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Our Firm
Consello is an Integrated Advisory and Investing Platform
As former operators and senior executives of some of the world’s top companies, we’ve led through constant disruption, accelerated transformational growth, and positioned businesses for what’s now and what’s next, including the seismic shifts driven by AI.
That lived experience is foundational to everything we do.
Advisory
Through our Advisory business we counsel the world's most senior business leaders on the most critical issues that impact their businesses, integrating multiple sources of expertise to drive holistic and tangible results.
C-Suite Advisory
Management Consulting
Marketing & Creative Services Advisory
AI & Tech Strategic Consulting
Sports & Entertainment Advisory
Investment Banking & M&A Advisory
Shareholder Value Creation
Complex Transformations
Activist Defense & Corporate Governance
Risk
Executive Search, Organizational Design & Effectiveness, Leadership Development
Investment
Our Investment business partners with high-potential mid-market companies, deploying capital and operational expertise across the business lifecycle to drive transformative growth and deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns.
Control Buyouts
Equity Recapitalizations
Growth Equity
Minority Investments
Our Firm
Consello is an Integrated Advisory and Investing Platform
As former operators and senior executives of some of the world’s top companies, we’ve led through constant disruption, accelerated transformational growth, and positioned businesses for what’s now and what’s next, including the seismic shifts driven by AI.
That lived experience is foundational to everything we do.
Advisory
Through our Advisory business we counsel the world's most senior business leaders on the most critical issues that impact their businesses, integrating multiple sources of expertise to drive holistic and tangible results.
C-Suite Advisory
Management Consulting
Marketing & Creative Services Advisory
AI & Tech Strategic Consulting
Sports & Entertainment Advisory
Investment Banking & M&A Advisory
Shareholder Value Creation
Complex Transformations
Activist Defense & Corporate Governance
Risk
Executive Search, Organizational Design & Effectiveness, Leadership Development
Investment
Our Investment business partners with high-potential mid-market companies, deploying capital and operational expertise across the business lifecycle to drive transformative growth and deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns.
Control Buyouts
Equity Recapitalizations
Growth Equity
Minority Investments
Grey Matter: Inside the Minds of the People Who Move the World
Sarah Friar: Chief Financial Officer, OpenAI
What is Experience Worth in the Age of AI?
Every CEO is being asked to make decisions about AI before there is a reliable playbook for what comes next.
Where to invest. How to create business value. Which risks to take. What to automate. And what should remain fundamentally human.
That makes experience a more complicated asset. The past may offer fewer obvious answers, but the judgment built through years of operating across different environments may become even more valuable.
Few executives embody that challenge better than Sarah Friar, CFO of OpenAI.
Her career has taken her from metallurgy and mining in Ghana to Goldman Sachs, Salesforce, Block, Nextdoor and now OpenAI. She describes it as a series of “zigs and zags,” but each move gave her another reference point for navigating unfamiliar problems.
Today, she is applying that experience inside a company whose economics and capabilities are evolving in real time, while businesses everywhere are being forced to rethink software, talent, cybersecurity and the architecture of work.
In this episode of Grey Matter, Sarah joins Consello Founder, Chairman and CEO Declan Kelly to discuss how leaders make decisions when precedent becomes less reliable, how AI is already creating real business value, and why the ability to distinguish what should change from what should endure may become one of the most important advantages experience can provide.
Why Consello
Operational Excellence
We’re not career consultants, we’re world-class operators. With over 150 years of C-Suite experience across industries and continents, we know what it takes to build durable businesses. That depth of operational expertise has armed us with hard-earned insights, proven approaches, and a clear perspective on how to win.
Vision First. Outcomes Always.
We deliver outcomes, not just strategy decks. We start with clarity—on priorities, direction and results—then work shoulder-to-shoulder with leadership to align teams, accelerate decisions and ensure every move drives lasting business impact.
Unparalleled Connectivity
We bring the full weight of our global network to bear in service of our clients’ ambitions. From CEOs to heads of state to professional athletes and cultural icons, our deep relationships across industries cultivate opportunities that create measurable business outcomes.
Leaders
Our Leaders Have Built,
Transformed, and Led Some of
the World's Top Companies
Our team of operators have scaled category-defining companies, reshaped industries, and created billions in enterprise value. Collectively, we've:
- Transformed industries across sectors and geographies
- Executed hundreds of M&A transactions
- Founded and scaled market-disrupting ventures
- Built technologies that have shaped global culture
- Navigated crises, volatility and systemic disruption
- Set records and left lasting legacies
