Unlocking action. Driving results.

Strategic change
Execution planning
Senior mentorship
M&A and fundraising

About us

Advising businesses and mentoring leaders with a no-nonsense approach to unlocking action and driving results.

We are experienced senior executives and business advisers — mentoring and advising businesses at all stages of development.

Meet the experts

Seasoned advisers

Our co-founders, Rob Barnett and Michael Walton, are highly credible professionals with an extensive foundation as senior executives and a track record of delivering results from the executive chair.

As founders, Rob and Michael are the key advisors and mentors, deploying decades of experience and advice.

Should additional support be needed in execution, we also work with a trusted network of capable associates and colleagues across multiple disciplines.

Michael Walton

Founder

Michael Walton
Rob Barnett

Founder

Rob Barnett

Our expertise

We bring over 70 years of multi-sector experience.

From start-ups and SMEs to significant international corporations, we have collaborated for many years — working with interesting people to support low, single-digit-million to multi-billion business exits.

So, if you are thinking, ‘What do I do now?’, we can help you take the next step.

We are founder-led.

We deliver with you — we do not pass the relationship onto less experienced team members.

We tell it as it is.

Time matters in business — we focus and cut to the core.

We engage.

Your business will be as important to us as it is to you.

We scope and act with you to accelerate the delivery of results.

We can be with you at every stage — whatever works best for you.

Our experience

Tech start-ups

We have supported start-ups from origination to exit across social media, new industrial technologies, healthcare, sales and marketing platforms, auction, KYB and payment systems, insurance, environment, property and change consultancy.

Key achievements include:

  • Supporting a start-up to $110m sale to a global IT titan.
  • Supporting a tech business on trade sale circa £10m.
  • Advising a healthcare tech platform in period of phenomenal growth.

Major international businesses

We have had executive leadership and Board responsibility for international businesses, delivering significant change and value creation to turn these businesses into multi-billion enterprises.

Key achievements include:

  • Implementation of HR, product and IT restructuring — taking £3.5bn business to £5.5bn sale.
  • French operating platform acquired for €320m and sold for €750m after a strategy was set followed by intense management and product focus.

European joint ventures

We have structured four joint ventures with a clear strategy objective that produced excellent results for both parties in each case.

M&A 

Over our careers, we have started, acquired, merged, integrated and sold numerous businesses — from low, double-digit million to multi-billion transactions.

These businesses span multiple sectors, including tech, healthcare, financial services and societal infrastructure sectors. In particular, we have unique transactional experience in the charity sector.

Transformation programme delivery

We have defined and led significant transformation programmes for internationally recognised brands.

Our core focus is execution delivery, covering:

  • Strategy and execution plan creation.
  • Multi-million IT/OT.
  • Business process reengineering.
  • Leadership, people and culture.
  • Property.
  • Capital delivery.
  • Financial control.