leadership Development
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Culture Transformation
Yvonne is a highly experienced Board level People and Organisational Development professional, Executive Coach and business owner. With a background in Financial Services, Investment Banking and Professional Services, she has both operational and strategic expertise and specialises in working in partnership with rapidly growing and/or transforming organisations. Yvonne is able to evidence the significant difference that can be made to an organisation's efficiency and financial strength through a focus on well-executed People Strategy and supporting Leadership Teams to grow and develop through culture transformation.

Emma Movitz
Partner
Sectors
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Retail Banking
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Capital Markets
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Wealth Management
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
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.

Matt Parry-Hann
Partner
Sectors
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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
Leadership
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Cross Border M&A
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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
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
Partner
Sectors
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Investment Management
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Asset Management
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Fintech
Leadership
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Operations Leadership & Transformation
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Product Structuring, Management & Distribution
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Digital Assets
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
Partner
Sectors
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Financial Services
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Regulated Utilities
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Payments - Fintech
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Private Equity
Leadership
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Treasury Management
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Risk Management
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Debt Financing
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Treasury System Implementation
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.

Toby Larkman
Partner
Sectors
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Wealth Management
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Pensions Industry
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Consulting & Professional Services
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
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.

Rujuta Singh
Partner
Sectors
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Retail Banking
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Insurance, Reinsurance
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Private Equity
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Technology & SaaS
Leadership
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AI Strategy & Innovation Labs
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Organisational Agility
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Change Management & Adoption
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Post M&A Integration
Rujuta has led transformation programs across Fortune 500 companies for 22+ years, combining technical expertise with human-centered change management. Rujuta now specilaises in AI strategy and organizational agility helping organisations to quickly identify opportunities and move into practical pilots.
Rujuta has worked with organisations such as Renaissance Re guiding their post-M&A integration, Rujuta is a master facilitator who combines strategic transformation expertise with rapid innovation methodologies that help teams co-create solutions and ensure sustainable adoption.

Mark Stanton-Bennett
Partner
Sectors
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Capital Markets
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FinTech
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Renewable Energy
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Digital Assets & Tokenisation
Leadership
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Product Strategy & Commercial GTM
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Strategic Foresight & Scenario Modelling
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Data & AI Strategy
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Technology & Innovation Strategy
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.

Jonathan Lane
Partner
Sectors
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Oil & Gas
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Renewable Energy
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Commodities
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Infrastructure
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
Jonathan 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..

Robert Cotton
Partner
Sectors
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Professional ServicesOil & Gas
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Information Technology
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FMCG
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Logistics
Leadership
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Information Technology & Digital Transformation
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Commercial Strategy & Execution
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Change Management & Turnaround
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Leadership & People Development
A seasoned business leader with over 30 years’ experience working in the IT sector, running product and services business across a range of industries and geographies. Bob has operated at executive level in the US, UK, Europe and India. He has a track record of achieving consistent profitability and sustained growth in the businesses he has led, with a focus on delivering differentiated customer value. He has decades of experience advising clients on how to transform their business by applying best practices and digital technology. He is passionate about supporting clients drive excellence across all elements of their business or organisation – people, process and platforms.

John Fulton
Partner
Sectors
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Private Equity
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Infrastructure & Energy
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Fintech
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Emerging and Frontier Markets
Leadership
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Strategic Finance & Treasury
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M&A and Pre/Post- Acquisition Integration
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Debt & Equity Fund Raising
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Financial Turnaround & Restructuring
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Global Liquidity Management
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.

Anne Adams. PhD.
ACS
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.

Lawrie Philpott
CEO - Phillpot Black
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.

Danuta Gray
Chair - Direct Line Insurance Group
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.

Peter Ward
Chairman - Telos Partners
Peter is a chartered accountant and was a partner with Deloitte and, through merger, Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC) for 15 years. He was a member of the Tomorrow’s Company Inquiry, which inspired his move to consulting on the development of businesses and organisations to achieve long-term sustainable success. Peter works internationally with chief executives on the transformation of their businesses and their growth, both organically and through acquisition.

Rob Millar
Director - Devonshire & St Andrews
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

Emma Movitz
Senior People & Data Transformation Consultant
Emma is a senior executive leader with a solid operational experience from the world of Finance, both locally in Nordics and internationally. As a leader Emma has conducted many change management journeys, both strategic and with practical implications through regulatory change, technological innovations, merger and acquisitions, other investments and cost efficiency initiatives. Emma has a broad international and global network through work and studies in the Nordics, UK, Europe and India.

Simon Rayne
MD & Revenue Growth Specialist
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.

Barry Gould
CTO - Concord Resources Limited
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 and has also worked for the UK Government at the Home Office. Barry is currently Global Head of Technology at Concord Resources Limited. Barry has a very broad range of experience and skill sets together with a track record of building, implementing and remediating large complex technology solutions for many organisations. Barry is also involved with a number of UK Internet start-up companies and also works as a mentor for TechStars UK.

Alex Laurie
GTM CTO - Ping Identity
Alex brings extensive go-to-market executive experience with a track record of scaling growth-stage and enterprise software companies to deliver successful outcomes for investors and boards. He has extensive experience operating in VC/PE environments, preparing businesses for IPO, and strategic sale. A recognised leader for helping US security technology companies establish and strengthen their GTM presence in EMEA. A pioneer in embedding artificial intelligence into go-to-market strategy, designing and deploying AI-driven revenue engines that create differentiated market positioning.
