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Arco

Guy Bruce
Chief Executive Office

"Ash arrived at very short notice, assisting to set up and lead through its first phase of development, for our strategic review and associated value creation plan. Later leading the finance work-stream, Ash was a team player and great guy. I'd recommend him for similar roles"

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Sheffield Forgemasters

Stephen Hammell
Chief Financial Officer

“Ashif acted as Programme FD on a large and complex capital replacement programme with a total investment value of £400m. He was responsible for managing long range forecasts and stakeholder communication as well as day-to-day control activities. Ashif was a positive and energetic member of the team who I would be pleased to work with again.”

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Confidential

Ian Finlay
Chairman at Confidential

“Ashif was brought in to assist on a potential private equity backed investment that I worked on. Initially tasked with getting the business through the FDD process, Ashif's role very quickly expanded, and he became a pivotal part of the deal team. Unfortunately, the transaction never completed but I would have no hesitation in using Ashif again in either an interim or a permanent capacity.”

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Jungle Creations

James Evans
COO & CFO

“I had the pleasure of engaging Ashif to improve the board reporting at Jungle Creations. It was immediately clear from our initial discussions that he 'got it'. Ash understands that working smarter rather than harder is the key for every business and he also understands how to cut through the noise. That is exactly what he delivered for Jungle's board reporting which has helped us as a board engage in more meaningful conversations.

I would absolutely recommend Ashif to anyone looking to implement board reporting changes and know that he would also be able to add significant value anywhere within the Finance function.”
 

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Exponent Private Equity

James Gunton
Partner

“Ashif joined Pattonair a few weeks prior to completion of the transaction to support the transition of the finance function to private equity ownership.  His initial focus was to create a new reporting pack for the Group but subsequently he took on a wider role within the finance team which included working on the ABL debt facility and the company’s COGNOS system.  

Ashif integrated himself well within the wider finance team and very quickly gained a strong understanding of the business.  The CFO pack which he created was a significant improvement on the Board reporting which was in place when he started. This is the second assignment on which I have worked with Ashif, the first time when I was working with 3i. I would recommend him highly to prospective employers and would not hesitate to work with him again.” 
 

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Initial Washrooms Solutions

Mark O’Connor
Finance Director

“I worked with Ashif for a couple of years when I was FD of the Initial Washrooms Solutions business in the UK. The business was undergoing a significant amount of change, and as Head of Financial Planning and Control, Ashif was an indispensable support during a very challenging period.  He is an excellent manipulator of data, able to think creatively and work independently to produce work of excellent quality.  He is very reliable and conscientious.  I would not hesitate in offering Ashif another contract at a future point in time.”

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Livingbridge Private Equity

Vernan Richards
Investor

“Ash did a great job at our portfolio company Jungle Creations. 

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We asked him to help streamline the financial reporting process at board level. He quickly built rapport with the team and delivered the programme of work on time and in budget. As a result we were left with a much more efficient and insightful reporting pack that we will form the centre of board discussions moving forwards.

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I won't hesitate to work with him again.”
 

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Yash Golfear

Akash Soni
Managing Director

“Projects have included e-business services, change management and strategy advice and implementation.

In the above projects Mr Manjothi has performed for us and advised us on we have found him very professional in his approach and the handling of said projects. The projects were implemented and completed exactly to our specifications and Mr Manjothi led his team handsomely in this regard, from his project management to his web designers and database programmers. We find him to be an exceptional business manager and will have no hesitation in conducting business with he and his company in the near future when such a need arises."
 

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Pattonair

Jonathan Moritz
Operations Financial Director

“Ashif joined Pattonair to assist in the Management and Private Equity buy out from Umeco Plc.  During his time with the group Ashif played an integral role in the transformation of the reporting processes and formats required as a result of the ownership change.  He demonstrated excellent financial modelling and data management skills, and allied these to a strong understanding of systems infrastructures to develop a very effective and flexible set of management information for local Business Units, Group and External reporting. 
   
He was consistently professional, and also very enjoyable to work with.  I would have no hesitation in recommending him to future employers.“

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Sumo Group plc

Steven Webb
General Counsel and Company Secretary 

“I worked closely with Ashif throughout his time at Sumo Group plc. He rapidly got to grips with the dynamics of the business and with the culture of the organisation, which made him very effective very quickly. As well as leading on a number of projects that will have a huge impact, he was always willing and able to add value in many other areas. He combines a determination to get things done with an engaging personality that makes him a pleasure to work with.”

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Confidential

Paul Hawkes
Consultant

“Ashif is dedicated, enthusiastic, forward thinking and creates a "can do" attitude around him and with those with whom he is working. In my experience of working with Ashif, he was prepared to undertake the hard yards and roll his sleeves up, recognising the need to understand information from the ground up. With that in mind, he worked diligently to gain greater clarity through improving the quality of the source information and then pulling this into a format with the eventual audience in mind. Throughout, Ashif made sure that any issues were highlighted along with his thoughts on potential solutions. He is a great asset for those who get the chance to benefit from his input.”

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Ultralase

Tony Veverka
Chief Executive Officer

“Ashif Manjothi worked with Ultralase for around 6 months in 2009, and was tasked with improving the financial reporting of the company including Cashflow forecasting, FTE and Payroll reports and our internal Management Reports as well as External Board Packs. These were completed with rigorous attention to detail, dedication and were always delivered in a timely fashion.  Ashif’s input was first class and really provided what was required at an important time.”

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Manor High School

Liam Powell
Headteacher

“As the Headteacher of Manor High School, I am delighted to recommend and endorse Ashif on the basis of several years of successful leadership, collaboration and school improvement. Through Ashif's support, guidance and leadership, the school was able to transform from a 10-14 age group to an 11-16 one which became top in County and City for progress, in the top 1% of schools for progress and with an average of almost a grade per pupil in all subjects. Ashif led the governing body through the school's full Ofsted inspection and did all he could to ensure a successful outcome.

Among Ashif's greatest contributions were thoroughness, scrutiny, diligence, engagement, commitment and determination. With such huge and significant change in such a short period of time, such attributes were vital.

Ashif played a key role first, in the recruitment of governors and later, trustees and members of the multi-academies trust he helped to set up. He recruited based upon a skills matrix he devised. He chaired the governing board and also, the chairs' trust board. Ashif was instrumental to the creation of the Oak Multi-Academies Trust. On a personal level, Ashif and I worked closely and collaboratively in the interests of every child and stakeholder in the Manor High community. This was a pleasure and a journey of many triumphs and successes. I wish Ashif, his future collaborative partners and projects, the very best and I look forward, with great interest, to reading and hearing all about them.”
 

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Orange

Jeremy Williams
Head of Orange Group Planning & Analysis

“Given the role of the team, the outputs are always high profile and always with tight deadlines, for example the monthly flash results, the Executive team briefing pack and presentations for the CFO. Ashif played a significant role in delivering timely, reliable and accurate outputs in all circumstances, using a combination of the accounting and consolidation system, Excel and PowerPoint to deliver high quality outputs and control the integrity of the reported financials.

During his time with Orange, Ashif developed and advanced knowledge of the Orange accounting and consolidation system which he used with his Excel experience to develop new reports to efficiently and accurately report and analyse the financial results.

On an ongoing basis throughout his employment, Ashif worked to improve the monthly reporting process within Planning & Analysis by automating the basic extraction and analysis of financials and save time for value added work by the analysts. A similar approach was used for the budgeting and forecasting processes to give a standard approach and look and feel for the outputs. 

On a personal level, Ashif has a very professional approach, is easy to work with and demonstrated a high level of commitment throughout the time he was at Orange. As such I have no hesitation in recommending Ashif to prospective employers.”
 

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Sumo Group plc

Andrew Stewart
Group Director of Finance

“What sets Ashif apart as a consultant is his willingness to integrate himself into the heart of the organisation by building deep relationships across the business. Ashif truly cares, not just about the success of the project he’s working on, but about the whole organisation, its people and building for long term success. He always goes that extra mile, is willing to step in to help out beyond his remit and is an absolute pleasure to work with.

In terms of specifics, Ashif joined us at Sumo during a period of significant transition and played a pivotal role in a number of transformational projects and was a great help during our IPO process. The most substantial changes have come through the implementation of Planning Analytics (TM1) and Cognos Controller by IBM and redesigning our financial board pack. Ashif also helped us with a number of bolt-on interfacing systems, such as a new HR and CRM system, PAW (online dashboards) and Virtual Board Room, to provide true end to end solutions for our business needs.

But Ashif’s contribution goes much further than the specific tools he’s helped us with and he will truly be missed here at Sumo.”
 

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Sheffield Forgemasters

Sion Hughes
Head of ReCap Programme Commercial and Supply Chain

“Ashif is a very able and professional finance director who can operate well in high pressure environments at a very senior level.  His domain knowledge and approach is first rate and he’s a great guy to work alongside.”

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Sumo Group plc

David Wilton
Chief Financial Officer

“Ashif did a great job improving our reporting systems and processes in the run up to our IPO and afterwards. Consistently excellent work over a long period. Ashif is a very committed and capable operator and I would wholeheartedly recommend him.”

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Oasis Healthcare

Paula Bradshaw
Director of Finance & IT

“Ashif consulted with Oasis for a couple of months to build a new bank covenant model to incorporate balance sheet and cashflow forecasting. Ashif quickly ensured that he had a strong understanding of our business and requirements to ensure the model was fit for purpose. He approaches all his work professionally and with excellent integrity, and worked extremely well with all levels of team members.”

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Lawyers on Demand

Paul Rochester
Head of FP&A

"Tejas listened to our needs, advised the best solutions, and delivered a solution which will provide a platform to move away from manual spreadsheets. He has been vocal and passionate about delivering a high-quality output throughout the 6 months, and I believe it has paid off. We’re now able to refer to and interrogate a Power BI report throughout and after month end to see the latest position and then use that same data to automatically generate an Excel board pack. This removes lots of manual steps and processes which will save lots of time that can be better used to understand the business even more and write even better commentary. 
   
   It’s been a pleasure to work with him and I look forward to working with him again in the future."

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Vodafone

Dana Gohill
Interim Senior Finance Transformation Manager

“I worked with Tejas at Vodafone in the Technology FP&A department. Tejas is a naturally energetic and strives to do best with a positive attitude.    I found Tejas to be very meticulous and always willing to go that extra mile. He is very proficient with overall excel and modelling for planning using scenarios. He would review a process and propose changes to make it more efficient, enabling more time to understand and analyse numbers.   Tejas also has very good stakeholder management skills and is quick at building trust and relationships, providing credible results.   I would be glad to recommend him. It was a pleasure to work with Tejas both at professional and personal level. He is a genuine person with great technical abilities working collaboratively at various levels in the organisation.”

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GE Healthcare

Kunal Sharma
VP, CFO Core Imaging, EMEA

“Tejas is one of the most passionate people I have ever worked with. He is always looking at ways to challenge the status quo in order to drive the best business outcomes. 

  

Tejas is very technical and detailed oriented and at the same time able to translate that into business results. He is dedicated and hard working and a very approachable leader, a pleasure to work with! 

    

During his role as my FP&A leader, Tejas worked on various cross-functional transformation and org redesign initiatives which helped us deliver on our targets and the approach was then replicated across the GE Healthcare business.”

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GE Healthcare

Kirsty Littlemore
Head of Finance Transformation

"Tejas joined us at a challenging time where we were transitioning from an old finance structure into a new activity specific structure. I gave him a very simple brief and overview of the business and what was required and he just got stuck in. 
   

Went out and met the people and learnt the business wholly off his own back with little help. He just completely ‘owned’ sorting the solution I had outlined for him. He was such a breath of fresh air and relief.. to have someone totally autonomous who just passionately went and got on with the job at hand! 
 

 His Excel and modelling skills are second to none.. building brand new complex budgeting models in a matter of weeks whilst simultaneously managing the entire planning process and liaising with various stakeholders.. both peers and senior business managers!
 

 I cannot recommend him highly enough.. working with Tej was a pleasure both professionally and personally.. he’s technically brilliant but alongside this he’s a genuinely nice person who wants to work collaboratively with others!"

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Unilever

Amandip Panesar
Head of Finance Europe

“Tejas joined my team as a senior transformation lead, he quickly brought himself up to speed on ways of working and complex processes. 
   
   He was able to identify and implement process improvement, future tooling solution whilst understanding business requirements and was driven to make improvements. Importantly he took on suggestions, feedback positively and added key insights. 

    

I know if there is something that needs to be improved Tejas is the right person.”

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Pepsico

Austin Kozman
Senior Director R&D

"Imran is a seasoned R&D leader with deep expertise across multiple categories. He is an expert in innovation strategy tied to consumer insights and technology trends directed by VC activity and emerging university research. Imran is skilled at complex deal negotiation and contract facilitation to enable critical joint development programs that are beneficial and profitable for all the partners involved. Leveraging external expertise coupled with strong internal R&D capability, Imran expertly managed complex research programs to drive synergistic advances and technical breakthroughs to enable novel product development. Imran has had past success of obtaining external funding to supplement R&D work to accelerate the agenda and mitigate investment risk."

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Eye to Eye Puzzles

Owen Arnot
Publishing Director

“At Eye to Eye Puzzles we needed an elegant board pack solution to enable us to communicate our performance and plans to our partners.  Ashif was recommended to us by a mutual business colleague as he had the necessary experienced in this area.
It has been a pleasure to work with Ashif on our new board pack. The delivery of a very clever and user friendly pack was on time and on budget. I am also pleased to say that our partners were very impressed with the look and feel of the pack.
I have no hesitation in recommending Ashif for his professionalism, creativity and efficiency.”

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Various

Iain Chisholm
Chief Financial Officer

“I initially recruited Ashif when I was Interim Finance Director of Rentokil Initial’s UK Washroom Business. Ashif did an excellent job in improving the quality of financial reporting and excelled at putting together business cases for major capital investments. I subsequently used Ashif’s skills again when I was Interim CFO at NCP Services Limited and in my current role to develop a high quality cash and financial reporting system. As the fact that I have contracted Ashif three times (AM Insert: now 5 times) testifies, I have no hesitation in recommending Ashif for a financial planning and analysis role as his work is of the highest quality.”

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Savvy Foods

Jonathan Drury
Chief Executive Officer

“Since June (2016), Ashif has been acting as Chairman as well as Interim Chief Financial Officer and we have seen an immediate positive impact on the business. Ashif has supported us by analyzing, streamlining and improving our processes and systems, including business planning, bookkeeping, financial statements and detailed cash flow projections. Together we have identified numerous cost saving areas, and are currently in the process of setting targets for the new accounting year. We are pleased to have the opportunity to work with a professional strategist with this level of experience, and anticipate an exciting new phase of growth in the business as a result of working together.”

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Bank of Ireland & Post Office Joint Venture

Paddy Fermor
Transformation Director

“I recruited Paul into Post Office to turnaround a challenging, high-profile strategic programme. His careful and effective management of key supplier relationships, as well as of the project team, led to a step-change in delivery performance which was noted by the CEO. This in turn led to a significant improvement in financial performance at those branches which took part in the programme. Together with the feel-good factor which was created, this led to requests to participate from other parts of the business.

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I highly recommend Paul, and would be pleased to work with him again.”

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Aion Digital

Steve Eliopoulos
Chief Commercial Officer

“I worked with Paul at Aion Digital where he was the Director responsible for leading the Project Manager team, Governance and the PMO. He made a big difference towards our achieving smoother deliveries compared to situation we faced before he joined the company. His significant experience in delivering Banking projects clearly made things easier for all involved. His contribution was measured through significantly reduced remedial work, which translated to a substantial reduction in costs and timelines. Our clients were very happy about these cost, time and quality improvements while the delivery teams were happy to work in a well organized environment. Needless to say that all this pleased me too. 

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​I highly recommend Paul, he will be a great asset for any business that collaborates with him and I hope that he and I can work together again in future.”

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Omnio

Mehar Zulfikar
Head of PMO

“I had the great pleasure of working directly with Paul, where he was Change Management Director. He recruited me to work with him on setting up the PMO, designing and implementing project governance and methodology across all business units. He managed the team of programme, project and service managers. Paul has great people management skills and a positive can-do approach. I observed him adapting his management approach to deal effectively with the differing needs of others in the team. 

 What Paul brings to the table is a unique combination of strategic/critical thinking, excellent communication/articulation and strong analytical ability. He has an ability to focus on business outcomes as well as stated programme objectives and operates confidently at the board level. 

He had a broad understanding of Fintech processes and products, able to manage and influence outcomes to create solutions for his demanding stakeholders.  It was a pleasure working with him and I recommend his capabilities unreservedly. I would welcome the opportunity to work with Paul again!”
 

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REISS

Jennie Nelson-Cofie
Head of People & Culture

"We approached Leyla having heard her speak before. She delivered a brilliant one hour ‘lunch and learn’ webinar for our firm on how to manage your own mental health wellbeing and support your colleagues. The session gave a really helpful overview of mental health wellbeing. The talk was full of really practical, realistic tips on how to look after yourself and how to approach those slightly tricky conversations, either to reach out to someone you are worried about or to open up about how you are. The session hit the mark for all of our attendees, who were a large group at all career levels. It provoked lots of interesting questions at the end plus follow on discussion in the office afterwards – which is just what we had hoped for. Leyla was a pleasure to work with – flexible, reliable and commercial in her approach. She really understood our firm’s culture and how to tailor the messaging accordingly. We got so much out of just one hour of her expertise."

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P&B Metal Components

Ryan Owens
Operations Manager

“I was part of a Management Development Programme that Shahida delivered. This also involved 1-1 coaching sessions. I can honestly say that both were very good. I never left a single session disappointed.   

One thing I found very helpful was at the start of each session Shahida would ask about what was happening within the business, which she would then use to tailor the training session to make it relevant to what we were dealing with on a daily basis. 
I love reading and one of the most inspirational books I have ever read came from a session with Shahida; The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. This book is fantastic. I will have this book with me and will keep referring to it forever, It has helped me so much. Not only in my working life but in my personal life too. 
The coaching worked for me, it helped be to lead and understand the people I was managing. It helped me to understand that not everyone has the same needs and different thing inspire and motivate different people. I was taught how to approach people depending on their personal style. 
Great sessions with inspirational inputs to help become a better manager.”

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Frogglez

Chris Cook
Double Olympic Swimmer & 
Entrepreneur

Alistair's advice to us with regards to our business direction and the considerations as a start-up business has been outstanding from the outset. Alistair listened carefully to what we wanted out of our business transactions and then formulated a detailed plan with clear phases for the business development. 

 

We have had several meetings with Alistair and on every occasion he left us feeling inspired and excited about the possibilities of where we could take our products and services. As a business we are now much better positioned to move forward, and we are very excited about working with Alistair in the future. 

 

Alistair's connections in business and work ethic is an example of how passionate he is to drive businesses in the right direction. Thank you for all you've done thus far and thank you for inspiring our future plans!

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Pattonair

Mark Whatling
Group Financial Controller

“Ashif joined Pattonair in preparation for the acquisition by Exponent and management, and worked with me through the pre-acquisition stage. He was pivotal in the implementation and set up of the Group reporting and head office functions of the newly established Groups including management reporting to the Board, and onerous complex covenant reporting to the UK banking Group. Ashif’s financial modelling, data manipulation skills and Microsoft skills were excellent, such that he became the fountain of knowledge within the business.
Ashif quickly learned the key characteristics of COGNOS controller, and developed numerous reports and templates which will be used within the business for many years going forward at both a business unit and group level.

Ashif remained with the company for 20 months and was a pleasure to work with. Throughout his assignment, he was always hard working, committed and flexible, often sought out from other parts of the business including the CEO, CFO, HR and Commercial Finance so that he could bring his expertise in project management, business change and reporting to add value to the organisation.
I certainly would not hesitate in recommending Ashif to prospective employers and hope that we work together on another project in the future.”

 

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MPSGI

Tony Scorey
Data Warehouse Team Leader

“MPSGI is the parent company of a number of recruitment companies worldwide including Badenoch & Clark and Modis International in the UK. Ashif was recruited to work in the IT department, to assist in the roll-out of the data warehousing solution which brings together payroll, accounting and CRM databases into one Data warehouse which is then rolled out to the business via Business Objects Web Intelligence, an internet web-based application. Ashif was specifically in charge of the management of the UAT (user acceptance testing) process of the Client Reporting phase of the project.

Ashif is a very impressive individual, and was productive from the very start of the contract. He performed diligently and with enthusiasm, and contributed significantly to the success of the Client Reporting phase.

Ashif also showed significant expertise in forming and maintaining relationships with the various technical and business personalities associated with the project.”
 

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Hispek

Naeem Sattar
Chief Executive Officer 

“Ashif joined us initially on an Interim basis for 6 months as Chief Operating Officer to oversee operational efficiencies within our business and business process improvements with a focus on cost management and margin improvement. He completed these with rigor and attention to detail and has created processes that we hope to use for several years to come. He was also responsible for creating a 3 Year Plan for the business and continues to monitor its progress as a non-executive director and a valuable member of our senior management team. I am sure he will be an asset to any business and would not hesitate in recommending him for similar roles.”

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SHS Group

Chris Lillie
Group HR Director

"I had the opportunity to work with Alistair when he worked with our senior leadership team in one of the SHS divisions in which he supported the business on a strategic change project. 

Very quickly Alistair developed a comprehensive plan and working with the business developed concrete actions to implement these. 

Alistair works in a structured manner, implementing plans with pace. As a result of his work, we have embedded new ways of working across the organisation. I found Alistair to be professional, impactful and knowledgeable in the area of business transformation."

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Think Again Growth

Sandy Groves
Founding Partner

"Alistair was my client and primary exec stakeholder as the Interim MD at NRS Healthcare. He was terrific to work with and helped drive through our delivery of a major, multi-faceted strategic project with pace and energy. He was open and challenging, with plenty of perceptive questions! He immediately understood the insights and possible commercial impact our work could deliver and was highly effective at bringing other exec and team members on the journey (including the new MD). 

    Alistair is the consummate professional, super sharp and commercially astute. He’s also just a genuinely nice guy and I hope to work with him again in the future."
 

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Graphite Capital

Nick Eichorn
Director - Value Creation

"Alistair was brought into our Portfolio company, NRS Healthcare, as Interim MD of the consumer/product business. Alistair arrived at the business at a time of significant change, not only in the Consumer Division, but in the wider NRS business.

I personally found Alistair's ability to understand a complex business unit and its key drivers quickly, develop commercial change projects on the back of this and lead them, as key qualities.

His leadership style ensured that colleagues understood the direction the business was going in and motivated them to be a part of this change and challenge the norm. This enabled him to drive significant improvement in the business and embed a mindset that has helped the new, full time MD to continue this work."

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Utopia Bathrooms

Carl Darby
IT Director

"In a relatively short period of time, Alistair helped Utopia achieve huge forward steps. From our first meeting together, it was apparent how quickly he could identify business issues, formulate opportunities for improvement and push them through - at a serious pace.

 

  It was very reassuring for Alistair to pick up the commercials and finances so quickly in a complicated business. A master of cutting through the fog and 'getting stuff done', his leadership style, people direction skills and project execution techniques ensured an efficient turnaround of sophisticated and problematic assignments. The business, and people within are now invigorated, revved-up and totally aligned with the strategy."

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THE SIMMANCE PARTNERSHIP 

Steve Simmance
Managing Director

"There are few professionals like Alistair who really do 'see the wood from the trees' , whose clear line of sight efficiently enables him to set out a plan and achieve results with uncompromising standards of performance, Alistair knows how! 
   

In the years of knowing Alistair in various different environments, he can be singled out as a man who demystifies complex business situations and leads with strong positive influence in actually achieving goals rather than imagining them. 

 

Alistair is a highly efficient operator, precise with an innate feel for what needs doing and how to mobilise people to do their best. He is an inspiring leader, forthright, straight-talking and who's passion to deliver results on time is infectious and exhilarating for those around him." 
 

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blu E-Cigs UK

Bruce Casely
Chief Investment Officer

"Alistair's approach from Day 1 was one of gaining a comprehensive understanding of the business dynamics while assessing what quick wins could be achieved. The pace of the implementation of his (successful) commercial strategy was undertaken using insight, empirical evidence, empathy to colleagues and complete determination. It wasn't an easy task given the internal and external challenges that the business was facing, but by working with the other functional teams in the business and influencing their behaviours, the right outcome was achieved. 
 

The results spoke for themselves: within 3 months of joining sales were growing, the team was motivated, the dead wood cut out and a new trajectory was set. 

 

Alistair can clearly deliver change and transform a business. He projects a clear vision for the team to follow. He leads from the front and was a significant asset to the business."

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Izico Food Group

Karen Green
Major Account Director

"Alistair is a perfect turnaround specialist. He has razor like focus on understanding the needs of the business and establishing how to turn that into profitable sales. 

 

He is great at reviewing the people skill set in a business and not afraid to make the necessary changes to create the strong team needed to reach longer term goals and strategies. Alistair achieved awesome results at Izico, I enjoyed working with him and would be very happy to do so again."

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KEEN

Franzisca Gartenmann
Co-Founder @ KEEN Wellbeing

I've encountered numerous consultants, but few truly deliver on their promises like Imran does. He expertly supported us through a pivotal shift in our sales strategy and was instrumental in enhancing our key account approach. Beyond his strategic insights, Imran also made valuable introductions and leveraged his extensive network to the advantage of both sides. He is someone you truly want on your team!

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London School of Economics

Jess Bond
Head of Widening Participation

“Leyla delivered a brilliant session on cultural awareness and inclusive communication for our Widening Participation team at LSE. She was well organised and responsive throughout the planning, really understood the brief and delivered an engaging, interactive and thought-provoking session! Would highly recommend!.”

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