About Us

We are a specialised strategic advisory firm focused on financial services and corporate strategy, with a successful legacy of delivering high-impact solutions over two decades.
What We Do
We partner with senior executives to shape corporate strategy, navigate strategic issues and evolution, identify and analyse growth opportunities and conduct due diligence, and drive overall strategic alignment across the organization. We combine academic rigor and evidence-based thinking with a strong expert network of industry professionals with over 20 years of experience in financial services to deliver tailored, long term and high-impact solutions that help businesses stay ahead in a rapidly evolving landscape.
Complexity into Opportunity

We help organizations navigate complexity and turn it into opportunity. Our deep understanding of the industry's complexities—ranging from regulatory pressures to legacy system challenges—enables us to deliver relevant strategic solutions that are tailored to your organisation. Our adaptive approach ensures that strategies are not only sound in theory, but also executable and impactful in practice.

500+
Successful Projects
Partnership for Lasting Growth

We partner with senior executives on a wide spectrum of strategic priorities—shaping long-term corporate strategy and resolving specific strategic issues, conducting market scans and due diligence to expand organically or inorganically, sharpening competitive positioning, identifying high ROI GenAI use cases and shaping broader AI and Data Strategy to support GenAI incorporation at your organisation. Together, we identify growth opportunities, stress-test strategic choices, and build the internal capabilities needed for sustained success.

What We Believe In
We believe that businesses are dynamic systems—not static machines. That’s why we reject one-size-fits-all frameworks and embrace adaptive strategy. We believe in blending deep research with real-world application and industry expertise, aligning people, processes, and structures to enable lasting change. Above all, we believe in delivering measurable and sustained results, not just reports, and we achieve this by being a strategic partner not just a consultant.

Paul Raspin
Management Team
As a niche firm, we build lean, high-quality teams tailored to client needs to maximise ROI for clients. Our model emphasises on expertise, ensuring clients work directly with seasoned professionals—not a broad pool of generic consultants. Our core team specialises in strategy, and for large-scale transformation projects, we partner with leading technology and implementation firms to deliver end-to-end solutions while staying true to our strategic focus.
Barnaby Knight
Director - Strategy Finance
Dr Paul Raspin
Founder and Managing Director
Management Team
As a niche firm, we build lean, high-quality teams tailored to client needs to maximise ROI for clients. Our model emphasises on expertise, ensuring clients work directly with seasoned professionals—not a broad pool of generic consultants. Our core team specialises in strategy, and for large-scale transformation projects, we partner with leading technology and implementation firms to deliver end-to-end solutions while staying true to our strategic focus.
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Expert Advisors
Our network of expert advisors brings deep, hands-on and subject matter expertise through industry experiences in leading global banks and financial institutions to academic expertise and research. They have led global and regional business segments, products, service lines, and enablement functions. Their industry insights and strategic expertise enable us to solve complex challenges for our clients with precision and perspective.
Examples of experts in our network include:
Fixed Income and Investment Banking Director, with prior experience as Head of Financial Institutions Syndicate at a leading global Swiss Bank
Head of Distribution at a major UK fund manager, previously Managing Director and Head of UK Asset Management at a top-tier universal bank
Director of the Centre for Sustainable Finance at a leading UK university, formerly Head of UK Debt Capital Markets at a global bank
Global Head of Brokerage at a major US-headquartered bank covering Equities, Fixed Income and Derivatives.
Senior IT Architect and Generative AI Leader at a multinational enterprise IT solutions provider
Global Head and Managing Director of Financing Solutions, with prior experience as Director in various Trading roles at different leading global European banks
Head of Corporates and Emerging Syndicate, with prior experience as Head of Financial Institutions Syndicate at a leading Swiss bank
Head of Distribution at a major UK fund manager, previously Managing Director and Head of UK Asset Management at a top-tier universal bank
Director of the Centre for Sustainable Finance at a leading UK university, formerly Head of UK Debt Capital Markets at a global bank
Global Head of Brokerage at a major US-headquartered bank
Senior IT Architect and Generative AI Leader at a multinational enterprise IT solutions provider
Strategy Consultants
We prioritise quality over quantity, and work exclusively with top-pedigree consultants who bring experience from leading global consulting firms and academic backgrounds from world-class universities. With strong analytical skills, market exposure, and a track record of working closely with senior executives, they combine their desire for impact, strategic thinking with practical execution to deliver high quality outcomes.
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