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Accelerating the Enterprise Value of distinctive Retail Brands
Partnerships & Clients
Cross Functional Capabilities
In combination, HMJ successfully brings together a spectrum of experience and skill sets that enables Brands to effectively address the strategic and operational cross functional interdependencies critical to enabling the accelerated growth of Enterprise Value
Client Relationships
Brand Creation:
Opportunity identification and selection, Strategic, Operational, Commercial guidance, Growth Capital solutions
Investor and Advisor for business growth strategy focusing on Hybrid retail proposition. Providing commercial business planning to access growth Capital
Provider of Growth Capital & Investors to patented cashmere luxury brand. Strategic and Commerical lead advisory
Advisory role for business growth strategy focusing on D2C offer. Provided commercial business planning to access growth Capital
C-Suite support functions on Hybrid retail proposition. Providing commercial business planning to access growth Capital
Brand Acceleration:
Strategic, Operational, Commercial transformation, Growth Capital solutions
Provider of Growth Capital & Investor to the Worlds Fastest Learning Fashion AI. Lead advisor and operations implementation on commercial growth strategy
Strategic & Operational Lead advisor on acceleration of Intl. business transformation – UK/EU, GCC & Asia
Lead advisor on strategic transformation from ‘third party supplier’ to D2C Brand. Providing access to growth Capital
Consulting on the award winning 5,000m2 flagship store redevelopment (Oct 2021). Consulting on Digital transformation program.
Brand Acquisition:
Target identification, evaluation, through to deal completion
Retain Brand acquisition,
master licensing and retail operations
across EMEA, and South East Asia.
Provider of Growth Capital & Investor. Lead advisor on commercial growth strategy for November 2021 launch as D2C brand.
Brand acquisitions strategy function
Practitioner Management
An executive team of experienced, successful, international, hybrid retail practitioners focused on the challenge of realising the untapped commercial potential of transforming ‘good’ into ‘excellent’
Henrik Madsen,
Founder (CEO)
Business leadership, transformation vision, commercial strategy execution
25 years of leading and transforming international Retail Brands.
Henrik has held many senior executive positions at luxury and premium multichannel brands such as Miu Miu, Anne Klein New York, French Connection, Kenneth Cole.
Most recently fulfilling various Regional CEO and Managing Director roles with the McArthurGlen Group, across Europe, playing an integral role in transforming the groups asset value from £1.5 billion to, at its peak, over £6.5 billion.
Skilled in managing the ambitions of investors alongside Brand partners, Henrik understands the tensions between strategic investment and value extraction.
Henrik currently holds a number of executive board positions within international retail businesses in addition to being a Patron at the British Fashion Council
Marcus Willox,
Partner (CBO)
25 years experience scaling both established and disrupter retail Brands
As an international communications agency CEO and strategy director Marcus has led the distillation, articulation and transforming O2O execution of retail Brand propositions within sector leading businesses such as Tesco, McArthuGlen, Diageo alongside sector disrupters and challengers such as O2, Hotter, Grandi Stazione.
Marcus believes in sharp, distinctive retail propositions driven by compelling behavioral insights resulting in powerful commercial creativity.
After selling the integrated retail agency he founded, WARL, to international agency group VCCP, Marcus now holds a number of executive positions in communication agencies based in Milan, Barcelona and London
Scott Cunningham,
Partner (CSO)
25 years as an international IT entrepreneur specialising in management information, business systems and operations
After starting his career at Arthur Anderson Scott served as Head of Global Operations, Business Systems and IT at U-POL after a successful MBO where he established subsidiary operations in US, Russia and South Africa.
Amongst many other senior roles that followed, Scott partnered with Henrik at Anne Klein to build, from scratch, and implement a fully integrated front and back end business system for the European operation.
Most recently Scott has fulfilled the role of Managing Director of Transition at Valspar’s (now Sherman Williams) acquisition of Quest Automotive; where he transformed the UK operation, transferring manufacturing to the Netherlands, consolidating 3 sites into a single business unit and contributing to doubling the Company’s EBITDA percentage in less than 1 year.
Scott is a systems creative problem solver focused on enabling cross functional teams to deliver business visions and results
Deborah Gargiulo,
Operating Partner (CFO)
20 years successfully driving international retail business growth
After starting her career with Deloitte & Touché, Deborah has held senior financial positions across the full spectrum of retail including; JNY, Anne Klein (VP Finance), Club Monaco (CFO), Guess?. Inc (VP Finance Worldwide), Worth New York (CAO), Trish McEvoy (CFO)
Deborah believes in setting commercial ambitions high. Ambitions that demand ‘best in Class’ operational improvements alongside realistic funding requirements.
Eva Gomes
Operating Finance Director
15 years in Senior Finance and Operational roles, which include 5-years’ as the Chief Operating Officer at Studio Nicholson and a 3-year tenure with Christopher Kane as Head of Finance.
Eva loves getting involved in Operational and Strategic Finance roles, she has incredible strong skills in the business operation, such as Sourcing, Logistics and Commercial Management.
Eva is also supporting Saul Nash, Nicholas Daley and BYFAR, etc. Eva is a serial specialist in Start-Up finance plan building, superior in business plan model development and love the operational day to day financial management support roles.
Practitioner Community
A wonderfully diverse team of successful, international retail specialists who bring rich, innovative, and challenging thinking and execution to HMJ Enterprise Value Growth Plans
Karen Brennan
Product Design
and Curation
Maia Le May
Merchant and
Sustainability
Lena Pratt (Ngu)
Global Licensing
and Operations
James Chua
Commerical Director
GCC & ASEAN
Matt Burke
Comsumer Insight
and Analytics
Irene Maquire
Retail Brand Environments
Stephen Kane
Retail Property
Management
Anita Bolger
Brand Creation and Curation
Sonia Prais
People and Culture
Patrizia Pinato
Real Estate & Placemaking Specialist
