The Retailer

Executive Support

The Retailer’s management team has significant experience at Director and Senior Executive level*. In our previous roles we have occasionally recognised the need for additional or interim senior level support, which can be very difficult to source.

Because of our independence, we are able to provide confidential support and need not be inhibited in what we say by internal politics. We can provide short-term cover, be a sounding board for new initiatives, act as mentors or, more formally, fulfil the responsibilities of a non-executive director.

The benefit of an external perspective to bring fresh input to potentially tired organisations is increasingly being recognised:

“Non-executive directors are normally appointed to the board primarily for their contribution to the development of the company's strategy. This is clearly right. We have found general acceptance that the non-executive directors should have both a strategic and a monitoring function. In addition, and particularly in the smaller companies, non-executive directors may contribute valuable expertise not otherwise available to management; or they may act as mentors to relatively inexperienced executives.

What matters in every case is that the non-executive director should command the respect of the executives and should be able to work with them in a cohesive team to further the company's interest."
(Hemple. Role of Directors 3.8)

* Individual C.V.s are available on request.