Graeme Taylor
Senior Advisor with global experience across M&A, integration, large-scale transformation, and performance improvement in complex, multi-site and multi-country environments. His experience spans Europe, Africa, Asia, North and South America, and the United Kingdom across banking, oil and gas, logistics, shipping, retail, manufacturing, heavy industry, and broader commercial sectors.
Graeme’s career has centred on major transactions and their aftermath, working at the point of integration, stabilisation, and performance delivery across industries and geographies. His background combines deep operational leadership with long-standing exposure to M&A, focused on translating deal intent into practical, sustainable outcomes.
- HR due diligence, post-acquisition integration and stabilisation across global, multi-sector operations, including multi-billion transactions across Europe, Africa and Latin America
- leadership of large-scale transformation and performance recovery programmes under commercial and operational pressure, including significant resizing programmes
- delivery of cost discipline, productivity improvement, and operational efficiency across diverse industry settings
- alignment of strategy with operational and workforce reality across geographies and sectors
- assessment of governance, authority, and leadership effectiveness in determining execution outcomes
- challenge and refinement of transformation and integration plans where not grounded in operational feasibility
Graeme brings an execution-led perspective shaped by direct involvement in complex transactions and operating environments, combining operational, corporate, and advisory experience across multinational organisations. He is a native English speaker and speaks fluent Spanish.
Graduate in Economics from the University of York; Accredited Executive Coach
Mihaela Vereș
Senior Advisor with experience across industrial, professional services, and multi-country environments.
Mihaela specialises in workforce transformation, labour engagement, organisational design, and talent strategy across Europe and broader international settings, spanning operational and corporate environments.
Her experience includes M&A pre-transaction, integration, and post-deal stabilisation across Europe, with in-house leadership in execution, workforce transition, and continuity of operations. This includes large-scale workforce restructuring and redundancy programmes, with management of associated legal and commercial risk across multiple European jurisdictions.
Mihaela also brings deep experience in organisation design across large-scale operational businesses, including design and optimisation of commercial and operational functions such as sales, aligning structure, capability, and incentives to performance outcomes. She has worked extensively on organisation and job design, including redesign of roles, responsibilities and workforce structures in response to structural change, automation, and evolving operating models.
- integration and demerger execution across complex European environments
- workforce restructuring and redundancy programmes at scale
- management of legal and commercial risk in multi-country labour environments
- multi-country HR strategy design and deployment
- navigation of labour regimes, consultation requirements, and employee representation
- frameworks
- organisation and job design aligned to operational and economic realities
- workforce planning, including redesign of roles and capabilities in response to structural
- change
- design and optimisation of commercial and operational structures, including sales functions
- translation of enterprise strategy into practical capability and operating model outcomes
Mihaela brings a disciplined, system-level approach to workforce and organisational risk, grounded in practical execution across industrial and professional contexts. She is a native Romanian speaker, fluent in English and French.
Bachelor of Economic Studies (Marketing), Academy of Economic Studies, Galați;
Bachelor of Arts (French and English), “Dunărea de Jos” University, Galați;
Sean Shepherd
Senior Advisor with cross-border experience across Europe, the United Kingdom, Australia and Asia, with additional programme delivery experience in North American businesses.
Sean specialises in M&A execution risk, restructuring, labour relations, and enterprise-scale transformation across complex, multi-country environments, including manufacturing, heavy industry, construction, property development, professional services, mining, and logistics.
His work focuses on how leadership, governance and workforce systems shape cash, cost, productivity, and return on invested capital across pre-transaction, integration and post-transaction environments.
Works with boards, investors and executive leadership on transactions, restructuring and enterprise transformation.
His experience spans pre-deal diligence, post-deal integration, crisis stabilisation, post-transaction workforce and organisational review, and multi-year operating model redesign, grounded in financial and operational outcomes.
- transaction-led restructures, integrations, separations and demergers across multi-site, multi-country operations
- whole-of-enterprise HR and human systems design and redesign linked to performance and cost outcomes
- workforce planning, capability alignment, and structural optimisation to improve productivity, cost discipline and delivery reliability
- assessment of whether leadership, governance and workforce capability can deliver transaction intent, based on how systems operate in practice
- leadership of large-scale cost reduction and productivity improvement programmes
- labour relations strategy, stakeholder management, and dispute containment where required
- design and implementation of governance, authority and accountability frameworks to support execution and decision-making
- management of execution risk where value erosion is driven by leadership behaviour, governance drift, or workforce constraints
Sean operates at the intersection of strategy, labour, governance and execution, focused on protecting value, improving performance, and ensuring that planned outcomes translate into delivery.
Master of Laws, Bachelor of Laws, and Bachelor of Justice from the Queensland University of Technology