Board Advisory & Interim Leadership Services
Full-Time, Fractional & On-Demand ConsultingEngage an Expert or a Complete Manged Team
Going Native is our Differentiator
Our Board Advisors and Interim Executives are a mixture of permanent staff and a very small selection of rotating senior associates. All are seasoned executives with many career successes across various industries.
This gives us maximum flexibility to deliver high value services in short timescales. Our clients get absolute excellence, without long ramp up times. Our team can provide depth and expertise in vertical industry sectors as well as bring new, diverse range of thinking to specific business scenarios.
We're Motivated by Your Success, not Sales Targets
We don’t carry the traditional Top4 consulting partners sales targets. We are rated by client satisfaction and measurable business metrics.
Minimal PowerPoint, Maximum Execution
We’re not driven to max out a PowerPoint deck, we’re driven by ‘just enough analysis’ to generate a clear, concise, MECE styled executable solution to whatever situation you’re facing. We are guilty, sometimes, of going straight to the answer.
Every Engagement is Backed by the Whole Business
Your engagement may just be a single consultant, but they will have access to all our available resources. They can leverage 100’s of experts behind the scenes and, within reason, that’s all included in our advisory contract.
Interim Executives
For Months, Weeks or Hours
Corporate Strategy
Created, Tested, Reviewed, Assurend & Defined
Technology Strategy & Leadership
On Tap CIOs & CTOs
Transformation Leadership
Management or Turnaround
Business Optimization
E2E Implementations
Intrapreneurial & Innovation
CPO's, Builders and Entrepreneurs
Organisational Design & TOM
Defined & Implemented
External Assurance
For Projects, Decisions, Partners
Commercial, RFP, Outsourcing
RFP & Outsource Assurance
Board Advisory & Executive Support Services
We deploy capable, credible and impactful individuals, or small teams, to work on your behalf, in the toughest of scenarios, to provide temporary cover, corporate turnarounds or to lead complex change.
Practice Leader
Board Advisory Services
Darren Coomer
As the original founder of The Strategy & Architecture Group, now The S&A Group, (est. 2011), Darren oversees all board level consulting and advisory engagements to ensure quality of delivery whilst supporting our client facing teams.
Darren is a successful corporate CIO, COO and Transformation Executive having held several CIO & COO Board roles, including regulated positions, for large global Financial Services organisations.
A strategic thinker, with an execution orientated nature, Darren is responsible for several highly successful ‘intrapreneurial’ initiatives launching major products in global markets such as FinTech, InsureTech and Web3 on behalf of VC, PE and major organisations.
A transformational CIO and expert, he is most well known in the UK for moving the Co-op Insurance business from a regulatory threshold to a major £185m trade sale within 2yrs. Separating the business from its retail parent and sibling Retail Bank, whilst recovering its IBM led £175m business transformation programme, ultimately setting up the parent company to win a public high court lawsuit against its former Systems Integrator for over £80m plus costs.
With deep experience in challenging CxO roles, Darren provides interim, advisory and NED services to companies undertaking complex business, technology and organisational transformations, M&A and global technology deployments and integrations.
Darren also leads the S&A Groups Ventures programme, providing venture capital and growth support to high tech ventures in areas such as FinTech, AI and Web3.
CIO, COO, Global Executive, Transformation. M&A, Financial Services, Entrepreneur, PE, VC, Scale Up, InsureTech, FinTech, Web3, DeFi,
