James is a corporate strategy consultant with over 15 years’ experience working with private equity investors, corporates and boards across healthcare, animal health, energy and industrials. He combines a background in veterinary medicine with extensive consulting expertise, enabling him to advise on growth strategies, transactions and performance improvement with both analytical rigour and sector understanding.
James spent nearly eight years at Bain & Company, where he was part of the Private Equity Group and led commercial due diligence projects across Europe, North America and Africa. His work also included large-scale corporate strategy reviews, organisational change programmes and post-merger integrations for multinational businesses.
Since then he has advised clients on a wide range of strategic and transaction-related projects, including the integration of a PE-owned pharmaceutical portfolio across 20+ markets, development of a global growth strategy for an animal feed business, and value creation planning for a multi-billion-dollar energy acquisition. He has also supported international veterinary and agri-businesses on M&A and strategy.
James served as a Non-Executive Director of National Milk Records plc, where he chaired the Strategy Committee and helped lead US expansion ahead of the company’s sale. He holds a veterinary degree from the University of Edinburgh and an MBA from INSEAD.
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