I deliver operational restructurings taking short notice Chair, CEO, CRO or Advisor roles at organisations often with significant infrastructure in the community.
Steering clients through complex key phases involving foreshortened timescales, imperfect histories with financial and reputational risks. Circumstances have included post-acquisition discoveries, regulatory or market events, unplanned media, cyber attack, equitisations, follow-on capital, disputes and managed exits or process.
I actively lead, coach and supplement existing boards and management to recapture value and successfully bridge with sponsors, shareholders and lender groups. Frequently this also includes rebuilding trust with regulators, trade creditors and end users, requiring both commercial judgement and emotional intelligence.
Pressing time and cash runways require me to lead accelerated changes of strategy, liquidity and forecast management, redefining management structures, goals and incentives.
When appropriate, I orchestrate and maximise input from professional advisory firms, many of whose panels I am a member of.
I have previously led large state scale workforces often with highly skilled and respected professionals in highly regulated entities covering most business formats across Europe, Middle
East, Africa, Asia and Australasia encompassing:
My governance, structure and transactions experience has been honed serving on, or leading multiple company Boards with listed status, syndicated lender groups, family office, private equity or other international fund involvement.
Public domain assignments have included rescuing the Castlebeck Group following the BBC Panorama expose at its Winterbourne View site. Multiple distressed NHS Trusts. The UK’s largest combined public and community transport group HCT, Voltcom Group, Care Principles Group, Geobind, Age UK, HM Govt’s HCPC Regulator, Rutherford Cancer Group plc, G2 Energy, NRS Group and others.
I have personally briefed State Premiers, UK Ministers including the PM as well as providing evidence to Parliamentary Committees in the UK and internationally.
2014 Voted by industry UK Turnaround Practitioner of the Year
2018 Public Sector Turnaround of the Year
2021 Independent Turnaround Advisor of the Year
Fellow, Institute for Turnaround. Fellow, Royal Society of Medicine