Robert Fedder
Founder · Turnaround & transformation
Robert’s career combines senior operating roles, corporate turnarounds, performance improvement and technology venture building, alongside experience in major advisory firms.
Read Robert’s profileOur teamDifferent disciplines.
Different disciplines.
Shared responsibility.
Experienced executives and specialists, brought together around the work that needs to be done.
The Nil Plus Ultra team
Depth where the challenge demands it.
Our people bring experience of leading businesses, running functions and delivering complex change. That combination allows us to connect the commercial, financial, operational and organisational parts of an assignment.
A mandate may call for a single interim executive, a focused leadership team or specialist expertise alongside an existing management team. We agree the people and responsibilities around the needs of the engagement.
The proposed team and relevant experience are discussed directly with the sponsor.
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Amanda Browne
Strategic HR adviser
Amanda brings 30 years of HR experience across global organisations and SMEs, including Vodafone, Hewlett Packard and Oracle. A Chartered Member of the CIPD, she advises boards and executive teams on transformation and organisational change.
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Stephen Benzikie
Strategy, marketing & communications
Stephen advises boards on strategy, positioning and communication through change. His clients have included Dyson, Waitrose, BAE Systems, BP, Permira, Boston Consulting Group and Clifford Chance.
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Adrian Walters
Programmes & delivery
Adrian brings contract turnaround experience from BT, where his key clients included Bank of New York Mellon, Sumitomo Mitsui and Bank of China. His wider experience includes Serco and Cignpost Diagnostics.
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Ludwig Schweikl
Technology, digital platforms & delivery
Ludwig brings more than 25 years’ experience across digital products, customer platforms and technology operations, including assignments with Telefónica Germany and Bosch. He connects business priorities with practical technology delivery, from initial requirements through launch and operation.
Read Ludwig’s profileThe team around
the team.
Our leadership team is complemented by a wider network of experienced colleagues and specialists. We bring them into assignments where their expertise will make a difference, drawing on established working relationships.
That gives us the breadth to build a team around the task—and the flexibility to adapt as the work develops.
Collective capability
Experience across the business.
The disciplines work together. Each engagement brings the relevant experience into a coherent plan and a clear working structure.
Executive leadership
Turnaround, interim general management, business direction and stakeholder alignment.
Finance & performance
Financial management, commercial analysis, cost disciplines and performance visibility.
Operations & commercial
Operating-model change, procurement, supply chain and commercial performance.
People & organisation
Organisation design, leadership, HR and the people dimensions of change.
Technology & digital
Digital business, technology-enabled change, online operations and systems expertise.
Programme delivery
Programme direction, implementation discipline and coordination across complex change.
What needs to change?
A confidential conversation is a good place to start.