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Board seats, interim leadership and advisory — one board.
A director building an international portfolio typically holds a statutory seat in one market, takes an interim seat in another, and advises in a third. Splitting those across three products would hide two-thirds of the options, so they sit here together.
Statutory board seat
346A seat on a statutory board — independent, non-executive or supervisory — with the appointment formalities and the personal duties that go with it.
Interim leadership
456An executive engagement for a defined window: a CFO through a refinancing, a COO through an integration, a CEO alongside a founder. The fastest route onto a foreign board, because it puts you inside the market on the record.
Advisory & consulting
179A scoped advisory engagement — board effectiveness, governance design, shareholder engagement, controls readiness. No office of director, no appointment formalities, no statutory liability.
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Adviser — Embedded Cybersecurity Market Prioritisation
Germany·Technology & Digital Platforms
Deep technology and semiconductors organisation in Germany
The adviser will evaluate market priorities for an embedded cybersecurity capability. The assignment compares customer needs, integration burdens and routes to commercial value across potential applications. Its purpose is to focus scarce engineering and commercial resources on opportunities supported by evidence, rather than a long list of sectors in which security is important.
Advisor on Hospitality Seasonality and Operating Flexibility
Italy·Tourism, Hospitality & Entertainment
Luxury hospitality organisation in Italy
The advisor will examine how a hospitality business can manage meaningful fluctuations in demand while preserving its service proposition and financial resilience. The engagement concerns commercial pacing, operating flexibility and the decisions needed before demand changes. It should help leadership avoid responses that protect one period's results by weakening the next.
Distribution Adviser — Returns and Reverse Logistics Economics
Spain·Consumer & Retail
Retail and franchise networks organisation in Spain
The adviser will examine returns across a retail or distribution network, from the customer decision to refund, repair, resale, recovery or disposal. The assignment aims to improve the economics and accountability of the process without creating unreasonable friction for customers or obscuring the true cost of returned stock.
Capital Structure Adviser — Cross-Border Infrastructure Holdings
Mauritius·Logistics & Infrastructure
Infrastructure finance organisation in Mauritius
This assignment is for an infrastructure finance adviser who can explain how borrowing, shareholder support and cash movement interact across a group of investment and operating entities. The objective is to provide an evidence-based capital structure assessment, not to promote complexity or assume that an offshore holding arrangement creates financing capacity by itself.
Senior Adviser for Enterprise Technology Go to Market
Netherlands·Technology & Digital Platforms
B2B software and industrial technology
A technology company has strong products but inconsistent enterprise sales execution across markets. The adviser will sharpen customer selection, improve commercial discipline and help leadership build a repeatable route from technical value propositions to profitable contracts.
Advisor on Retail Format Renewal
Belgium·Consumer & Retail
Retail organisation in Belgium
The advisor will evaluate how an established retail format should evolve to remain commercially relevant. The engagement covers assortment, space allocation, service and operating implications. It must turn customer insight into a proposition that can be tested and delivered, without assuming that visual refurbishment alone will solve a strategic problem.
Adviser — Cyber Resilience and Incident Readiness
Finland·Public-Interest & Regulated Services
Essential services organisation in Finland
Candidates should have practical cyber incident, resilience or crisis-preparedness experience in healthcare, utilities or comparable essential services. They need to facilitate difficult conversations and recognise when technical detail is necessary for an executive decision. Experience converting exercise findings into operational change is essential.
Advisor on Digital Investment Platform Risk Architecture
Singapore·Technology & Digital Platforms
Enterprise technology and AI organisation in Singapore
The advisor will examine how the operating and control design of a digital investment platform should support its proposed services. The engagement concerns the interaction between technology, client outcomes, asset records, outsourced dependencies and management accountability. Any activity-specific legal or regulatory position must be confirmed by qualified advisers for the actual business and jurisdiction.
Advisor on Hotel Pre-Opening Commercial Readiness
Switzerland·Tourism, Hospitality & Entertainment
Luxury hospitality organisation in Switzerland
This engagement will advise a hospitality leadership team on whether its commercial and service arrangements are ready for opening. The focus is the guest-facing operating promise: what has been sold, what can be delivered and how early demand will be managed. The advisor will provide independent readiness judgement without assuming executive control of the opening team.
Adviser — Agricultural Supply-Chain Finance Risk
Singapore·Banking & Financial Services
Supply-chain finance organisation in Singapore
The adviser will assess financing risk across agricultural supply chains where numerous suppliers or borrowers may depend on the same buyer, crop cycle or logistics route. The assignment requires a view of repayment capacity grounded in the actual movement of goods and money.
Adviser — Board Risk Reporting and Early-Warning Indicators
Singapore·Banking & Financial Services
Commodity finance organisation in Singapore
The adviser will redesign risk reporting so that directors can recognise deteriorating exposure and ask timely questions. The brief is to move beyond large data packs toward information that connects changes in risk to ownership, action and escalation.
Lead Adviser for Infrastructure Project Financing
South Africa·Logistics & Infrastructure
Energy, transport or utility development projects
A project sponsor has a technically developed infrastructure proposal but lacks a financing structure acceptable to investors and lenders. The adviser will connect project economics, commercial arrangements and funding requirements into a coherent financing process.
Board Adviser — Turnaround and Liquidity
Finland·Industrial Manufacturing
Industrial manufacturing organisation in Finland
The adviser will help a board distinguish a fundable turnaround from a plan that only works under favourable assumptions. The assignment combines independent analysis with practical recommendations that management can execute.
Board Adviser — Post-Restructuring Value Recovery
Luxembourg·Funds & Asset Management
Operating investments organisation in Luxembourg
Candidates should have experience in post-restructuring investment oversight, operational recovery or value realisation. They must combine valuation judgement with the ability to recognise fragile operating improvements. Familiarity with cross-border holding structures is useful, but the core requirement is evidence of making recovery assumptions testable and decision-relevant.
Board Adviser — IT Investment and Portfolio Oversight
Netherlands·Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organisation in Netherlands
The adviser will assess a technology investment portfolio through service need, risk, capacity and benefits. The central question is not whether individual proposals sound worthwhile, but whether the combined portfolio is affordable, coherent and executable.
Adviser — Credit Policy and Approval Governance
Singapore·Banking & Financial Services
Agricultural finance technology organisation in Singapore
Candidates should have designed credit policy and approval processes in agricultural, supply-chain or technology-enabled finance. They need practical underwriting experience and the ability to evaluate the limitations of automated decisions. A policy-writing background without implementation responsibility is insufficient.
Advisor on Luxury Hospitality Commercial Feasibility
Italy·Tourism, Hospitality & Entertainment
Luxury hospitality organisation in Italy
The advisor will evaluate the commercial and operating feasibility of a proposed luxury hospitality concept. The engagement must connect the intended guest experience with demand, service capacity and sustainable economics. Its purpose is to help leadership decide what should be developed, tested or reconsidered before substantial commitments are made.
Adviser — Product Platform Consolidation
Germany·Technology & Digital Platforms
Software engineering organisation in Germany
The adviser will evaluate opportunities to consolidate overlapping software platforms while preserving the capabilities customers actually use. The work must distinguish desirable standardisation from a migration whose cost and disruption outweigh the benefits. It should give leadership a clear set of choices, including the option to retain differences where the economics support them.
Adviser — Agricultural Commodity Exposure Mapping
Singapore·Agribusiness & Food
Agricultural commodities organisation in Singapore
Deliver an exposure map, a prioritised list of information and control gaps, and a proposed management reporting view. Each recommendation should have an owner, a decision purpose and an indication of implementation effort. This is advisory work with no authority to approve counterparties, alter limits or execute hedging. Management retains those powers. The final output must distinguish verified transaction facts, reasoned assumptions and unresolved questions, allowing the business to act without overstating the completeness of the assessment.
Adviser — Agricultural Customer and Product Profitability
United Arab Emirates·Agribusiness & Food
Agricultural commodities organisation in United Arab Emirates
Candidates should have commodity commercial-finance, trading analytics or related advisory experience with a strong understanding of physical execution. They need the ability to work from imperfect data and explain uncertainty without making the output unusable. Experience influencing commercial decisions through evidence is more valuable than producing elaborate models without follow-through.
Adviser — Technology Procurement and Supplier Governance
Ireland·Public-Interest & Regulated Services
Public-interest services organisation in Ireland
The adviser will strengthen technology procurement and supplier oversight where outsourced capability is important to service delivery. The mandate connects commercial terms to operational accountability, including what happens when performance deteriorates or the relationship ends.
Board Succession Adviser — Chair Transition Readiness
Switzerland·Business Services & Diversified
Board succession and governance organisation in Switzerland
The adviser will support a deliberate chair succession process by helping the board define the leadership it needs, the evidence it should seek and the transition conditions that will allow a successor to work effectively. The mandate does not confer a director appointment or authority to select the next chair.
Capital Allocation Adviser — Industrial Portfolio
United Arab Emirates·Business Services & Diversified
Corporate finance and capital structure organisation in United Arab Emirates
Deliverables include a common investment-paper standard, a prioritised portfolio assessment and a proposed review calendar with clear decision triggers. This is an advisory mandate: management owns business cases and the board or authorised executives retain approval powers. The adviser must disclose any interests in potential vendors, acquisition targets or financing providers and should not receive incentives that favour approving more capital expenditure.
Advisory — Board Effectiveness and Composition Review
Netherlands·Energy & Utilities
Euronext-listed chemicals group
Two supervisory board members approach the twelve-year ceiling and the board's statutory gender balance constrains the sequence of replacements. The chair wants an external effectiveness review before the nomination process begins.
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