Cross-Border M&A : Merger of two Toronto and Vienna-listed portfolio businesses operating across 37 businesses in 22 countries with 2,300 employees with a combined EV of C$450m. Worked as part of CEO’s office with Chief Value Officer to create coherent global strategy in which both the cost and market synergies could be realised in the Vision to create a C$1bn global group.
Read MoreConcentra: Review product portfolio, brand and culture for the world’s leading organisational data analytics SaaS provider in advance of US expansion strategy and £41 million growth equity investment led by One Peak Partners
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Berlitz Language Schools: act as part of transformation team for Princeton-based business operating across 70 territories but on verge of death spiral: comprehensive research programme into growing $30bn market, opportunity identification and recommendations to realign the product, culture and brand around the digital-first/global-first generation. Execution stage in progress now.
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Law Firm Strategy: Realigning top UK law firm to major trends in the media, entertainment and technology markets – from market research through to driving a new Vision-led business strategy, cultural evolution plan and go-to-market approach. Strategy will take them into the very top tier or UK law firms in terms of profitability (50%+) via controlled growth. 160-day field-to-fork plan to define the strategy and drive an execution focused culture. Value measured in £ms in incremental profitability, staff retention, a culture of excellence and intrinisc curiosity in their sector and reduced risk as the Firm takes the next stage in their journey.
Read MoreDeutsche Börse Group AG (FWB: DB1): Integration of myriad of data businesses accumulated through years of acquisitions by Germany’s leading stock market to leverage the 'new world' thirst for intelligence from big data accounting for 2bn euros (10%) of DBA's total value. Today, it is worth 2.8bn. In addition, identified two major areas of €35m of future accretive value tucked invisbly away inside the portfolio that simply had gone unnotived (a UK based RegTech business and a New York based Central Bank's Intelligence service).
Read MoreRe-engineering a Technical Publisher to an as-a-Service: Bring new competitive advantage to a technical publishing house that was once dominant market leader but is now rapidly losing market share to new digital-first entrants. Without breaking confidences, my recommendation was
Move from being product led to being brand led (typical publishing)
Transition from publishing paradigm to owning their knowledge area as specialist workflow intelligence
From printing, sales and subscriptions to Intelligence-as-a-Service