NorthCo is a senior advisory firm. We work with private equity and lender-backed mid-market businesses through periods of leadership transition, executive change, and operational pressure.
Our work runs across four pathways: interim C-suite, executive coach/mentor, confidential executive search, and operational support.
Our clients include private equity portfolio teams and lender teams, the boards that govern the businesses, chief executives and their management teams, and the senior HR teams supporting them.
Our work translates. We are fluent in operations, in strategy, and in governance, and we move between them. The translation matters most when a strategy sound on paper is not landing in the business, when the board and the executive team are looking at the same situation and seeing different things, or when the right people are not yet in the right places for the work to land.
We also work directly with senior interims who are on assignment. The pattern is recognisable across most interim engagements: the interim has the experience to deliver but rarely the time, and the host business often does not have the right resource sitting alongside them. We provide that resource, in recruitment, restructuring, and operational right-sizing, contracted by the host business and delivered at assignment pace.
NorthCo brings deep, lived experience of one specific world. Private equity and lender-backed mid-market businesses, in growth, in stress, and in distress. We have coached chief executives, recruited C-suite teams, and diagnosed live operational situations across technology, energy, alt-net, consumer goods, automotive, and health, in dozens of those businesses over many years. Every business, every sector, and every situation is different. The underlying patterns repeat. Knowing those patterns, and recognising them quickly, is what allows us to be useful when others are still orienting.
Trevor founded NorthCo after twenty-five years in operational leadership, including building a business from £5m to £150m as its chief executive. The work he does today reflects the work he wishes had been available to him then: senior peer counsel, given honestly, with no other agenda to advance.
He works directly with portfolio managers, chairs, and chief executives on the engagements that matter most to them, and over time has built NorthCo to deliver the wider work of the firm.
Alongside leading NorthCo, Trevor holds a portfolio of senior appointments: Chair and non-executive director roles in mid-market businesses, interim CEO assignments, and Chief Restructuring Officer engagements. He also coaches a selected number of executives directly.
The work he has led personally includes turnarounds, divestments, fundraising, and soft landings, alongside the growth journey from £5m to £150m as a chief executive.
Specific company names, sectors, and engagement scope are available in the context of an introduction.
A confidential conversation is always open. A professional profile is available on request.
Our work translates. We are fluent in operations, in strategy, and in governance, and we move between them. The translation matters most when a strategy is not landing, when the board and the executive team are seeing the same situation differently, or when the right people are not yet in the right places.
We also work directly with senior interims on assignment, providing recruitment, restructuring, and operational right-sizing support.
NorthCo brings deep, lived experience of one specific world. Private equity and lender-backed mid-market businesses, in growth, in stress, and in distress. Across technology, energy, alt-net, consumer goods, automotive, and health. The underlying patterns repeat. Knowing them is what allows us to be useful when others are still orienting.
Trevor founded NorthCo after twenty-five years in operational leadership, including building a business from £5m to £150m as its chief executive. The work he does today reflects the work he wishes had been available to him then: senior peer counsel, given honestly, with no other agenda to advance.
Alongside leading NorthCo, Trevor holds Chair and non-executive director appointments, interim CEO assignments, and Chief Restructuring Officer engagements, and coaches a selected number of executives directly.
A confidential conversation is always open. A professional profile is available on request.
