Our team and advisors

Our team combines expertise across business strategy, finance, marketing, operations, and technology, and has a proven track record of successfully helping clients achieve their commercial goals.

Honesty and integrity are our guiding lights. If we can’t add tangible value, we’ll say so. When the chemistry clicks, our trusted partnership unleashes your full potential – in ways that truly matter.

Mark Rayner

CEO

Established international Venture Capital and Corporate finance principal, invested, and divested a wide range of early to late-stage businesses. Helping fast growth companies to scale and advising from the client side, strategy, clarity, and insights on a range of scenarios. His specialism is corporate strategy, growth, funding and identifying new routes to market and product placement for growth.

Bev Hurley CBE

Director

A serial entrepreneur, angel investor and NXD, Bev has built, grown, and sold four successful businesses. She has supported hundreds of businesses through the investment readiness process and growth journey, and lead teams through rapid scale up. Her specialism is in market strategy, particularly enabling greater competitive advantage and creating compelling value propositions to build brands and sales.

Don MacMillan

Director

Don's background spans international senior management roles with HP/COMPAQ, Motorola, Autodesk, and NTT, bringing a wealth of experience in telecoms, computing, mobile communications, cloud services, security, AI, IoT, data centre and software. He supports high growth businesses, particularly those with disruptive technologies, and those needing to transform through digitalisation.

Advisors

David Cook

David's expertise centres on improving the performance of people and teams, from assessing organisational culture and capability, change management, implementing assessment and development practices, and providing 1:1 leadership coaching to senior teams. He brings global experience in technology, science, healthcare, property, infrastructure, and engineering.

Cornelia Jahnel

Cornelia is a veteran in investor relations, international venture capital, corporate communications and sales, and a life science specialist. She was Head of Investor Relations at JENOPIK AG before establishing the German Investment arm for a UK VC Fund manager, and subsequently has been focused on providing specialist finance and strategy to high growth businesses in Europe.

Bill Holwell

Bill has over 25 years’ experience in corporate finance and financial strategy. He was previously CFO of Brainpower NV, a Deutsche Borse-listed financial analytics business, sold to Bloomberg, and CFO of ETV Capital, one of Europe’s leading technology venture debt funders. He is also a Director of LGF Partners, a specialist debt advisory business who have raised £1bn in capital for clients.

Leanne Case

Leanne is our strategy specialist for companies seeking to address challenges related to social and environmental issues, particularly those in technology, energy, housing, infrastructure, and health. As a management consultant, Leanne has also worked with governments and international businesses on economic, social, and environmental strategies.

Tony Ratcliffe

Tony is a Chartered Accountant with more than 20 years CFO experience building value in high growth companies across multiple sectors, including healthcare, biotechnology, diagnostics, software, and materials science. He has strong strategic, operational, and transactional M&A experience in private and public international markets, buy-and-build execution, and multi €100m+ exits via trade sale and IPO.