Strategic advisory
Experienced counsel for founders, CEOs and investors.
Vikas works with leaders navigating growth, transactions and significant change. His advice draws on more than 25 years building and leading businesses, multiple exits and a current portfolio of investment, board and advisory roles. A direct working relationship, focused on the decisions that shape the business and the people leading it.
Founder & CEO counsel
An experienced sounding board for strategy, leadership, capital and board relationships. Candid discussion of the business decisions, and the personal pressures, that come with leading an organisation.
Transactions & exit readiness
Drawing on more than 25 M&A transactions across his career, Vikas helps owners and leadership teams prepare for investment, acquisitions or a sale: testing the strategic rationale, strengthening the business and working alongside their professional advisers through key decisions.
Growth & international expansion
Commercial strategy, leadership and operating structures that support growth. Drawing on experience of building international operations and navigating the complexity that comes with scale.
Boards & governance
Helping businesses develop effective boards, clearer accountability and proportionate risk and assurance arrangements as their ownership, scale and ambitions evolve.
Confidential. Candid. Built on having done it.
Experience
Experience through the full business lifecycle.
Vikas's experience spans building and scaling companies, acquisitions, restructuring and exits. Alongside exits from his own businesses, his investment portfolio has produced multiple eight-figure exits. He has worked with founder-led, venture-backed and private-equity-backed businesses on growth, governance and transactions.
Business-building · Investment · International growth · Exit experience
Looking for one-to-one support?
Vikas also coaches a small number of founders, chief executives and next-generation leaders.
Conversations he draws on, through Thought Economics
Sir Richard Branson · Daniel Kahneman · Sir James Dyson · Steve Ballmer · Mark Cuban · Arianna Huffingtonand 600 more.
Current advisory portfolio
Where he is involved today.
Chair, partner and board advisory roles alongside the board portfolio, across AI, energy, data and research commercialisation.
Chairman
Rdentify
A customer experience and AI group, combining website assistants, multilingual support operations and conversation analytics so businesses answer questions faster, identify friction earlier and convert more of the people they already reach.
rdentify.com
Partner
Endgame
A founder-led corporate finance advisory practice with consulting arms specialising in technology transformation and innovation.
endgame.work
Board Advisor
Enspec Power
Power quality engineering for large energy users: renewables, utilities, oil and gas, manufacturing and more.
enspecpower.com
Board Advisor
Smart-IR
Leveraging the superior optoelectronic properties of nanomaterials to unlock the next generation of spacecraft thermal control, multispectral stealth capabilities and smart glasses.
smartir.co.uk
Board Advisor
Red Flag Alert
A business intelligence platform providing company data, credit risk and insolvency insight to help organisations trade safely and find new customers.
redflagalert.com
Entrepreneur in Residence
University of Manchester Innovation Factory
The University of Manchester's technology transfer company, which commercialises the university's research through licensing, spinouts and start-ups.
uominnovationfactory.com
Previously
Previously an angel investor and strategic adviser to Adhesys Medical, a non-executive director and investor in Avnio, and a strategic adviser and non-executive director of Fletchers Group, each of which went on to an exit.
How it works
A clear brief. A direct working relationship.
An initial conversation establishes the challenge, the fit and any conflicts with existing commitments. Engagements are then scoped around the work required, with the objectives, time commitment and terms agreed in advance. You work directly with Vikas.
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An initial conversation
To establish the challenge, the fit and any conflicts with existing commitments.
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A scoped engagement
Shaped around the work required, with objectives, time commitment and terms agreed in advance.
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Direct access
You work directly with Vikas, in Manchester, London or remotely.