Consumer Markets
From shelf-edge to share-of-wallet: leadership that survives the consumer pivot, the activist letter and the multi-brand portfolio re-shape.
Consumer boards face simultaneous pressure from short-cycle category disruption, ESG-conditioned procurement, and channel collapse between owned, marketplace and quick-commerce. We have priced the CEO, CFO, COO and CMO benches of listed FMCG groups, family-owned luxury houses, multi-brand retailers and hospitality groups across five continents.
Chair, CEO, CFO, COO, CMO and CHRO appointments across listed and family-controlled groups since inception.
Including 9 of the global top-30 FMCG groups by revenue.
Family-controlled or LVMH/Kering/Richemont-adjacent portfolio houses placed under heightened succession discretion.
CEO or chair appointments delivered with an active 13D/letter campaign on file.
612 mandates across four regions.
We deliver this sector out of five global hubs — Sydney (HQ), Singapore, London, New York and Dubai — anchored to discrete supervisory regimes. Regional Managing Partners hold the primary client relationship; the global sector lead governs methodology, calibration and quality.
Sydney · Singapore · Tokyo · Shanghai
ASX-listed grocery, Japanese luxury, ASEAN QSR roll-ups.
London · Paris · Milan · Zurich · Dubai
FTSE 100 retailers, Italian/Swiss luxury maisons, GCC hospitality.
New York · São Paulo · Toronto
S&P 500 packaged-goods, Latin American beverages, Canadian QSR.
Dubai · Riyadh · Johannesburg
Sovereign-fund consumer holdings, royal-court hospitality programmes.
What we are calibrated to deliver.
We assemble counter-factual successor slates that withstand 13D-letter scrutiny and Glass Lewis / ISS opposition campaigns.
Discreet protocols for first-generation founder retirement and third-generation family-board re-composition under NDA-by-default.
Operator benches calibrated for unified-commerce, quick-commerce and marketplace P&L re-architecture.
Skills-matrix overlay for Scope 3 supplier accountability, modern slavery attestation and packaging EPR regimes.
The exposure pattern we price into every slate.
Single-channel revenue concentration above 35% materially elevates CEO derailment risk in 24-month forward window.
Family or founder dominance over operating decisions correlates with mispriced successor pools and elevated activist exposure.
Supply-chain transparency failures under UK MSA and AU MSA are now a chair-level liability, not a CPO-level one.
CMO churn above 30-month average without measured brand equity transfer is a forward indicator of CEO removal.
Anonymised by code; defensible by record.
Every engagement opens under NDA-by-default discretion. The mandates below are surfaced with code, region, remit and outcome — the underlying entity, candidate and counterparty detail remains under confidentiality envelope and is only disclosable on engagement under reciprocal NDA.
Defensible slate delivered in 71 days against an active activist short-thesis campaign; market-cap recovery of A$2.4bn in following six months.
Family council ratified slate under heightened discretion; first non-family CEO in 73 years installed without succession-induced revenue dip.
Replaced incumbent CFO 11 days before SEC restatement; preserved investment-grade rating through transition window.
Sovereign-court ratified slate of four cross-jurisdictional operators; first GCC hospitality CEO with combined SEC + DFSA reporting reflex.
The regulatory regimes encoded into every successor score.
Each successor in this sector is scored against the regimes below. The skills-matrix is refreshed continuously by the firm's Regulatory Architect team as supervisory expectations migrate — the most recent calibration was applied to every live slate in the current quarter.
Supply-chain attestation obligations applied as a chair-level skills matrix item.
Scope 3 disclosure and value-chain due-diligence translated into successor-attribute weighting.
Greenwashing-litigation defensibility encoded as a CMO-bench requirement.
Extended producer-responsibility readiness scored on operator bench.
Brief the Consumer Markets practice lead.
Every sector engagement opens under NDA-by-default discretion and is governed by the regional Managing Partner. Initial briefings are conducted in person or under secure-channel video — never over open email.