Gillian Karran-Cumberlege

FOUNDING PARTNER

Gillian Karran-Cumberlege leads Fidelio Partners Board Practice. Through Search and Development, Gillian supports Chairmen and CEOs in building effective Boards and Executive leadership teams which drive value for stakeholders and shareholders. In this context Gillian is actively engaged, including with the 30% Club, in promoting greater Board effectiveness through increased diversity. Fidelio is a signatory to the Voluntary Code of Conduct for Executive Search firms. Gillian is also a member of the German- British Chamber of Industry and Commerce and a fluent German speaker.

In addition to her executive role with Fidelio, Gillian is a Board Member of the German British Forum. Previously Gillian served as an Independent Board Member of Jaguar Land Rover India and a Member of the Harvard Business School Alumni Board (2015-2018).

Prior to founding Fidelio Gillian held senior executive roles within some of Europe’s leading corporates; this included the role of Global Head of Investor Relations / Capital Market Communications for Volkswagen AG (2000 – 2007) sitting on the Group Governance and Marketing Committees – the most senior female executive globally. Previously Gillian had enjoyed a highly successful career in banking for example heading Group Investor Relations for UBS (1998- 2000). She started her career in Banking Supervision with the Bank of England.

Gillian has an MA in History from Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and attended the Harvard General Management Programme.

Mark Cumberlege

FOUNDING PARTNER

Mark Cumberlege is a Partner with Fidelio Partners. Mark brings to Search a deep understanding of the value of process and sets up Fidelio’s searches to succeed with robust project management. Mark works with clients across a range of sectors and executive roles.

Prior to Fidelio, Mark spent five years in senior management roles within Executive Search working with clients across multiple sectors and geographies. As a management consultant from 1995 to 2005 Mark focused on delivering growth and performance management solutions initially with Bridgewater, a Bain spin-off, and latterly focussing on operational strategy and change management. Mark’s clients were primarily multinational organisations.

Mark also has managing director experience of companies in the consulting, media and manufacturing sectors and has led start ups, turnarounds, acquisitions and disposals. The common theme of Mark’s professional career is a passionate interest in how individuals shape high performing businesses. Mark completed his studies in agriculture and has maintained an ongoing interest in agribusiness.

Danielle Neben

SENIOR CONSULTANT

Danielle Neben has a 23-year international career in financial services and works closely with Fidelio on promoting excellence in shareholder engagement and IR at Board and Executive level.

Danielle is also a Member of the Board at FKA (the Association of Women Business Leaders in Iceland), a Member of the Board of the Investor Relations Society of Iceland and an independent consultant.

Danielle is a former Member of the Board of Directors at Landsbankinn, a leading Icelandic financial institution, where she chaired the Strategic Development Committee and was a member of the Audit Committee. Before joining Landsbankinn, Danielle worked at HSBC from 1993 to 2013, including 16 years in their International Management programme in four continents.

Some key roles were Member of the Management Board at HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt (Intl.) SA in Luxembourg as Chief Operating Officer and Investor Relations Officer in London during the Financial Crisis up to the £12 billion rights issue.

Danielle holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree with a major in Finance and a minor in German from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She is native in English and French, advanced in Icelandic and Brazilian Portuguese, intermediate in German, and basic in Mandarin and Spanish.

Bob Garratt

SENIOR CONSULTANT

Bob Garratt is a Senior Consultant with Fidelio Partners and a member of Fidelio’s Board Development practice team. He is a company director, consultant, and academic and works in the fields of corporate governance; board and director evaluation and performance, large-scale organisational change and strategic thinking.

His consulting experience of board development, review and business issues is wide ranging and clients comprise large corporates, family businesses, state-owned enterprises, professional practices, not-for-profit and international organisations central and local governments. He has been an expert on the project for the reconsideration of the governance of the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC and lectured in corporate governance for the governments of Australia, India and South Africa.

Bob is a Visiting Professor at Cass Business School, City University, London; and the Chairman of the Centre for Corporate Governance in Africa at the University of Stellenbosch. Bob was previously on the faculty of the Judge Institute at the University of Cambridge and a Visiting Professor at Imperial College, London. He is the Past Master of The Worshipful Company of Management Consultants, London and a Freeman of the City of London. He has written extensively on board development and books include what has become a key text on governance “The Fish Rots from the Head” as well as “The Twelve Organisational Capabilities: Valuing People at Work” and “Thin On Top: Why Corporate Governance Matters”.

Stephen Cheetham

SENIOR CONSULTANT

Stephen Cheetham is a Senior Consultant with Fidelio.   Stephen has worked on both sides of the investment management business as a senior Portfolio Manager and Head of European Governance at AllianceBernstein, and as a research analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein covering the European automotive industry.

He held a number of financial management positions in the Ford Motor Company and has significant international experience in operational management consulting in manufacturing business.

Stephen is an active investor and director with a focus on technology and manufacturing companies in association with the University of Warwick Minerva network.

He holds an MA in German and French from the University of Cambridge and an MBA from the London Business School.

Rod Chamberlain

CONSULTANT

Rod is a Consultant with Fidelio Partners and a member of Fidelio’s Executive Search and Board Development teams. Rod is an experienced executive mentor and career guidance consultant.

Rod’s earlier executive career was as an international banker. He has held Executive Committee or local Board roles in investment, corporate and retail banks and securities firms owned by shareholder organisations of 11 different nationalities. His Board experience spans 30 years and five countries, with advisory and non-executive roles in the commercial, not-for-profit and voluntary sectors and includes chairing four Audit Committees. He has served on the Executive Committee and Boards of one statutory and two self-regulatory bodies in the financial services sector.

Rod holds an MBA with Distinction from INSEAD and an MA in Economics from Cambridge University. More recently he acquired a Certificate in Occupational Testing from the British Psychological Society and passed the Islamic Finance Qualification.

He has lived, to work or study, in Germany, France, Australia and on both coasts of the USA. He is fluent in German and French, with smatterings of other languages.