Specialist Consultants
members of our core advisory team

Roger Green

Senior Advisor, Petrochemcials
Roger has 35 years’ experience in the chemicals industry, with the last 20 years as a market and technology consultant, including leading teams at Nexant and IHS Chemicals, working for clients across Europe, North America, and Asia.

Roger has delivered buy-side and vendor due diligence support to chemical transactions across the entire valuation range (from technology start-ups to >$10bn).

Michelle Lynch

Senior Advisor, Environmental Technologies
Michelle has 23 years’ experience in the chemicals sector including 14 years at Johnson Matthey and 8 years as a consultant working with start-ups, SME’s, and blue-chip multinationals. 

Michelle has worked for clients across Europe, North America, and Asia, building a strong reputation for breadth and depth of knowledge in CO2 utilisation, catalysis, precious metals, and bio-renewables.

Jan Ramakers

Senior Advisor, Fine Chemicals
Jan has close to 40 years in the chemical industry, including 16 years across a number of businesses within DSM, as the founder of Wood Mackenzie’s fine chemical consultancy practice (based in Scotland), and for the last 20 years operating his own fine chemicals consulting practice.

Over the years Jan has executed many projects for a wide range of companies, ranging from small start-ups to the major multinationals in Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia, Middle East, and Australia. In addition, he has completed projects for the Governments of The Netherlands, Scotland, and Italy.

John Marcantonio

Senior Advisor, Strategic Consulting
John was Chief Chemicals Advisor at KBR Downstream - a company within the KBR organisation that is active in the innovation and business management arena until December 2020.

He continues to advise industrial companies and financial institutions supporting various project development, technology evaluation, market strategy and LTC and LMC activities. He draws upon his 33 years of experience in the chemicals and allied process industries to assist clients with recession beating strategies; cash - coordination - completions. The value of science and industrial innovation is brought to bear on human aspects of business assets and value enhancement.

Anil Vaidya

Senior Advisor, Pharma and Medical Devices
Anil has over 25 years of expertise the life science and healthcare sectors (pharma, biotech, medtech, diagnostics and nutraceuticals) especially in the areas of commercial and technical due diligence.

Anil has broad international experience having lived, worked and studied in the Far East, Asia Pacific and South Asia. 

He is a Director of Chemical Search International as well as a senior advisor of CCD Partners.

Anil holds a joint MSc in Biomedical Engineering from Rutgers University and UMDNJ Medical School, USA, B.Eng (Hons) in Instrumentation & Control Engineering, specialising in the process industries, and an MBA.

Simon Middleburgh

Senior Advisor, Nuclear Materials
Simon is a Professor at Bangor University.

His background is in nuclear fuel materials and materials behaviour in extreme environments. Much of his work has focused on understanding materials by combining the use of predictive modelling techniques and experiment.

Bruce Orr

Senior Advisor, M&A Advisory and Executive Search
Bruce is an inspired international business leader for B2B organizations with a primary focus on accelerated growth and profitability. Diversified accomplishments in leading sales and marketing, strategic planning, business transformation, executive search, corporate development and driving business performance with an entrepreneurial mindset. 

He has strong knowledge of a spectrum of industrial sectors, including energy, specialty chemicals, advanced materials, life sciences and environmental services. A financially literate and proven cross-functional team builder, communicator & leader of market driven organizations… from early stage growth companies to global enterprises.

Ramen Ray Mandal

Senior Advisor, M&A Advisory in India
IIT / IIM alumnus with over 26 years of experiences in Investment Banking, Structured Finance & Corporate Banking

Achim Mauruschat

Senior Advisor, M&A Advisory, Germany and China

An internationally experienced expert with an entrepreneurial mindset.


A loyal and strong Manager and Consultant with more than 20 years of experience in M&A, Strategy, Reorganization and Startups.

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