23 January 2023
PCB Partners are delighted that Co-Founder Ben Doltis interviewed with Forbes to tell them what we are all about…
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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.
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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.
*Former President of PricewaterhouseCoopers Corporate Finance LLC in the US, Julian Brown, joins as Managing Partner*
*Former PwC Corporate Finance Partner, Peter Jacobs, joins as Chairman*
*Frank founder, Andrew Bloch, joins as Board Advisor*
Fast-growing M&A advisory firm PCB Partners has today announced the appointment of three industry heavyweights to further strengthen its team. They are PwC veterans Julian Brown and Peter Jacobs, who will spearhead PCB’s investment into corporate finance, and Frank founder Andrew Bloch, who will help pivot PCB buy-side clients into the world of digital and creative marketing services agencies.
PCB Partners is a leading mergers & acquisitions advisory firm rooted in entrepreneurial culture. They provide buy-side and sell-side services, with a focus on disruptive technologies, digital transformation, management consulting and creative marketing services businesses.
The firm was founded in 2018 by Ben Doltis and Tim Farazmand, after they met during the process of Ben selling his first consulting business. Tim was Managing Director at LDC, the
private equity arm of Lloyds Bank – and Ben founded the SJB Group, building it into the market-leading executive search firm in digital and management consulting. After considering selling to Tim and LDC, Ben sold it to ManpowerGroup in 2013.
Although Ben had decided not to sell his firm to LDC, Tim and Ben still subsequently got together to create a very different kind of M&A advisory firm, which stayed true to Ben’s entrepreneurial heritage, while at the same time understanding the very specific needs of multinational corporations.
Julian Brown joins as Managing Partner. As a Corporate Finance partner at Arthur Andersen, Deloitte and latterly PwC, he has 30 years’ experience advising public and private clients on domestic and cross-border mergers & acquisitions, capital raising, and divestitures.
During his career, Julian has been based in London, Madrid, Toronto and, most recently, New York, where as President of PwC’s US Corporate Finance business he led a team of more than 200 investment banking professionals across North and South America.
Julian Brown says: “I was attracted by the opportunity to work with partners from such a wealth of different backgrounds, all with a real entrepreneurial approach. After close to 30 years learning the M&A trade, then building businesses based pretty strongly around a single skillset, PCB Partners struck me as a differentiated model that would resonate far more strongly with clients. Its DNA provides us with instant credibility across the client spectrum from founder-run to large multinational businesses and, frankly, keeps things interesting for me after so long in the business.”
Peter Jacobs joins as Chairman. Peter had a 35-year career at PwC where, as a senior partner, he established and led its UK and European Private Equity M&A Advisory business. Peter has advised numerous companies and management teams on acquisitions, disposals, fundraisings and management buyouts.
Peter Jacobs says: “I’ve had a number of approaches from other M&A advisers, but saw little point in joining anyone with a me-too, undifferentiated offering. For me it was very much a case of ‘been there, done that’ so I concentrated on building a small portfolio of NED roles. When Ben and Tim first spoke to me about PCB Partners, I realised they had a far more interesting proposition in mind – an M&A business that truly understood and spoke the same language as its clients, and most importantly from an M&A perspective, one that had great people to work with and real reach and knowledge within its chosen market sectors.”
Andrew Bloch joins as Board Advisor. He is the founder of Frank, one of the UK’s most successful and established creative PR agencies. He set up Frank in 2000 and helped orchestrate the sale of the business to the Australian marketing services group, Enero, in 2007. Frank subsequently initiated another transaction post earn-out that saw a percentage of the agency returned to the management team.
Andrew is the official spokesperson for Lord Sugar and has acted for him since 2001. He is a founding mentor of the School of Communication Arts, a member of the Superbrands Council, and a business mentor to The Prince’s Trust.
Andrew Bloch says: “I’m delighted to be joining the advisory board of such a dynamic and fast-growing M&A business. PCB Partners has built an amazing team of individuals who are a breath of fresh air in the somewhat stuffy world of corporate finance. I’m looking forward to using my experience of having built an agency from scratch and selling it successfully to help broker similar deals for buy-side clients and agency owners. The interesting thing about the buy-side of M&A’s is that you can give access to companies that other M&A firms cannot, many of whose owners haven’t considered selling before. On the sell-side, I have first-hand experience of the importance of finding the right buyer. I’ve been through their journey and can help them make the right choices every step of the way.”
Commenting on the appointments, Ben Doltis says: “Julian, Peter and Andrew are great additions to the PCB Partners’ team. Tim and I are delighted they’ve come on board. Each brings unique skills and experience, which will really help us with all areas of our business. In Julian and Peter we have a couple of real industry heavyweights and in Andrew someone who is highly respected in marketing services and has been there, done it and worn the T-shirt. I’m really excited to be working with them and for the future of our firm.”
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WINNERS ANNOUNCED FOR THE 2ND ANNUAL EMEA CORPORATE GROWTH AWARDS
Top Transactions, Firms, Teams and Professionals Along with Lifetime and Leadership Award Winners Honoured on 25th April at the Lansdowne Club
London, New York, 30 April, 2018 – The M&A Advisor announced the winners of the 2nd Annual EMEA Corporate Growth Awards, in partnership with S&P Global Market Intelligence, at a Black Tie Gala to a lively, sold-out crowd at The Lansdowne Club on Wednesday, 25 April.
The Awards Gala, hosted by CNBC Anchor Tania Bryer, recognised and celebrated the leading corporations, transactions, teams and professionals – including the financial, legal and consulting team members, that played a key role in successful corporate development across the region in 2017, together with the inductees into The M&A Advisor Hall of Fame.
An independent judging panel of industry experts leveraged The S&P Capital IQ platform, an offering of S&P Global Market Intelligence, to evaluate nominations representing over 300 individual companies from across Africa, Europe and The Middle East – a wide and varied group with deals valued at £10 million to tens of billions. To view judging panel, CLICK HERE.
“Since the inception of the M&A Advisor Awards in 2002, we have been recognising the leading dealmakers, firms and transactions. And each year we celebrate the creativity, perseverance and ingenuity of our industry’s professionals”, says David Fergusson, President and Co-Chief Executive Officer of The M&A Advisor. “It is our great pleasure to partner with S&P Global Market Intelligence to award the leading corporations, transactions, teams and professionals in the EMEA region that played a key role in successful corporate growth strategies in 2017. And we were honoured to celebrate the accomplishments of Lifetime Achievement Award winner Tim Farazmand of Palatine Capital and Leadership Award winners Richard Madden of DC Advisory and Ian Bagshaw of White & Case.”
Earlier in the day, The M&A Advisor hosted an exclusive invitation-only Think Tank Corporate Growth Forum on the CNBC Europe Studio floor with many of the award winning c-suite executives, M&A dealmakers, and finance professionals participating along with technology industry leaders. This assembly provided a unique opportunity for the professionals guiding and executing business growth strategies to engage with their peers on some of the greatest challenges and opportunities facing companies in this market today.
For a detailed list of the 2nd Annual EMEA Corporate Growth Award Winners CLICK HERE.
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