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Sectors

Capital Planning & Asset Management
Digital Deployment
Energy & Utilities
Government
Healthcare
Mixed Use Developments
Private Public Partnerships
Social & Economic Infrastructure
Transport

Resoluteadvisesontheengagementsthatshape regions.Wherethecostofgettingitwrongismeasuredindecades.

Landmark engagements delivered internationally.

Every marker is a country our principals have worked in. Government mandates, public infrastructure, and capital decisions taken at national scale.

Previous engagements

In-country experiences

Senior principals

Combined principal-years

On the Record

Liveduptothename.

What clients say about the work — across sectors, geographies, and the decisions that mattered.

01 / 03

Brilliant advice from strategy all the way to operations.

I had the true pleasure of working with Resolute team on a number of internal operations projects in our firm. The team have brilliant minds, and are able quickly get to the heart of any business challenge in an attempt to solve problems and improve operations. They are analytical and fact-driven, but also sees the big picture and understands how value is realized through both a company's people and processes. They are strong communicators, team players and leaders, and seek to resolve issues in the most simple way possible. Having worked within the professional services industry for over 3 decades, and having led large global firms, I can say that Resolute offers something unique amongst management consultants, and I hope to work with them again. Talk with them to see what I mean.

Chief Growth OfficerLarge Professional Services FirmUnited States

02 / 03

A firm that lives up to its name.

We are working with Resolute team at a business critical time. We face potential growth and high client interest, and have a keen focus on improving our financial performance and cashflow in the short term as a result of volatile market conditions and an ambitious growth strategy. The team at Resolute have lived up to their name. Holding a mirror to company performance, guiding data collection, identifying risks, supporting the development of a business and operating model fit for the future, and exploring new governance options. Resolute has enabled us take tough decisions based on value.

Chief ExecutiveGlobal Not-for-Profit OrganisationUnited Kingdom

03 / 03

True advisory partners for business optimisation and turnarounds.

We partnered with the Resolute advisors to deliver a number of transformation programmes for the federal and state governments in Australia. They complemented our capability with their industry experience which made our client offering rich and reliable. One of the key aspects of transformation or optimisation programmes is the ability to find a common ground with the client teams, and Resolute managed to do this very quickly which helped us deliver the programmes successfully. They have a thorough understanding of governance and are quick to identify areas of immediate focus in turnarounds and transformations, making them ideal partners for large or small enterprise.

PartnerBig 4 Accounting FirmAustralia

01 / 03

Brilliant advice from strategy all the way to operations.

I had the true pleasure of working with Resolute team on a number of internal operations projects in our firm. The team have brilliant minds, and are able quickly get to the heart of any business challenge in an attempt to solve problems and improve operations. They are analytical and fact-driven, but also sees the big picture and understands how value is realized through both a company's people and processes. They are strong communicators, team players and leaders, and seek to resolve issues in the most simple way possible. Having worked within the professional services industry for over 3 decades, and having led large global firms, I can say that Resolute offers something unique amongst management consultants, and I hope to work with them again. Talk with them to see what I mean.

Chief Growth OfficerLarge Professional Services FirmUnited States

Fiveprincipals.The firm.

Each principal has spent thirty years inside the work; none have spent it on the side.

Founder & Managing Partner

Mehdi Danesh

“Management consulting is about facilitating simple options for leaders to make difficult decisions.”

Business executive with 26+ years of proven international track record in delivering measurable and profitable growth results through robust strategies and informed operational planning, business optimisation, digital enablement, people-centric programmes, corporate transformations and restructures, mergers and acquisitions, with extensive experience in establishment and scaling of professional service businesses, public and private ventures, family offices, partnerships, multinational corporations, government entities, PLCs, and private equity, across various industry sectors.

Partner & Managing Director, UK & Europe

Carl Chouler

“Governance done quietly costs less than governance done loudly.”

Carl has twenty years on major infrastructure programmes, with subject-matter authority on governance design, programme delivery, and the operating models that hold them together. He currently serves as Engagement Director on the Sidrat AlUla development for Al Akaria and as Projects Delivery Advisor to TRANSCO in Abu Dhabi.

His Change Control work on Crossrail was independently assessed as world-class by Lloyd's Register. He led the organisational redesign of the Saudi Binladin Group for the Lender Advisory team to secure funding, and is currently engaged as strategic advisor on a major PIF investment programme. He sits on the UK Special Interest Group on Assurance.

Head of Digital & AI Practice

Renbo Huang

“AI adoption is a change management problem before it is a technology one.”

Renbo authored the REAL AI Adoption Framework that Resolute uses with infrastructure clients. His twenty-five-year track record spans enterprise IT strategy, PMO leadership, software delivery, and systems integration across the UAE, Qatar, Canada, the US, Denmark, and Singapore.

Before Resolute, he led a $200 million IT organisation across seven countries at Maersk Oil and ran capital-planning software implementations for twelve utility and energy companies at IFS / Copperleaf, including the company's largest engagement at $8 million across the US and Canada. He holds an MBA from INSEAD.

Head of Dispute Avoidance and Resolution Practice

Dr Stuart Carmichael

“Thirty years of delay. The pattern is rarely about time.”

Stuart is a seasoned dispute resolution professional, with over thirty years of analysis across buildings, infrastructure, oil and gas, energy, manufacturing, and heavy industry. He has produced reports on extension-of-time, prolongation, concurrency, and disruption claims for international engagements.

His doctorate is in collaborative contracts and risk. He has contributed to research projects for the UK National Audit Office and the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, and lectures on project management and delivery planning. He is appointed at the ACCD, DIAC, ICC, and ACA arbitration centres.

Head of Transaction Advisory Practice

John Luckie-Downe

“Capital follows the questions, not the slides.”

John has over twenty years advising governments, sovereign investors, and infrastructure developers on acquisitions and capital structuring across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and North America. Most recently he led Commercial & Transaction Advisory for Hill International in the Middle East, and before that was Director of Finance & Investment at NEOM.

Earlier he led Corporate Development for Koch Industries' Guardian Glass, following transaction roles at EY, Gulf International Bank, and MUFG. He has advised sovereign wealth funds and central banks on due diligence, restructuring, and M&A. He holds an MBA from London Business School and a BA (Hons) in Arabic from SOAS.

Onemission.Sixdomains.

We create, enhance, and protect enterprise value across six interconnected domains, each of which is led by a seasoned principal.

Business Strategy & Growth

Strategy that doesn't survive the first board meeting isn't strategy. We build growth plans grounded in real market dynamics and real operating constraints — and we stay until the plan is embedded across markets, people, and processes. The work is judged by what gets done, not what got presented.

Lead principalMehdi Danesh

Our approach · 4 stages

StakeholdersMap the people the strategy needs to land with.

Markets & CustomersPressure-test the demand-side reading.

People & ProcessesResolve the operating-model constraints first.

Growth PlanSequence the moves so execution is achievable.

Create · Enhance · Protect

Create

We start by getting honest about the market, the operating model, and what the leadership team actually has bandwidth for.

Enhance

We sequence growth across markets, customers, and capital so the organisation isn't asked to do everything at once.

Protect

We hand the strategy to the people running it. If they can't operationalise it, we haven't finished.

Within this domain

Growth strategy
Operating-model design
Market-entry advisory
Performance management

Featured Framework

Authored by

Renbo HuangHead of Digital & AI Practice

PracticalAI,builtforcritical infrastructure.

Most AI frameworks are written for tech companies and retro-fitted to everything else. REAL is built the other way around: a four-stage adoption model purpose-built for infrastructure operators, utilities, and capital programme owners — where the failure mode is not a missed conversion but a national-scale asset.

Read the framework Discuss adoption

Recommend

Targeted adoption. Identify the use cases that earn their cost and start there.

Evaluate

Test what works before scaling it. Returns are measured in operations, not slides.

Adapt

Re-engineer the processes so the AI lives in the operation, not next to it.

Learn

Teach the workforce the difference between a use case and a feature.

Contact

Talkto us.

services@resolute-mc.com

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PO Box 393490

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