Great to see PCB Partners named in the Spear’s Magazine 500 this year – the only M&A company to make the list.
https://spears500.com/profile/SPAC743/pcb-partners/
And well deserved recognition for PCB founder Ben Doltis who also makes the list in a personal capacity.
https://spears500.com/profile/SPA829/ben-doltis/
PCB Partners, global M&A advisory firm serving digital and consulting businesses, appoints the founder and first CEO of Accenture Interactive, Tim Breene, as Strategic Advisor to the Board.
We’re pleased to announce that after several months of exploratory discussions and following his recent retirement as CEO of World Relief, Tim Breene, the Founder and first CEO of Accenture Interactive, has now been formally appointed by PCB Partners as Senior Advisor to support the leadership team with its global expansion plans. Tim’s previous leadership positions included Accenture’s Chief Strategy and Corporate Development Officer and Group Chief Executive of Business Consulting. Tim has also held Board and Advisory Board positions with a variety of start-up companies and in private equity, as well as being a Partner with McKinsey.
Ben Doltis, Co-Founder of PCB Partners commented, “Tim’s achievements at Accenture and thereafter have transformed the global technology and consulting industry. I’m delighted to have Tim’s deep leadership experience, industry knowledge and relationships supporting PCB’s senior leadership team and our global clients.”
Tim is based in Boston and will work closely with Ramone Param, PCB Partners recently appointed Managing Director for North America. PCB Partners business is seeing growing new opportunities in the region and has strengthened its presence and leadership on the ground to better serve its regional clients. PCB’s presence in the US supports the firm’s global team headquartered in London with additional presence in Mumbai, Shanghai, Sydney and Tel Aviv.
Tim commented, “PCB Partners is creating something truly differentiated in the industry. I’m very excited to be supporting the leadership team as we take PCB to the next stage in its global development.”
About PCB Partners (www.pcbpartners.co.uk)
PCB Partners provides buy-side and sell-side services, with a focus on disruptive technologies, digital transformation, management consulting and creative marketing services businesses. Ben Doltis founded PCB Partners with one-time LDC Managing Director, Tim Farazmand in 2018. The leadership have built a world class team of some 20 people, from diverse backgrounds. In order to achieve their objectives, it was important for PCB to hire outside of traditional M&A staff and attract entrepreneurs who had first-hand experience of buying and selling their own companies. In addition to Tim, these have included Ramone Param (ex-PwC and Equiteq North America), Brett Newland (ex-Accenture Security COO), Peter Jacobs (former PwC senior partner), Mark Casement (PwC), and advisor Andrew Bloch (Founder of Frank PR) in the UK; Animesh Parihar (ex-Head of Global Delivery at Finastra) in India, Sunnie De Grow in Shanghai (PwC Corporate Development) Matthew Melhuish (Founder of BMF and former Enero CEO) in Australia and advisor Erez Benovich in Israel. The firm have also invested in a dedicated research team with strong relationships with academia and industry associations. In a short space of time PCB Partners has created a new kind of M&A Advisory Firm recognized by major corporates and private equity investors in the technology and consulting space.
PCB CORPORATE FINANCE APPOINTS BRETT NEWLAND AS MANAGING PARTNER
NEWLAND TO LEAD PCB CORPORATE FINANCE’S CONTINUED EXPANSION INTO THE GLOBAL DIGITAL AND CONSULTING M&A ADVISORY SPACE
30 June 2021
The technology and consulting-led M&A advisory firm, PCB Corporate Finance, has today announced the appointment of Brett Newland as Managing Partner.
Before joining PCB Brett spent much of his career as a Managing Director in Accenture’s corporate development and M&A teams, supporting the firm’s largest and most complex transactions on both the buying and delivery side. His last role at Accenture was as Chief Operating Officer at their global security practice, where he ensured the operational efficiency of the business, managed key ecosystem relationships and supported major acquisitions into the global business. He joined PCB Partners in 2019 as Partner.
PCB is a leading mergers & acquisitions advisory firm, rooted in entrepreneurial culture. It provides buy-side and sell-side services, with a focus on disruptive technologies, digital transformation, management consulting and creative marketing services businesses. It was founded in 2018 by entrepreneur Ben Doltis and former LDC Managing Director, Tim Farazmand.
In just three years PCB has grown into an international advisory business that has worked at the highest levels within the digital and consulting sectors. The company has built a global team of 20 people, bolstering its business in the UK and adding new offices in the USA (NYC and Boston), Australia (Sydney) and India (Mumbai). In 2020, the firm also expanded its services from buyside M&A and now offers a range of corporate finance advisory services, growth advisory, fund raising and private equity coverage services.
Since joining the firm Brett has completed four transactions for consulting clients across the digital transformation market. This includes advising on the acquisition of a strategy consulting business in financial services, an AWS premier consulting partner, the UK’s leading data consultancy and a 350 FTE cyber security consulting firm – playing on Brett’s previous role as the Group COO for Accenture Security.
PCB Corporate Finance’s vision is to shake up the traditional investment banking industry, specifically in technology and consulting. To this end Ben Doltis and Tim Farazmand assembled a team of the best advisors from around the globe, including Peter Jacobs (former PwC Senior Partner Corporate Finance) Andrew Bloch (Founder of Frank PR), Ramone Param (ex- Equiteq Director, ex-PwC Global Corporate Development), Mark Casement (ex- PwC Corporate Finance), Animesh Parihar (ex-Head of Global Delivery at Finastra) in India, Matthew Melhuish (Founder of BMF and former Enero CEO) in Australia and Erez Benovich (ex-Managing Director of Experis Israel, a ManpowerGroup company) in Israel.
Commenting on his appointment Brett Newland said: “We’re building something very special at PCB Corporate Finance. I’m delighted to have the opportunity to lead a great team of people and help us reach the next stage in our development.”
PCB’s Founder Ben Doltis added: “Time and time again Brett has shown how valuable he is to the growth of PCB Corporate Finance. We’re already working with some of the world’s leading companies and I’m certain with Brett as Managing Partner we’ll soon be working with many more.”
It is always pleasing to receive testimonials from our Buy-Side clients, so we were delighted to receive this one from Reply.
Reply retained PCB Partners to help them find and acquire off-market consulting firms, to help them bolster their capabilities in their UK organisation.
It has been a pleasure supporting them on two acquisitions, that completed at the very end of 2020 – we look forward to continue working with them on their inorganic plans in 2021.
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Matthew Melhuish, the former CEO of publicly listed marketing services company Enero, has joined PCB Partners in Australia as a Board Advisor.
The marketing industry veteran brings over three decades of experience working across the UK, Europe, US and Australia to the firm. At PCB Partners, he will focus on supporting the identification of targets, providing buy-side and sell-side advisory services, delivering transaction support and bringing together entrepreneurs and investors.
PCB Partners was founded in 2018 by Ben Doltis and Tim Farazmand, after they met during the process of Doltis selling his first consulting business. Farazmand was Managing Director at LDC, the private equity arm of Lloyds Bank – and although Doltis decided not to sell his firm in 2013 to LDC, the duo kept contact and teamed up to launch their M&A advisory. PCB Partners specialises in the technology and business services sectors, with a focus on the mid-market segment.
As an entrepreneur, Melhuish founded BMF, an Australian creative agency which grew to 250 employees. After selling BMF to Enero, he became CEO of the group. In the role, he led the firm’s buy-and-build strategy and more recently the successful turnaround of the services business.
Melhuish concluded his Enero role in this year, and also serves as a Board Director of coffee company Campos. He also acts as an independent consultant to various businesses in the football, footwear and private wealth management sectors.
Commenting on his role at PCB Partners, Melhuish said: PCB Partner’s entrepreneurial spirit and empathy for the entrepreneurial journey really sets them apart from others in this space. I’m excited to be joining them and look forward to bringing their very different approach to the Australian market.”
The appointment comes shortly after PCB Partners bolstered its team in India with Animesh Parihar, and in the UK with PwC veterans Julian Brown and Peter Jacobs.
Following on from the Royds Withy King webinar in which they spoke to Scott Moeller about tackling cognitive bias in M&A decision making – launching Headroom, our buy-side thought leadership series, with a joint White Paper with The Business School (formerly CASS), City, University of London and PCB Partners.
You can follow the link below to download now and learn about cognitive processes at play during various decision-making steps, and ways to de-bias the decisions that could have costly consequences:
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PCB Partners has announced two appointments to further strengthen its team and international reach. Matthew Melhuish joins as a Board adviser in Australia and Animesh Parihar as a consultant.
Until recently Melhuish was CEO of Enero, a publicly listed marketing services company. Enero had previously acquired his business, BMF, as well as Frank – which was founded by fellow PCB advisor, Andrew Bloch. Parihar joins as a consultant and will help Indian pure play IT companies grow inorganically, both internationally and locally. He brings to PCB Partners over 40 years’ industry experience – most recently as Head of Global Delivery at the financial technology company, Finastra.
They follow the recent appointment of PwC veterans Julian Brown and Peter Jacobs, and Frank founder Andrew Bloch.