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Sheet 08 / The team

A small senior team.

Deep strategic expertise with a hands-on, pragmatic approach to value creation. The team is deliberately small, so you are likely to meet all of it.

Leadership

Principals who have also had to run things.

Significant experience in strategy consulting, alongside hands-on experience of investing in businesses and holding senior executive roles.

Andrew Hone

Founder

Andrew Hone

Andrew has over twenty years’ experience as a management consultant, across a broad range of sectors. He focuses on strategy consulting, strategy execution and commercial due diligence.

Before founding Zenith Strategy Associates he was a partner with L.E.K. Consulting, and then moved on to Bain & Company. He has worked extensively across the UK, Europe and Australia.

Andrew has an MA (Hons) in Economics from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Scholar, and an MBA with distinction from London Business School, where he was a scholar and a member of the Dean’s List.

ex-Bainex-L.E.K.Commercial due diligenceStrategy execution
Dan Dempsey

Partner

Dan Dempsey

Dan has over thirty years’ experience in strategy, private equity and turnaround. He was previously a partner with L.E.K. Consulting, working with clients across TMT, private equity and building materials.

He has also held a number of senior executive roles, including interim CEO of Tradelink, interim CEO of Onsite Equipment Rental, and CEO of Global Television. He was a director and shareholder of Ezidebit, one of Australia’s largest payment processors, where he oversaw the execution of the strategy and the successful sale of the business.

Dan has an MBA from Macquarie Business School and a B.Bus from Queensland University of Technology.

ex-L.E.K.Interim CEOTurnaroundPrivate equity

Consulting team

Drawn from the leading firms.

Experienced strategy consultants who combine deep analytical capability with a pragmatic, collaborative approach to client work.

Nick

Over ten years in strategy and performance improvement, at top-tier boutiques and in-house with Wesfarmers.

Mining, energy, electricity and manufacturing, plus financial services in Australia and Europe, including large-scale cost reduction and business improvement programs. B.Comm, University of Sydney.

Meena

Over ten years in strategy, transformation and performance improvement, beginning at Bain & Company.

Since then, corporate strategy teams, boutique specialists and top-tier firms across private equity, industrials, financial services, telecommunications and retail in ANZ and the UK. B.Comm and LLB (Hons I), University of Sydney.

Daniel

Strategy and operations consultant with more than five years’ experience, from Port Jackson Partners and Accenture.

He also built a tourism business of his own, which is a useful corrective when advising other people how to run theirs. B.Comm and Economics with Distinction, UNSW.

Lily

Over two years as a management consultant at Bain & Company.

Healthcare, financial services and manufacturing, across strategy, performance improvement and implementation. Bachelor of Actuarial Studies with a minor in Business Economics, UNSW.

Maarten

Over six years with the KPMG Global Strategy Group, across the Netherlands, the UK, Sweden, Turkey and Australia.

Before KPMG he worked for a boutique corporate finance and investment firm. BBA and MSc in Finance & Investments, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.

Jesse

Over ten years in strategy, digital transformation and product development, beginning at BCG.

More recently he was GM of an education business, where he oversaw a post-merger integration. B.Eng, UNSW; MBA, Harvard Business School.

Working with us

You will meet the people who do the work.

There is no delivery pyramid beneath the names on this page. If you would like to work alongside them, we keep a database of contract consultants.