Your exec team is pulling in five directions. You're firefighting instead of leading. The board wants answers you don't have time to find.

I fix that.

I'm Mark Wolton. I embed alongside PE-backed CEOs during turnarounds, transitions, and integrations. I create the space for you to think strategically - and I get your executive team delivering as one unit.

£3.5M loss → £14M profit. 11 months.

CEO transition with zero executive attrition

See around corners

I’ve built an intelligence system that captures every conversation, every data point, every signal – and synthesises them into patterns others miss. By the time it’s obvious, I’ve already seen it.I’ve sat in the room when companies are bleeding cash and executives are overwhelmed. I create the structure, cadence, and accountability that turns chaos into momentum. Not strategy decks – actual operational rhythm that gets results.

EBITDA -10% to +18%

Business Strategy & Transformation

Calm under fire

M&A creates confusion. New CEOs inherit complexity. I build the steering committees, set up the governance, and become the connective tissue between workstreams, functions, and egos. The glue that holds it together.

Zero exec attrition

EXECUTIVE LEVERAGE

Listen more than I talk

Work that used to take days now takes hours. Board-ready analysis delivered same-day. CEO prep time cut in half. I’ve built systems that capture intelligence and turn it into action – giving executives back the time to focus on what only they can do.

Structure in weeks. Decisions in months. Breathing room from day one.

The Pattern

Months 1-2: I load the system. Understand your business, your people, your data. Build trust without noise.

Months 3-5: I build the infrastructure. ELT rhythm, reporting systems, accountability structures. You stop firefighting.

Months 6+: Strategic partnership. I’m seeing what you can’t see yet – the patterns that change strategy before they become problems.

“You are the glue. You multiply performance and efficiency.”
— Walter Leicher, CEO, Papirfly