Adrian Vale
Founder & Managing PartnerTwo decades in corporate strategy and turnaround. Sets the standard the firm is held to.
About Norvane
Senior minds, start to finish.
We are the partner ambitious leadership teams call when the numbers have to move, and we stay in the room until they do.
Strategy and transformation, since 2009
Norvane began in 2009 when four partners left larger firms to build the advisory they wished they could have hired: senior in the room, honest in the diagnosis, and accountable for what happens after the deck is closed. Fifteen years on, that standard still decides who we work with, and how we work with them.
What We Stand For
Straight answers, held to the standard of evidence
Four commitments shape every engagement. They are the reason clients keep the same partners in the room, year after year.
Recommendations earn their place here. Every move we propose is stress-tested against data before it reaches your board, so the debate is about trade-offs, not guesswork.
- Proprietary models tested across 240+ engagements
- A quantified impact case for every initiative
The partners you meet on day one are the ones in the room when it ships. There are no hand-offs to junior teams once the contract is signed, because experience shows up where the work is hardest.
No recycled playbooks. Every engagement starts from your market, your constraints, and your team's real capacity to execute, so the plan fits the company you actually run.
We stay until the change holds: owners named, cadence set, and results visible in the operating numbers. A strategy that never leaves the page is not a strategy we are willing to sell.
"Good strategy is not about having every answer on day one. It is about asking harder questions, deciding faster, and holding the course with discipline."
Adrian ValeFounder & Managing Partner
Fifteen years, one measure of success: the change we are hired to make shows up in the numbers, engagement after engagement.
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Sector Depth
We arrive knowing the terrain
Generic playbooks lose to sector fluency. Our teams speak the language of your market on day one, so no week is spent on translation and every week moves the work forward.
Explore Our WorkHealthcare
Hospitals · Clinics · MedTech
Technology
SaaS · Fintech · Deep Tech
Energy & sustainability
Renewables · Utilities · CleanTech
Financial services
Banking · Insurance · Asset Mgmt
Retail & consumer
E-commerce · FMCG · D2C Brands
Real estate
Residential · Commercial · PropTech
How We Work
From first diagnosis
From first diagnosis
to a team that no longer needs us
Every engagement runs the same disciplined arc. It keeps effort where it changes outcomes and makes progress something your board can see, not just something we report.
01
Diagnose
We pressure-test assumptions and find the real constraint first, so the work lands where it moves the numbers, not where it is easiest to start.
02
Sequence
Momentum is a strategic asset. We order the roadmap so visible wins arrive in the first quarter and fund belief in the harder moves ahead.
03
Deliver
Senior partners stay hands-on through implementation. Decisions get made in days, and the plan meets the reality of the operating floor.
04
Transfer
The goal is a team that no longer needs us. Owners are named, cadences set, and the operating model holds long after we leave.
Leadership
The people
The people
in the room
Every mandate is led by a partner with two decades of operating and advisory experience. These are the people accountable for your result.
Marcus Feld
Senior Partner, OperationsRebuilds cost bases and operating models under pressure, without losing the people who run them.
Helena Cross
Partner, Strategy & M&ALeads market-entry and deal work from diligence through to post-close integration.
Nadia Serel
Partner, Digital & GrowthTakes legacy operators to modern platforms and turns new markets into repeatable revenue.
Testimonials
What clients say
What clients say
when the work is done
"Norvane rebuilt our planning cycle around decisions instead of documents. We move in weeks now, not quarters, and the numbers followed."
"They told us what we did not want to hear, then helped us fix it. That candor is what saved this expansion."
"The team stayed until the change stuck. Twelve months on, the operating model still holds, and so do the margins."
Work With Us
Bring us the problem that decides next year's numbers
Whether you need a four-week diagnostic or a partner for the full transformation, the first conversation is free and there is no obligation.