Current Future launches 'unique consulting model' for scaleups
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The news: Sydney-based collective Current Future has launched today, offering a "unique consulting model" which gives private capital and CEOs of high growth scale-ups in Australia access to experienced C-level executives across a range of disciplines.
The context: Current Future's model provides businesses with a small team of executives, who are embedded in the client company on a specific project, with the aim of making themselves “redundant” after the agreed term.
Current Future’s executives are tasked with diagnosing and unpacking challenges during “exceptional periods of change”, such as pre- and post-M&A and capital raises, launching new products, and entering new markets. They then work cross-functionally to put the right team in place for the next phase of growth, and continue to provide long-term oversight.
The executives include former Guzman y Gomez chief technology officer Steve Orleow, former chief executive of ASX-listed Cleanspace Technology Alex Birrell, and former vice president of customer growth at Chris Hemsworth’s fitness app Centr, Kate Parker.
The group also includes Talent International’s former global chief digital officer Gert Leppers, Vitruvian’s former chief marketing officer Karen Dwyer, and former executive head of marketing and commercial at Telstra’s enterprise business Karrie-Anne Turner.
The collective said it is already working with several private equity, venture capital and family office investors as well as their portfolio businesses. It is targeting the more than 6,000 SMEs in Australia and New Zealand that reach the “growth phase” each year.
What they said: “We went through a whole series of discussions with founders, investors, their advisors, CEOs,” Current Future’s founder and CEO Cameron Honey told Capital Brief.
“And they keep on saying ‘I wish we could get access to that top level talent but we just can't afford it’ and 'we have been working with some consultants but we keep getting reports and no action’.
“... In terms of the model, I wanted to almost be anti-consultant. It's about bringing hard-nosed operators who have been there and done it before, and then can really get their hands dirty on particular pieces of work.”
The source: Current Future
