We are a hands-on investor and operating firm. We put senior operators inside the companies capital owns - as executives, board members and builders - and we stay until the work is done.
Talk to usWe work for owners: family offices, sovereign and institutional investors, founders and boards. Not for the management teams we're sent to help - for the people whose money is at stake. That distinction shapes everything about how we operate, what we report, and who hears the uncomfortable news first.
We work for owners, not for management.
Two weeks inside any business you own or want to own. What it's really worth operationally, what's broken, what we would do about it - delivered to you, not to the management team. Fixed scope, fixed fee, and the fastest way to find out whether you need us at all.
CEO, CTO or CPTO mandates through transformation, integration or scale-up. We run it, we don't observe it - and we hand it back stronger with a successor in place.
Standing counsel to owners and boards on technology, AI and value creation - the unglamorous work of making a plan real, quarter after quarter.
We've sat on your side of the table, and we've been the asset being diligenced. Both views show up in the report: what the technology is worth, what it will cost to fix, and whether the AI claims survive contact.
When a situation is already on fire, that's a different discipline. We handle distressed interventions through our dedicated practice, Project Red.
From Microsoft and the BBC to a £3bn family office and a US surgical AI platform. The record below is the firm's founding partner at work - open any case for the detail.
A pan-European family office wanted institutional-scale healthcare exposure but had no platform, no operating team and no deal flow in the sector. Over nine years we bought the seed assets and built the portfolio from a standing start across four pillars - pharmacy, diagnostic imaging, telemedicine and employee wellness - taking interim CEO and CTO mandates inside the operating companies when situations demanded it.
The captive technology subsidiary scaled 400% to support the platform across regulated markets, with development hubs built in Portugal, Ukraine and Bulgaria cutting group technology cost by a third.
A venture-backed surgical-intelligence platform, named to TIME's World's Top HealthTech Companies, was burning cash across an over-extended product estate. Appointed by the board, we cut the technology and product cost base by 70% in twelve months, consolidated eleven products into three under a single rebrand, and embedded AI-assisted development with senior engineers orchestrating and reviewing AI-generated code, anchored by a strategic partnership with Google.
The German subsidiary was taken through a controlled insolvency without losing a customer, and the rebuilt product set and commercial model underpinned the US business's return to growth.
A diagnostic imaging joint venture had been mismanaged by its operating partners: a failed technology programme, an oversized cost base, and an investor position at risk. Sent in on the investor's side, we wrote off the inherited programme, replaced the IT leadership, rightsized the function from 85 to 35, and protected the owner's position against misaligned partners - the kind of work that only gets done by someone who answers to the capital.
Technology and operational diligence for investors, including a UK private-equity fund with £75bn under management: architecture, team, delivery capability and whether the AI claims survive contact with the investment thesis - delivered as a board-usable view of risk and the realistic cost of fixing what we find.
Thirty years as an investor and operator in healthcare and regulated industries. Portfolio builder at a £3bn family office, CEO and CTO mandates across Europe, and most recently the board-appointed turnaround of a US surgical intelligence company. Earlier: Microsoft, the BBC, and a patient-safety software business grown 150% to exit.
Based in Abu Dhabi. Works across the Gulf, Europe and the US.
Around the partners sits a bench of senior operators we have worked with for years - architects, engineers, commercial leaders and integrators across the UK, Europe and the Gulf. Assembled for the situation, never for the org chart.
We take a small number of engagements at a time, because hands-on means exactly that.