Happy New Year from us all at Hill Coates Associates and we resolved to remind our private equity clients of Hill Coates’s ABC: A. Origination of pre-assessed potential acquisitions usually with a “Pathfinder” prospective chairman or chief executive if not a whole MBO/MBI team B. Introduction of senior sector/PE-experienced executives who can collaborate during an […]

After over a decade of helping its private equity and private investor clients to find investee companies and the management teams to lead them, Hill Coates is actively working as as a rare combination of corporate finance and executive search boutique. Crucial to this is our Pathfinder Programme which originates senior executives from specific sectors […]

For the fourth year running Hill Coates Associates has been pleased to sponsor the hospitality package at the Combat Stress Clay Day at the Royal Berkshire Shooting School at Pangbourne. This was particularly apt in this centenary year of the end of the First World War when so many soldiers were executed for cowardice for having […]

Sometimes leadership is simply a matter of thorough alignment between management and workforce on the vision and the plan as well as financially. Since the Frank Appel became chief executive of Deutsche Post DHL in 2008, he has sought to make the German postal service and international courier an engaging place to work. The humdrum […]

Leadership is a much over-used word but it seem to us it has never been more relevant in making employees align with the task in hand, both in large companies and small. In this article in the FT, Rupert Soames tells how he volunteered for the job of leading Serco, whose public-sector contracts include running […]