Commercial Edge.
Board-Level Impact.
Board Adviser & Non-Executive Director: a commercial operator for private, PE-backed and growth boards that want straight-talking challenge on strategy, deals and value creation.
Thirty years building, scaling and turning around consumer and industrial businesses: Regional Managing Director for Henkel across five South-East Asian markets, Country Managing Director in Russia through the currency crisis, EMEA lead on the $1.2bn Loctite integration, and Non-Executive Director of Holt Lloyd through its MBO exit from Morgan Crucible. Founder of TCii Limited.
Board experience
Holt Lloyd (Morgan Crucible subsidiary)
Non-Executive Director, 1992–1994
Cirkularis 8 (sustainable workplace design)
Non-Executive Director, 2018–2020
Aestimo Technologies (hedge fund)
Non-Executive Director, 2018–2019
Xerini (AI and machine learning)
Non-Executive Director, 2022–2023
Circularis (successor to Cirkularis 8)
Board Adviser, 2022–2025
Vistage
Non-Executive Chairman, 2005–2008
Committee experience: Remuneration and Nomination Committees (Holt Lloyd). Currently founder of TCii Limited; Senior Mentor, Adecco/LHH; C-Suite Mentor, Winmark.
Board Advisory & Non‑Executive Director roles
Straight-talking commercial challenge at board level. Working with PE-backed and growth-focused boards as a Non-Executive Director and Board Advisor.
M&A & Market Intelligence
Commercial due diligence, market intelligence, and strategic advisory for acquisitions, disposals, and market entry. PE-relevant, operator-led.
Trusted Counsel
Confidential commercial counsel for Chairs, CEOs, and senior executives at decision points where the stakes are commercial. Not coaching. Not theory.
AI at Board Level
Practical AI literacy applied as a commercial lever, not a technology project. Helping boards treat AI as a value creation opportunity — with the governance architecture to make it credible.
Professional services partnership transition
A Managing Partner faced succession, partnership friction, and personal transition simultaneously. Confidential commercial counsel resolved all three: internal successor confirmed, two-tier partnership approved, NED portfolio career launched cleanly.
Building a board-grade AI operating system
A Board Adviser & NED built a personal AI operating system with human-in-the-loop governance — demonstrating the same principles a board would expect of a portfolio company. Multi-agent stack, golden rule, credibility proof.
Ready for straight-talking commercial challenge at board level?
Open to conversations about NED and Chair roles on private, PE-backed and growth-stage boards in consumer, technology and AI, and professional services. If you are a Board Practice partner, PE Operating Partner or Chair, a 30-minute call is the simplest place to start.