About Us
This is an advisory business, which provides advice on the most pressing issues for business and organisations.
There is a need for a more agile, specialised entrant in the market which focuses exclusively on providing independent, objective, and responsive advice.
Experience
Who we are. Meet our team.
Chairman
Stuart Roden
Stuart has over thirty years’ experience at the most successful and influential financial institutions. He was Chairman of Lansdowne Partners, having previously founded and co-managed their Developed Markets Strategy since its inception in 2001.
Stuart started his career in the City in 1984, joining SG Warburg & Co. He then worked at McKinsey and prior to joining Lansdowne in 2001, was a Managing Director of Merrill Lynch Investment Managers.
Managing Partner
Simon Lewis
Simon has worked at the highest levels of business and politics throughout his career, overseeing the response to leadership changes, major transactions, crisis moments and regulatory scrutiny.
He was the founding CEO of AFME, the trade group representing Europe’s wholesale banking industry. He is a current board member of Innovate Finance and an Advisor to the Board of Open Banking. He has also worked as Director of Corporate Affairs at Vodafone, Centrica and NatWest. He was the Official Spokesperson for Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the first Communications Secretary to the late Queen.
Partner
Thomas Lewis
Thomas was a founding partner of WJL Partners which provides strategic communications support to some of the world’s largest technology companies, including Klarna, Watershed Climate and Clover Health.
Prior to this, he worked at Finsbury, the global PR firm, for seven years, where he supported a range of FTSE 100 companies, including AstraZeneca, British Land, London Stock Exchange and worked on a number of major global M&A transactions including AstraZeneca-Pfizer, Shell-BG and Glencore-Xstrata.
Director
Olivia Lewis
Olivia joined Lewis Advisors from the International Affairs Unit in the Cabinet Office where she provided policy advice, crisis response, and delivered international engagements for the Prime Minister. During this time, Olivia was seconded to the Royal Household, working for His Majesty the King (as Prince of Wales) on international engagement, his charitable interests, and accession preparation.
This followed three years in corporate and strategic communications, which included secondments to clients in Saudi Arabia and Paris, as well as research and event delivery for the International Affairs think tank, Chatham House.