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Where Strategy Meets 
Real Asset Investment

Here at Newton Wright Advisors, we help businesses understand and navigate their strategic map, with a focus on combining expertise in strategy and real asset investment. We support and advise our clients to help them create sustainable responses to various challenges and opportunities, whether they be a small start-up or a large established business.
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Areas of Expertise

Newton Wright Advisors provides strategic advisory services to business owners and senior leaders across four key areas:
  • Traditional strategic analysis and formulation
    • Strategic assessment
    • Strategic reviews
    • Strategy formulation
    • Business planning
    • New market entry strategy
  • Strategy implementation, business model transformation and growth strategies
    • Turning business plans into executable implementation 
    • Business model redesign
    • Proposition development
    • Capability assessment and development
    • Organisational design
    • Performance measurement
  • Turning strategic insights into investment opportunities in real estate and infrastructure
    • Identify opportunities in investable universe
    • Design investment strategy and develop investment proposition
    • Set up/adapt investment governance and risk management frameworks, including considerations for sustainability and ESG
    • Put in place appropriate resources
    • Where necessary, support capital raising process
  • Strategic cost management and procurement
    • Help leadership teams in taking a strategic view of costs
    • Unlock potential financial resources, currently hidden in unnecessary costs, to enable other strategic initiatives
    • Support with procurement (complement existing procurement resource or full outsourced model)
    • Affiliate relationship with Auditel, whereby we can lead cost management and procurement projects, with the support of over 100 procurement specialists across all cost categories. For more details, see www.auditel.co.uk
David is a strategic advisor with a particular focus on investment management of real assets (real estate and infrastructure), business growth, business model and organisational design, transformational change and post-acquisition integration. He has extensive experience advising established corporate entities, start-ups and businesses that are ready to scale up. 

David is currently working with CREFC Europe, the trade association for the commercial real estate (CRE) finance industry in Europe, on industry-wide initiatives; he is Senior Advisor with Auditel, a Strategic Cost Management Specialist; Chair of the Board of Advisors of Berkeley Capital Group, a hotel developer; and a member of the Board of Advisors for GRIDSERVE, a sustainable energy solutions business. 

His experience spans over 24 years in financial services. Earlier in his career, he held a variety of strategy roles, in which David worked with global boards and executive teams on a broad range of organisational challenges. Most recently, David was Managing Director of Aviva Investors’ activities in infrastructure and structured finance assets, as well as co-head of Alternative Income Solutions.

Previously on the Aviva Investors Real Estate Executive Committee, David held a range of responsibilities during his tenure; he led strategic and corporate development, created and grew a number of new businesses and has led real-asset based income strategies, including private equity, listed real estate securities, infrastructure and structured finance investment businesses and teams. 
While leading the Aviva Investors’ infrastructure business, David was an advocate of sustainability matters; he co-chaired a global investor-led initiative to introduce sustainability benchmarking for infrastructure investments. David has also held a number of non-Executive directorships. 

David has studied and worked in France, the US and the UK. He holds a BA in Political Economy of Industrial Societies from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as an MBA from the Cambridge Judge Business School. He is also a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. 

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Cases & Research

Newton Wright Advisors provides strategic advisory services to business owners and senior leaders across four key areas:
  • Business Model Transformation of Major Real Estate Fund Manager

    Post GFC of 2008, David worked with the CEO and Executive Team of a major UK-based real estate investment management business to redesign the business model and the entire organisation. David helped management achieve substantial cost savings and created the opportunity for scalable growth.  David led and delivered the transformation programme across the whole business with international operations and 150 employees. The programme included a redefinition of governance structures, systems, processes, policies and roles and responsibilities across all role families, as well as the cultural change needed to embed the new model.

  • Setting up and Scaling up of European Infrastructure Investment Business

    David helped a large fund manager create and grow a successful infrastructure business. In four years, the business scaled up from zero to £2.5bn of AUM, 30 employees and a strong pipeline of new capital and investments. David achieved this by formulating business and investment strategies that maximised market opportunities, executing the implementation plans rigorously, designing and developing the core operations (teams, processes and governance) as well as building infrastructure-specific operating support within the larger fund management business.

  • Expansion Strategy in Hospitality Sector

    We advised the founders of a hospitality business focused on building retirement communities on their growth strategy, the development of a business model and governance for a larger group, and business planning incorporating an expansion of operations, acquisition of assets as well as development of resorts.

  • Tokenising and Digital Ownership of Real Estate

    We advised the founders of a start-up aiming to make institutional real estate investment accessible to smaller investors through adoption of new technologies. We helped management with the formulation of the investment strategy, the design of governance, the set-up of the vehicle and development of the proposition.

  • New Fund investing in UK Healthcare

    We advised the GP of a new fund investing in the UK Care Home sector, by identifying the market opportunities in the sector, developing the investment strategy and proposition for overseas institutional investors, designing the investment governance and helping with the set-up of vehicles and agreements with operating partners. We also assisted with sourcing potential partners, pipeline of transactions and outlining the proposition to potential investors.

  • Preparing Renewable Energy Start-up for Capital Raising

    We advised the founders of a start-up focusing on renewable energy solutions. Specifically, we helped the management with business model, long term strategic positioning, organisational design, capital/financial planning and governance, as preparation for capital raising.

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For more information on our strategic advisory services, or to discuss working together, please contact us today – we look forward to hearing from you.

david.dahan@newtonwrightadvisors.com