This month we spoke to Alysoun Stewart, who has worked with growth companies across her entire career as a corporate finance partner at Grant Thornton, a senior executive in hospitality, manufacturing, property and professional services businesses, and as an independent adviser and NED. In our latest edition of Questions with Catalysis Advisory Ltd, we sat down with Aly to learn a bit more about her background, professional experience and advice for CEOs.
Catalysis Advisory Ltd
Business Consulting and Services
Seymour Street, London 681 followers
Helping companies and investors navigate the growth transition
About us
We are a team of highly-qualified advisers with many years of experience leading or working with ambitious growth companies. We work in partnership with small and mid-market investors, Chairs and management teams, helping to inform decision-making and find solutions to problems arising at the interface of strategy, organisational and people. We aim to create major impact with only limited injections of our time. Challenges in these areas often require teams to "diagnose, crystallise and make it happen". Sometimes external help is needed and over the last decade clients have entrusted us with over 400 assignments. We tend to work more on the ‘how’ than just the ‘what’ and have supported in the following areas: > Management due diligence > Strategy development > Organisation development > Top team development > Senior hire assessment > Management referencing > Private equity support We don’t offer standard, off-the-shelf, advisory ‘products’. We spend time understanding the situation and working out the best approach. Projects are tailored to the specific context and requirements, incorporating appropriate frameworks and tools to support as required.
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- Business Consulting and Services
- Company size
- 1 employee
- Headquarters
- Seymour Street, London
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- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2010
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- Business advisory, Management due diligence, Strategy development, Organisation development, Top team development, Senior hire assessment, Management referencing, and Private equity support
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Catalysis Advisory Ltd has advised Partech on its investment in xFarm Technologies, a tech company focused on the digitisation of the agri-food sector. Thank you to Rémi Said and Arnaud Minvielle for asking us to support the team on their investment. Congratulations to Matteo Vanotti and the rest of the team at xFarm. Peter Fischer Brown MA MPhil LTCL
💥 New Addition to our Impact Fund! 💥 We are thrilled to announce our investment in xFarm Technologies as part of a €36M Series C funding round, led by us alongside Mouro Capital! 💸 🚜 xFarm Technologies is a European tech company focused on the digitalization of the agri-food sector, providing innovative tools to support farmers and stakeholders in managing their businesses. By combining AI technologies with its deep agronomic knowledge, xFarm Technologies supports the work of over 450,000 farms across more than 100 supply chains, spanning 7 million hectares in over 100 countries worldwide. 🌎 This funding will consolidate xFarm Technologies' leadership in Europe and accelerate its expansion across the rest of the continent, as well as in LATAM, India, Turkey, and the US. It will also enhance its services and bolster the implementation of regenerative agriculture through AI-based data analysis. 🌱 This marks the 3rd investment through our Impact Growth Fund, dedicated to scaling European impact-native tech leaders addressing environmental and social challenges. Rémi Said and Arnaud Minvielle, General Partners, commented: “We believe that xFarm Technologies, with its best-in-class technological horizontal solution, its innovative route to market, its deep understanding of farmers’ needs and its global footprint, has all the elements to become the global leader in farm management software and a critical player in the agricultural value chain transition. We are very proud and honored to embark on this journey with xFarm Technologies and its very talented team.” Congratulations to the team at xFarm Technologies! We’re excited to embark on this journey towards a more sustainable and effective agri-food sector. 🤝👨🌾 Head to the comments to find out more 👇 Cc Matteo Vanotti, Matteo Cunial Laetitia Marcadé, Trisha Nangia, Alizé Laurent, Alice Bébéar
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Adding new roles into the top team of a growth company can be tricky, partly because designing those roles involves fuzzy boundaries, titles which can mean different things and a need for some roles to add breadth to a team and others depth. The blog below offers some suggestions on principles to guide those judgement calls and a practical process to sort out roles in an existing team.
The mid-market transition: Executive roles, activity portfolios and ‘role peeling’ — Catalysis Advisory
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Over the course of 2024, I have been finalising a handbook which is designed to be an practical desktop reference guide offering guidance for investors covering: Assessing management teams pre-deal Setting things up for success immediately post-deal Making executive appointments Creating effective boards and management teams Building organisations for scalability and exit How private equity houses can make it easier for investors to handle team and organisational issues We are offering a complimentary advance copy to investors who can give us ten minutes to help update a piece of research I carried out in 2004 (refreshed in 2014) about the ways in which investors handled people issue pre- and post-deal in the mid-market. That involves input into a questionnaire looking at how things have evolved (and improved?) over time. You can access the questionnaire here https://lnkd.in/eMZRTzwW In return for your help with that research (preferably by 15th November), you will receive two things: The handbook (the questionnaire asks for the best address) The results of the research in due course (we have 55 responses from 36 PE houses right now, so we should have plenty of insight)
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Catalysis Advisory Ltd has advised NorthEdge on its investment in PebblePad - The Learning Journey Platform, a EdTech software provider based in Telford. Thank you to Dan Matkin, Simone Masterson and Jon Pickering for asking us to support the team on their investment. Congratulations to Shane Sutherland and the rest of the team at PebblePad. Katrina Zlateva-Bowles
We are pleased to share that we have invested into Telford-headquartered EdTech software provider, PebblePad - The Learning Journey Platform, alongside founder Shane Sutherland. The Learning Journey Platform is used by more than 130 universities worldwide, including 30 of the top-ranked global universities. Our investment will support PebblePad - The Learning Journey Platform scale its presence in both the UK and US, alongside further developing its product to continue delivering innovative, best-in-class solutions for higher education institutions and students around the globe. In addition, the investment will allow the business to continue investing in its people and ensure it remains a great place to work as it continues to scale. The deal was led by Jon Pickering, Chief Investment Officer, alongside Dan Matkin, Director and Simone Masterson, Investment Manager. PebblePad represents NorthEdge’s 17th technology investment. Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/eQ53gD5g
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Catalysis Advisory Ltd has advised Foresight Group on its investment in Wirral Roofcare, a leading roofing repair specialist to the social housing sector. Thank you to Sophie Clough for asking us to support the team on their investment. Congratulations to scott williams and the rest of the team at Wirral. Kirsty Baggs-Morgan🌶Katrina Zlateva-Bowles
🎉New £4.6 million deal announcement🎉 We are delighted to announce a £4.6 million investment into Wirral Roofcare Ltd – a leading roofing repair specialist to the social housing sector🏘️ Wirral Roofcare is a key service provider and has repaired and maintained more than 25,000 properties in the last five years🛠️🧑🔧 Scott Williams, Managing Director at Wirral Roofcare Ltd, comments: “Now is the right time for us to accelerate our growth and I am delighted to be working with Foresight, who introduced Brian to the business. He is someone who has already walked the same growth path in a similar sector, and I am sure will be a great benefit moving forward.” 👀📰Read the full article here: https://ow.ly/c8B850TUrgq #Investing #PrivateEquity #Deal
Foresight invests £4.6 million in Wirral Roofcare Ltd
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Catalysis Advisory Ltd has advised WestBridge on its investment in Causeway Securities, a leading international distributor of structured products based in Belfast. Thank you to James MacLeay, Peter Barkley and Luke Gilbert for asking us to support the team on their investment. Congratulations to Conor O'Donnell and the rest of the team at Causeway. Kirsty Baggs-Morgan🌶
We are pleased to report that WestBridge has made a majority investment in Causeway Securities, a leading international distributor of structured products. The deal marks the third investment from WestBridge III and our first in Northern Ireland. Causeway Securities acts as an intermediary between blue-chip investment banks and its 300+ strong client base of wealth managers, IFAs, insurance companies and credit unions. The company’s global footprint includes the UK, US and other international jurisdictions, and is focused on continuing its rapid international expansion, with a particular focus on the US. The company was established in 2016 by CEO, Conor O'Donnell, who led the transaction alongside Joe McDaniel (chief compliance officer). Both are supported by an exceptional leadership team across the UK and US offices, including Donald Brudie (US CEO) and Andrej Ogorevc (chief investment officer). The WestBridge transaction team comprised James MacLeay and Peter Barkley, who both join the Causeway Securities board as directors, and Luke Gilbert, who becomes a board observer and will coordinate value creation initiatives. Read more about the deal here https://lnkd.in/er8yACUS #privateequity #privateequityfirm #privateequityinvestment #bvca
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Governance can add value to a company or inadvertently confuse management, crowd out other important stakeholders and consume scarce bandwidth. Our latest blog explores the factors that make the difference between these two outcomes.
Unbalanced: Why private equity governance and strategy-making can go wrong — Catalysis Advisory
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There are helpful guidelines which can inform the way that groups – and in fact private equity houses – can think about not only how to add value to subsidiary companies, but even whether value is likely to be added in net terms, after taking into account time and other costs of governance. There are lessons from the corporate past which are probably helpful for investors to reflect on.
The mid-market transition: Is your group structure adding value or just creating complexity? — Catalysis Advisory
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This month we spoke to Caroline Gourlay, who is a chartered psychologist with over 25 years’ working with leaders and leadership teams. She carries out in-depth psychological assessments of leaders for selection, promotion and ahead of investment. She also coaches individual leaders and leadership teams. In our latest edition of 5 Questions with Catalysis, we sat down with Caroline to learn a bit more about her background, professional experience and personal interests. #topteam #meettheteam #privateequity #coaching
5 Questions with Caroline Gourlay
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