"Espenaus Consulting knew exactly what we needed, and understood our product and industry very quickly to deliver a successful business plan."Hilton
"The project was completed faster than we had expected and Mark made sure we fully understood how to use the final model."O Investments
"Very high quality, thorough work which is now ingrained in our organisation. We continue to work with Espenaus on next steps."St Paul's
Espenaus Consulting is a different kind of financial & strategy consultancy. To deliver the best outcomes for clients we think requires real creative thinking, alongside traditional financial analysis & strategy models.
Mark has twenty years' experience delivering strategic advice to organisations across a multitude of industries. Before founding Espenaus Consulting, Mark spent 12 years at J.P. Morgan where he led the European media & internet equity research team, advising institutional investors on industry trends, company research and equity valuations, and participating in many equity capital raisings in the online space. Mark also spent three years in Investment Banking at UBS and J.P. Morgan, and a further three years working as a Strategy Consultant at FOXTEL, where he helped transition the company from analogue to digital TV.
We will work with you to overcome hurdles, whether that's raising capital, assessing the feasibility of a new venture, improving how you present to investors, better understanding your competitors or new industries, or developing your business plan and financial model. Sometimes it's just important to have someone to run ideas past.
We will research and collect data from client interviews and other sources to help evaluate not only the potential financial outcome of a project and how to fund it, but also whether it may be the right fit for your organisation, potential issues, and the solutions needed to implement it.
We have over twenty years' experience building financial models, from the simplistic to highly detailed, and with the ability to run scenarios, and link to any proprietary database or content management systems. The key for us is ensuring that clients fully understand the model and are confident to use it, and that we have delivered a model tailored to suit their specific needs.
Bringing together all facets of your business in one place can help understand what is working, what is missing, and what is possible. We can help develop your marketing, operating and financing strategies, including a set of clear milestones to be achieved so that your business plan is a tool to continually assess your performance rather than just an initial plan to help you obtain funding.
Knowing how to present to investors and other stakeholders, both verbally as well as via written communications, is key to an organisation's ongoing stake holder relations. We will help you from developing your three bullet point short story, to board & investor presentations, to writing a full funding proposal or prospectus.
We can assist you with completing due diligence, providing an extensively researched, strategic view on the future of an industry or your competitor landscape. As with all our services, we deliver research that has longevity and will serve as an ongoing reference for your organisation.
Simply getting advice from an impartial, outside observer on how to overcome hurdles, or on the best next steps, can be helpful. We can help you to ask the right questions and solve the key issues that you and your organisation are facing.
Our clients span industries as diverse as media & online, infrastructure & utilities, retail, property, and financial services. We work with social enterprises, partnerships, private and public companies, and government-backed organisations.
While most of our clients are UK-based, we also provide services internationally.
And our clients come in all shapes and sizes.
We work with small businesses just starting out, to charities & not-for-profit organisations, to private equity & venture capitalists, to large, well-known organisations.
We thought about how we could present a case study that demonstrates how we work and the outcomes we have achieved, while also preserving client confidentiality. We believe our website does just that.
We created this site from a blank page - without templates, without any prior knowledge of HTML, CSS, and building websites. The steps taken to create this site from start to finish are much of the same steps we take when providing client solutions.
We started by researching the competition. Most management consultant and strategy consutlancy sites have a generic look and feel - often lots of people wearing glasses sitting around laptops, and all very serious. While client engagement, collaboration, teamwork, experience and use of strategic models and tools is essential, these should be a given for any strategy consultancy. We have them too. But you need more.
Instead, we wanted our consultancy to stand out from the competition, be remembered, and clearly convey our message - much the same way we seek to fully understand your organisation and provide solutions that best fit your needs and help you to stand out.
Having understood the competition, our organisation's position in the market, and how that should be reflected in our site, we looked at off-the-shelf website templates and quickly found we needed a bespoke solution instead. We then had two choices - pay someone to build our bespoke site or do it ourselves.
A quick feasibility study assessed our capabilities (we watched some online lectures and tried building some site basics), the needs and complexity of our intended site, and the cost (our time vs paying a developer) led us to the optimal solution to build it our selves.
We planned out the content and structure of our site. We searched for just the right photos to provide the consistency and brand messaging that we sought. We quickly finished online courses on HTML, CSS and Javascript to gain the necessary skills, and sought help from tech experts on a very small number of more difficult aspects.
The result is what you see. We hope you like what we've created. But even if you don't, we hope you can appreciate that we think outside the box and likewise, are able to deliver bespoke, impactful solutions for your organisation.
