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.
Over three decades building, scaling and turning around consumer and industrial businesses: Managing Director, South East Asia for Henkel across four markets, Director and Country Manager for adhesives in Russia through the currency crisis, South East Asia lead following Henkel’s $1.2bn acquisition of Loctite, and Non-Executive Director of Holt Lloyd as it prepared for its investor-backed MBO from Morgan Crucible. Founder of TCii Limited.
Board experience
Independent Board Adviser
Chairs, owner-CEOs and PE investors, 2020 to present
Xerini (AI and data consultancy)
Board Adviser, 2022 to 2023
Aestimo Technologies (quantitative investment manager)
Board Adviser, 2018 to 2019
Hine Legal (London law firm)
Board Adviser, 2016 to 2018
Holt Lloyd (Morgan Crucible subsidiary)
Non-Executive Director, 1993 to 1994
Committee experience: Remuneration and Nomination Committees (Holt Lloyd). Currently Independent Board Adviser; mentor at Lee Hecht Harrison (formerly Penna) and 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 Adviser.
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, backed by 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 goods, industrial and technology businesses. If you are a Board Practice partner, PE Operating Partner or Chair, a 30-minute call is the simplest place to start.