Our Team
Our projects range from leading M&A programmes for Fortune Global 500 clients down to one-off events such as training sessions, with everything in-between. These engagements are delivered by one of our permanent team of Partners, working with a team made up of our Associates and Strategic Partners.
We have built a global network of over 200 experienced M&A professionals, which collectively cover everything from the beginning to the end of the transaction lifecycle, and have specialisms across industry sectors, business areas and common downstream integration activities. Working with such a breadth and depth of resources allows us to customise project teams for each client with the most suitable consultants available locally or regionally.
Because we do not have a permanent headcount, we are far more flexible in finding the right resources for each project, and our costs are lower than traditional consulting firms. DD Consulting is based across the UK & USA, but our network of Associates and Strategic Partners is global, and we work collaboratively together to deliver cross-border engagements.
DANNY A.DAVIS
Danny M&A integration experience ranges from small to large deals, with recent deals including the pre-deal integration planning on a 50,000 person company purchasing a 25,000 person company, a $6bn global deal where he helped plan and run the European side across 30 countries, 250 business units, 26 functions through to a small private equity set of deals where he helped the CEO and management team for 12 weeks on a set of very small deals 200 people buying 25 and then 75 person companies. He is often brought in 6-12 months pre-deal to discuss M&A integration strategy, planning, capability, then runs alongside due diligence as deal lead for integration and delivers out the synergies.
Danny teaches M&A at Cambridge and is a fellow, is a guest speaker at London Business School on M&A integration, was programme director of M&A at Henley business school, a Trustee on the Board of the Chartered Management Institute chairing the Marketing and Policy Committee.
He is author of the book “M&A integration: How to do it” and “CROSS-SELL TO SCALE, The Executive’s Growth Guide to M&A, Re-Organization and Profit Optimization”
VAUGHAN GILES
Vaughan brings over 20 years of hands-on experience in supporting the financial services and manufacturing sectors through various cross-functional activities, including carve-outs, BPO, IPO preparation, transitions, transformations, and mergers and separations. He has held roles in consulting and integration/programme/project management offices, assisting private equity-backed firms and large corporations in achieving their growth goals. Vaughan offers advisory services aimed at delivering tangible business results, managing delivery risks, and ensuring progress to instil confidence in execution.
CHARLES HITCHINGS
Charles is a Chartered Accountant and tax specialist with 20+ years of experience in advising and transforming international Tax, Treasury and Corporate finance teams. He has covered most aspects of corporate, employment and transactional taxes, also project managing structured finance, M&A and restructuring situations.
Charles has focussed his worked in investment banking, asset management and funds with clients across Private Equity, Venture Capital, Infrastructure and Transportation. He also has experience in the entertainment, oil and gas, and engineering sectors.
BIBHAS ROY
Bibhas has over 23 years of hands-on integration and transformation experience mainly in the financial services sector. He has worked with c-suite leaders in both in-house and management consultancy teams for Wealth and Asset Management clients to realise the business case outcomes from post-transition programmes of work.
Bibhas has worked on 20+ post-transition optimisation and cross-border technology and operational integrations. He had multi-million pound budget responsibility with teams involving 3rd party vendors from both merging entities. He has delivered Data initiatives to provide a holistic customer view to realise expected synergies to cross-sell, implement common compliance and risk approach with supporting process and technology, synchronise back-office operations and settlements workflows with intelligent automation amongst others.
MARK ELLIOTT
Mark is an experienced communications consultant across a diverse range of sectors including Banking & Finance, Transport & Logistics, Oil & Gas, and Consumer Brands. He specialises in transformation, integration and change communications. His experience as a consultant is based on a career of 25 years as an in-house Communications Director with a string of high profile, global firms undergoing complex transformation and change.
In these roles, he has worked closely with C-Suite, PMO, HR, Finance, & IT executives, leading functional Comms teams to develop and deliver carefully tailored strategies for the full spectrum of internal and external stakeholder audiences.
Mark was Integration Comms Lead for Lloyds Banking Group, following the £23bn acquisition of HBOS plc by LloydsTSB, then the largest ever banking deal in Europe – and he led on Comms for the subsequent divestment of non-core businesses. He was Comms Lead for Lloyds Banking Group’s £2bn acquisition of MBNA from Bank of America. He was Comms Lead in the run-up to the nationalisation of Arriva Northern Trains, the UK’s largest rail operator by UK Government.
MARIA GYUROVA
With over 20 years of experience in data services, Maria brings a wealth of expertise in delivering large-scale data transformations, leading and architecting data solutions across financial services, private equity, telecommunications, retail and government sectors. Maria specialises in cloud, analytics, technical leadership, migrations, carveouts, modern data platforms, architecture frameworks and data strategy.
HOWARD MOORE
Howard is a seasoned executive with over 25 years of global expertise in M&A Integration and a proven track record across Governance, Risk, Control, Strategy implementation, and development.
His extensive experience spans leading organizations such as BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank, LSEG, and Zoopla, and includes Europe, Asia Australasia and North America.
Howard possesses specialized knowledge in operational modeling and implementation, operational excellence, governance and control structures, regulatory compliance, financial and non-financial risk management, operational AI integration, and data management.
JOHN CHESHIRE
John is a former Big-4 and SI Programme Director that has led major transformation programmes around the world across many sectors including Financial Services, Telecoms and Energy & Utilities. He has worked with client C-suite leaders to define and realise business benefits and managed large teams including third party vendors.
John has led business separations including Telecoms operators that have been compelled to separate through regulation, carve-outs with associated TSA exit management and integrations of acquired businesses. To support this, he has considerable experience with the introduction of strong governance and reporting plus supporting tooling.
