The advisory arm
Crest Partners
Strategic Insights. Enduring Value.
A corporate development and strategy consultancy working with boards and executive teams to set direction and see the work through to delivered outcomes. Every engagement opens with a whole-company assessment — positioning, customers, systems and people — before the brief is narrowed.
What we do
Three service lines.
Corporate Planning
Strategic and business planning, monitoring frameworks, balanced scorecards, digital transformation roadmapping, executive retreats.
Corporate Development
Business valuations, mergers and acquisitions, organisational design, ESG and sustainable development.
Project Management
Business case development, process re-engineering, project execution, change management.
Delivered
- 0110+ strategic and business plans authored
- 0210+ retreats facilitated
- 03~5 multi-million dollar valuations
- 041 acquisition and 5 merger integrations
- 0510+ organisational redesigns
- 0620+ business cases approved
- 0720+ processes re-engineered
- 0820+ projects implemented
Industry experience: banking · insurance · payments · remittance · wealth management · telecoms · manufacturing.
“We operate with the highest levels of integrity, and we are unafraid to challenge conventional norms.”
The record
The record behind the advice
The engagements and results below were delivered personally by our Founder in executive roles at a Jamaican financial services group, a global consumer foods and financial services group, and a commercial bank — prior to founding Crest Partners. They are presented as evidence of capability, not as firm-level client work.
- $92M
- Cost reduction delivered in a single financial year
- 71.3%
- Reduction in operational losses, from $64.7M to $18.6M within two years
- 20% → 53%
- Client migration to digital channels
- 90.44%
- JSE corporate governance rating, highest attained by the entity
Selected engagements
- 01Group 2030 strategy, developed with PwC
- 02Group Digital Factory, established with McKinsey & Company
- 03Group ESG framework, co-developed with Nasdaq
- 04Two concurrent M&A integrations across insurance and data
- 05Enterprise operational transformation across five business units
- 06Digital bank, loan origination and ATM acquiring business cases