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Leadership review
Thomas Fraser
Chief Executive Officer · Canada · Global perspective
Building enduring enterprises. Creating value that lasts.
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- Board appointments
- Advisory roles
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Highlights
The year, and the years before it, at a glance.
₹18,400 Cr
Enterprise revenue led
Across 22 markets
3.1×
Value created
Market capitalisation over six years
41,000
Colleagues
In manufacturing, services and retail
7
Acquisitions integrated
On time and within the thesis
A letter from the chief executive officer
Dear reader,
My task is to give the enterprise a direction it can act on. I make the choices about customers, capital and capabilities explicit, then give business leaders the authority and accountability to deliver. I want difficult information to reach the leadership team while there is still time to respond.
I lead businesses through the moments when ambition must become a different operating reality. My work has spanned enterprise renewal, market entry and the development of leadership teams able to sustain change beyond a single programme.
Thomas Fraser
Chief Executive Officer
Strategic priorities
Where I focus my leadership.
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Business transformation
03
Board stewardship
04
Global growth
Performance
What the priorities delivered.
Priority outcome 01
Enterprise transformation
An established business had outgrown the operating model that made it successful. I brought the leadership team together around a smaller set of enterprise priorities, clarified decision rights and rebuilt the review rhythm around customer and operating evidence. The work connected strategy with ownership at the business-unit level, giving the board a clearer view of execution and the organisation a more consistent direction.
Priority outcome 02
Market expansion
A promising adjacent market required a different route to the customer. Rather than replicate the home-market model, we tested the proposition with a focused partner network, identified the capabilities that needed to be local and staged investment against learning milestones. My contribution was to keep the commercial ambition and the organisation's capacity in the same conversation.
Priority outcome 03
Operating performance
Fragmented initiatives were consuming leadership attention without a shared view of performance. We established a common operating cadence, put interdependent decisions on the same agenda and distinguished structural issues from short-term variance. Business leaders retained ownership of results while enterprise trade-offs became explicit.
Year in review
A career, chapter by chapter.
- 2020 — Present
Chief Executive Officer
Aldermoor Group
Accountable for enterprise direction, executive-team effectiveness and the operating choices that connect growth with durable performance. Working with the board to make strategic priorities, investment decisions and succession visible.
- 2016 — 2020
Business Unit President
Fairhaven Holdings
Led a business unit through a change in market position, aligning commercial priorities, operating capacity and leadership capability. Built experience translating enterprise ambition into decisions close to customers.
- 2011 — 2016
Managing Director, Asia Pacific
Harrow & Vale Industries
Built the regional business from a sales office into a full enterprise with its own manufacturing, brand and leadership bench. Opened four markets and led the first regional acquisition.
- 2006 — 2011
Director, Corporate Strategy
Meridian Consolidated
Shaped the portfolio review that exited two declining categories and funded the move into services. Learned how a board weighs reversible and irreversible decisions.
Governance
Board and committee service.
Current appointments
Northbridge Infrastructure Trust
Independent Director
Strategy · Nomination & Remuneration (Chair)
2022 — Present
The Lakeshore Foundation
Trustee
Investment Committee
2019 — Present
Previous appointments
Calder Logistics
Non-Executive Director
Audit · Risk
2017 — 2021
Committee experience
- Strategy
- Nomination & Remuneration
- Investment Committee
- Audit
- Risk
Stakeholder voices
What those I have served alongside say.
Rare clarity about what the enterprise will and will not do — and the patience to make those choices stick.
The most prepared chief executive I have worked with in a boardroom. Difficult news always arrived early.
Outlook
Perspectives on what comes next.
Strategy is also a decision about what to stop
A leadership team can agree on growth while avoiding the choices growth requires.
Read the essayThe operating rhythm behind enterprise renewal
An enterprise review should connect customer signals, operating performance and investment choices.
Read the essayWhat the board needs before the growth decision
A growth proposal should explain the customer opportunity, the capabilities required and the conditions under which management would change course.
Read the essayRecognition
Awards & honours
- Chief Executive of the Year — IndustrialThe Boardroom Review Awards2024
- Top 50 Transformational LeadersCapital & Governance Quarterly2022
Media
In the news
The Boardroom Review · 2025
“The CEO who stopped three businesses to build one”
Capital & Governance Quarterly · 2024
“Succession as strategy: lessons from an industrial turnaround”
The Leadership Ledger podcast · 2023
“Episode 112 — Choosing what not to do”
An invitation
Looking ahead with Thomas.
Board appointments, advisory mandates and conversations about the decisions ahead.
Open to
- Board appointments
- Advisory roles
- Speaking invitations
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