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Companies built, turned around and backed. The filter below sorts by the kind of involvement.
A small number of engagements each year, chosen for whether there is a real operating problem underneath the request.
Non-executive and chair roles where the work is genuinely operational rather than ceremonial, with a bias towards companies between Series B and profitability.
Short, intensive engagements with founding teams facing a specific structural problem: a broken cadence, a stalled hiring plan, a market that has shifted underneath them.
Seed and Series A cheques into founders building unglamorous infrastructure, usually in logistics, health systems and industrial software.
Interim executive roles in businesses that are structurally sound and operationally lost, typically eighteen months from stabilisation to handover.
Conference keynotes and closed-door sessions on scaling, capital strategy and the parts of executive work that are rarely discussed honestly.
Essays, long-form case studies and an occasional newsletter on operating discipline, published here and syndicated selectively.
Founders, chairs and partners I have worked alongside.
Adrian arrived into a business that had convinced itself its problems were external. Within a quarter the conversation had changed entirely, and within a year so had the numbers.
The most useful board member I have worked with, largely because he asks the question everyone else has quietly decided not to ask.
He is unusually good at telling founders something they do not want to hear in a way that leaves them able to act on it. That is rarer than it sounds.
We brought Adrian in for eight weeks and are still using the operating cadence he set up three years later. Best money we have spent.
Clear-eyed about capital in a way that is genuinely uncommon among operators. He saved us from a term sheet we were about to sign out of exhaustion.
No theatre, no frameworks for the sake of it. He looks at what is actually happening and then says so plainly.
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