Management Consulting Team
Our lead consultants are:
Richard Hall, Chairman and founder of Zenith International, a world leading expert on beverage markets. An experienced strategic consultant with a strong track record undertaking strategy development and global strategy reviews for multinational players. Previously retained by companies at main board level to advise on market strategy and Acquisitions. Identification of targets from market knowledge and contacts. Confidential and anonymous approaches. Expert negotiator. Application of market knowledge to acquisition rationales and modelling. Regularly chairs global industry conferences and is a respected presenter and writer of numerous industry and market studies.
Charles Phillips, Chief Operating Officer, has a distinguished career record in many of the world's leading food and drink companies including Danone, Kellogg and Unilever, based in continental Europe and North America in addition to the United Kingdom. A business graduate, Charles was Director of Acquisitions and Development for the Worldwide Water Division of Groupe Danone for 5 years up to 2003, when he moved back to England as Commercial Director for Eden Springs UK, successfully integrating the commercial operations of 14 different water cooler acquisitions. Charles also leads M&A activities at Zenith. 
Duncan Finlayson, Operations Consulting Director, with over 25 years’ project and commercial beverage experience around the world, a team leader of M&A and management consulting projects at Zenith. Brought in to restore export production at Perrier after the 1990 global recall and subsequently Director of Quality, his international expertise ranges from water quality and source development to feasibility studies, mergers and acquisitions, due diligence and crisis protection. A Chartered Engineer with a background in groundwater, has lead over 20 due diligence projects for natural mineral water businesses and conducted numerous feasibility studies for new bottled water investments.
Jason Holway, International Development Director, is a history graduate who has been with Zenith for more than a decade. He took on the newly created role of International Development Director at the beginning of 2008. With a background in research and market consulting, he is now responsible for building on existing overseas operations in Dubai, Boston and Warsaw and bringing the range of Zenith's services to a wider audience. By end 2008 Zenith intends to have set up an office in China and sealed partnerships in a number of other geographies.
Tim Chater, Commercial Consulting Director, joined Zenith in 2006 after a 15-year career with Nestlé in the UK, Australia and China, then as General Manager for Canderel UK/Ireland and more recently in a series of interim roles including General Manager - Marketing at Premier Foods. Tim's expertise is in creation and execution of plans through all types of trade channels - in business, marketing, sales and customer marketing disciplines. He has launched over 100 new products in 6 different companies. Tim's role is to assist clients with marketing, sales and new market entry strategies. He is a graduate in Geography and is currently studying for his MBA. 
Philip Coverdale, Operations Consulting Manager, with a Masters degree in Manufacturing Engineering and a career before Zenith with Accenture, Philip has a wide range of management skills. Specialising in change management, he has worked with a number of world-class clients to deliver programmes of business transformation.
Gordon Robinson, Senior Operations Consultant, holds a Masters in Mechanical Engineering with first class honours. A young management consultant, Gordon has worked on a range of management consulting projects including strategy, financial modelling, sourcing, M&A, market analysis and due diligence.Zenith's management consultancy teams are tailor made by drawing experienced market analysts and technical specialists from within the company as necessary.
Zenith can also attach individual members to client company strategy, M&A or product development teams.
Zenith can also attach individual members to client company strategy, M&A or product development teams.