Independent strategic counsel, mentoring, and guidance on navigating the finance and investment ecosystem

An independent advisory practice founded and run by Chris Turpin.

What Farringdon does

Farringdon Advisory works in two ways – often together.

Strategic counsel and mentoring

Farringdon Advisory works with leaders on the questions that shape their business: commercial and product strategy, positioning, sales and partnerships, preparing for investment or acquisition, and leadership, succession and board effectiveness. This draws on Chris’s experience of running businesses and sitting on boards, and it applies across sectors.

Navigating the finance and investment ecosystem

Many organisations and individuals need to understand how banks, asset managers, pension funds and investors think: to position a business or an idea, to engage institutional investors on a risk that matters to them, to sell into the sector, or to develop a career path within it. Chris has spent more than 30 years inside that system, most of it in asset management, and knows how its parts connect. Often the work involves translation – different sectors speak different languages – and Chris helps them communicate and engage effectively.

Who it works with

Clients range from founders and growing businesses to mission-driven organisations and established firms in financial services, technology and sustainability. Current clients include a US cyber security firm and a business improving outcomes for retail financial services customers.

How it works

The work is curated deliberately, and it runs in both directions. Chris’s board roles give the advisory work its grounding; the advisory work keeps him close to the issues boards are grappling with now, from cyber risk and emerging technology to sustainability, regulation and changing client expectations. What is learned in one setting informs the other, always with discretion.

Engagements are taken on selectively, where there is a genuine fit and a genuine contribution to make. Farringdon Advisory takes on nothing that conflicts with Chris’s board responsibilities.

About Chris

Chris Turpin

Chris Turpin has spent more than 30 years in global financial services, most of it in asset management, including as Managing Director for Europe and the Middle East at First Sentier Group, the global asset management group owned by Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, where he also chaired its UK corporate and fund boards. He is a non-executive director of Baillie Gifford & Co Limited and Jisc.

He works most naturally where different worlds meet: finance and technology, businesses and their investors, executive leadership and the boardroom. He founded Farringdon Advisory in 2022.

Contact

Approaches are welcome and best made by email. Chris replies personally, and if an engagement isn’t the right fit he will say so and, where he can, suggest someone better placed.

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