Independent since 1987.
We are a partnership of 2,300 people in 16 offices. We have no outside shareholders, sell no software and take no commissions, so the only thing we are paid to care about is your result.
We help leaders make the few choices that shape their business, and we stay until those choices show up in the results.
Four habits we hire for.
01
Candour
We say what we see, including to the people who hired us.
02
Practical
Rigour that ends in action. A recommendation nobody can run is not finished.
03
One team
One firm, one P&L. Partners are paid on the firm’s results, not their office’s.
04
Discretion
We name clients only with permission, and what we learn stays with them.
Four people in Bedford Row, then a few more.
1987
Margaret Tallis and Daniel Rowe open a four-person office in Bedford Row, London, working for manufacturers and utilities.
1996
Offices open in Rotterdam and Milan, and the operations practice begins with port and logistics clients.
2008
New York opens. Private equity work grows into its own practice.
2016
Singapore and Dubai open; the firm passes 1,000 people.
2024
The AI & Technology practice is formed. Sixteen offices, 2,300 people.
Partners who stay on the work.
Ines Hartley
Managing Partner
Strategy & Corporate Finance
Ines has led the firm since 2021. She advises boards on portfolio choices and large transactions, and still runs two client teams a year.
Theo Marchetti
Senior Partner
Operations
Theo spent ten years running plants before he joined us. He leads our operations work across industrials and logistics.
Saskia Brandt
Partner
AI & Technology
Saskia leads our AI work, from choosing use cases to running models in production, and teaches data leadership at a business school.
Rohan Desai
Partner
M&A and Integration
Rohan has worked on more than forty integrations. He leads our M&A practice and our private equity work in North America.
Sixteen offices, one firm.
Europe
London — head office
Rotterdam
Milan
Berlin
Paris
Madrid
Stockholm
Zurich
North America
New York
Toronto
Chicago
Middle East
Dubai
Riyadh
Asia Pacific
Singapore
Sydney
Tokyo