01 — About Halberd
Halberd is an independent advisory firm to executive teams. We were founded on a simple conviction: that strategy is the product of discipline, not deck-count — and that the firm writing the memo should be prepared to help run it.
02 — Our Mission
Executive teams are asked to make fewer decisions of greater consequence than ever before. Our mandate is to shorten the time between a hard question and a defensible answer — without shortening the distance between principal and client.
03 — The Firm in Numbers
Founded in London, operating since
Partners and senior principals worldwide
Offices across four time zones
Industry sectors served end-to-end
04 — A Brief History
Halberd opened with four partners and a single mandate. We have grown on the pace that our retention rate allows — and no faster.
2003 · Founding
Halberd opens on Fenchurch Street with four partners from tier-one houses and a charter to advise without selling delivery.
2009 · First international office
Park Avenue opens after three consecutive years of North American mandates — staffed exclusively by partners relocating from London.
2015 · Digital practice
We formalize a digital transformation practice after leading two core banking replatforms. Hired from industry, not from systems integrators.
2020 · ESG advisory
A dedicated ESG and transition-risk practice launches in Frankfurt, serving boards ahead of the CSRD regulatory cycle.
2024 · AI enablement
AI enablement is added as a cross-practice capability — advising on use-case selection, vendor posture, and governance for the board agenda.
05 — Leadership
Every engagement is led by a partner with at least two decades of operating and advisory experience — and delivered by the same small team from brief to handover.
Edward Larkin
Founded Halberd in 2003 after fifteen years leading corporate strategy at a FTSE 100 industrial group. Chairs the Investment and Governance Committee.
Priya Bhattacharya
Joined from a global automotive group where she ran European manufacturing. Leads our operations and supply-chain mandates across industrial, consumer, and healthcare.
Hendrik van der Meer
Former Chief Digital Officer at a pan-European bank. Leads digital and AI enablement work, with a practice rule of never recommending a platform the team has not run.
Dr. Clara Osei
Organizational psychologist and former HR leader at a FTSE 250. Leads leadership design, succession planning, and change programs across the firm's mandates.
06 — How We Work
We don't publish a values deck; we publish a way of working. Every partner is asked to apply it to every engagement — and measured against it at year-end.
Independence
No audit arm, no systems integrator to feed. We take a view on the right course of action, not on what is most billable.
Rigor without theatre
Analytical rigor is non-negotiable; slide count is optional. Twenty pages of defensible argument beats two hundred of decoration.
Plain language
If a recommendation cannot be explained to the sponsor in one paragraph, it is not yet a recommendation. We rewrite until it is.
Implementation loyalty
The team that writes the memo is the team that runs the first six months of execution. Advice and accountability are not separable.
07 — Where We Work
Each office is partner-led and staffed locally. Cross-border mandates are run by a single principal across time zones — never handed off.
London
12 Fenchurch Street, EC3M 6BQ. The founding office — home to European strategy and the Governance Committee.
New York
540 Park Avenue, NY 10065. Our North American practice, opened 2009 — financial services, industrial, and healthcare.
Frankfurt
Opernplatz 2, 60313. The continental European base — industrial, automotive, and ESG advisory for DACH and Benelux.
Singapore
Marina Bay Financial Centre, Tower 3. Our APAC office, opened 2018 — financial services, technology, and family-enterprise advisory.
08 — Recognized by
- NORTHWIND
- ATLAS & CO
- MERIDIAN
- HALEBROOK
- VANTAGE
- KOMOREBI
- ARCHIVE 9
- PAPER TIGER
09 — Start the Conversation
Sixty minutes with a principal. No deck, no proposal loop — a direct conversation about the question you are carrying, and whether we are the right firm to carry it with you.