• We Are Fairhaven Growth Partners

    We provide consulting and senior advisors to PE/VC, management teams and B2B SaaS scale-ups operating within Professional Services.

    Legal | Consulting | Technology | Wealth | Funds | Compliance

  • About

    Fairhaven Growth Partners ("FGP") is a small trusted team of seasoned leaders, senior advisers and independent directors who bring mid-market PE/VC, management teams, and B2B SaaS deep sector expertise and best practices based on decades operating within Professional Services, including legal, consulting, technology, funds and wealth management.

    Our mix of specialist services - including consulting, interim leadership, and NEDs - provides investors and scaling management teams with the high-calibre and hands-on expertise they need, whether to plug into boards, governance forums, coach leaders, or drive high-priority initiatives across expansion, transformation, digital, M&A, restructuring, risk, and innovation.

    Our approach differs from traditional consultancies as we flexibly and cost-effectively blend a mix of services with a range of commercial models, including retainers, fixed-fee, or profit-sharing - enabling clients to execute faster without the delay of traditional permanent hires or bureaucracy of larger consultancies. Often this involves us embedding one or more high-calibre leaders to work alongside clients on a fractional or project basis, bridging the gaps between strategy, investment and implementation.

    We operate from a base in Guernsey with trusted teams in Jersey, London, Munich, NY, Dubai, Hong Kong and Sydney.

  • Sectors

    We are specialists across B2B professional, technology and wealth services

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    Technology & Telecoms

    B2B IT Services

    Founder-led, investor-backed or PE-funded transforming regional players and high-growth B2B SaaS scale-ups:

    • IT Services including IT consulting, IT system integration, cybersecurity, data and analytics, cloud and infrastructure
    • IT & BPO outsourcing firms including IT managed services
    • B2B Enterprise SaaS and AI
    • Mid-market telecoms and IoT focused on B2B Enterprise sales
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    Business Services:

    Legal, Corporate, Accounting, & Consulting

    International or single market players scaling or transforming:

    • Legal including law firms and ALSPs
    • Management consulting firms
    • Accounting and tax
    • Corporate and governance services
    • Risk, fraud and regulatory compliance
    • Talent, HR and recruitment services
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    Wealth Management:

    Trust, Corporate and Fund Services

    Founder-led, investor-backed or PE-owned regional player needing market expansion and/or digital transformation support:

    • Fund services and administrators
    • Trust and fiduciary services
    • Corporate and private wealth services
    • Family offices
    • Asset and investment managers
    • Select intermediaries
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    Investment Services

    Early and later stage mid-market PE/VC specialising in Technology, Professional Services and Trust, Corporate and Fund Services requiring specialist advisory and due diligence across the investment lifecyle:

    • PE/VC portfolio companies
    • Private and corporate banking
    • Family offices
    • Investment and asset managers
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    B2B Enterprise SaaS and AI

    We support a variety of scaling B2B SaaS and AI firms within our target sectors needing expansion, GTM, scaling and fundraising support. Specific focus includes:

    • LegalTech
    • RegTech
    • FinTech
    • DealTech
    • Cybersecurity


  • Hi! I'm Andrew.

    I'm the Founder of Fairhaven Growth Partners ("FGP"). After 20+ years experience working within transforming and high-growth firms across APAC, UK, EU, US and Channel Islands in a variety of roles, I have been extremely fortunate to work with - and learn from - some of the best leaders, investors and clients in the world at the cutting-edge of technology, innovation and business growth.

    With FGP, I have tapped into this network to build our superpower - a collective of C-level trusted growth and digital transformation experts, investors and service providers - including operators, investors, deal makers, business developers, marketers, AI technologists, lawyers, NEDs and leadership coaches - who bring clients deep sector and capability expertise, entrepreneurial working, and first-hand experience (and lessons learned) of building, scaling, and exiting international businesses in our target sectors.

    In this age of increasing macro-economic uncertainty and accelerating AI, I believe that FGP's new and flexible approach provides a genuine alternative for today's modern leader and investor.

    I look forward to working with you

    -Andrew Essa, Founder and Partner | LinkedIn

  • Sample challenges we solve

    Our consulting or interim engagements focus on specific challenges to unlocking profitable

    growth and transformation, from strategy to execution. Sample areas can include the following:

    Strategic Initiatives and Programmes

    We help to solve critical business challenges and/or define, prioritize, and execute high-impact strategic initiatives that drive growth, efficiency, and transformation. From market expansion to digital enablement, we ensure strategic clarity, operational alignment, and measurable results—on time and within budget. No wasted effort, just execution that delivers.

    Due Diligence and Corporate Development

    We provide practical and rigorous data-driven due diligence - including CDD, ODD, and ITDD - expertise to help investors or clients assess market opportunities, competitive positioning, exit planning and value-creation potential pre- and post-transaction, whether fundraising, M&A, carve-out. We also have significant expertise in IT vendor DD services and sourcing across the process.

    Market Expansion and Business Development

    We help identify, validate, and lead local and international B2B expansion strategies to unlock new revenue streams and enter high-potential markets. We establish the right go-to-market plans, enhance business development effectiveness, and refine ICPs, and value propositions to drive scalable growth with minimal risk, leveraging our network to accelerate sales traction.

    Commercial and Pricing Effectiveness

    We optimise key commercial growth levers by addressing go-to-market execution, pricing strategy, client acquisition and retention, client experience, cross/up-selling, and value propositions. Using data-driven insights and KPIs, we remove growth inhibitors - which may include operating models - and improve processes to accelerate profitable, scalable revenue expansion.

    Digital, Data and AI Enablement

    We help to balance cost, value, and innovation by leveraging technology to enhance commercial performance and growth. We have expertise across all aspects of CTO and CIO advisory and modernisation, including AI readiness and implementation, IT governance and operating models, ROI analysis, IT cost optimisation and IT supplier reviews and restructuring.

    Client Service Delivery and Improvement

    We help optimise or deliver new client service delivery models and experiences to improve client experience, retention and operational efficiency, including new technologies, ways of working, service centres, off-shoring, outsourcing, process improvement, and team redesign to scale smarter while delivering exceptional client value.

  • How to hire us

    We offer numerous, flexible ways to access our expertise on a fractional, fixed-cost or bespoke basis.

    Diagnostics and Due Diligence

    Based on client needs and context, we can provide rapid, data-driven diagnostics or due diligence to assess key growth and digital transformation opportunties, maturity or risks-whether to help on investment decision-making, problem-solving or other objective

    Fractional and Interim Leaders

    We embed our high-calibre senior Growth and Transformation experts into your senior teams on a fractional basis - whether interim, part-time, or retainer - to support on critical analysis, advisory, problem-solving or programme execution needing seasoned, hands-on leadership

    Training and Upskilling

    We support your L&D programmes to equip teams with practical, high-impact training focused on growth, digital transformation and innovation topics- including B2B business development, AI innovation, entrepreneurial mindsets - and other topics on request.

    Targeted Sessions and Workshops

    We can flexibly support a range of client initiatives where our leaders can provide value-add, whether internal or client events, speaking, workshops, SteerCo attendance, client interviews or more

    NEDs and Senior Advisors

    We offer a dynamic pool of senior advisors and non-executive directors who can plug into boards, governance forums or transformation initiatives to provide independent challenge,
    oversight or subject matter expertise—across strategy, digital, M&A, risk or innovation.

  • Meet our founder

    Fairhaven Growth Partners was founded by Andrew Essa. We are a small, trusted collective backed

    by a global network of experts, investors, C-level contacts, and leading service providers

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    Based in Guernsey, Andrew is a former corporate/IT lawyer turned commercial growth, deals and digital transformation leader and strategy consultant with 20+ years experience in Technology, Telecoms, Professional Services, Legal, Corporate and Fund Services. He has held senior P&L, legal, growth, operational and interim roles driving tech-enabled transformation and transactions working for firms including BDO, Accenture, Elixirr, Vistra, PwC, Virgin Media and Vodafone.

    Growth Strategy | Digital Transformation | Technology Deals and Implementation

    — Andrew Essa, Founder | LinkedIn | www.andrewessa.com

  • Advisory board

    Our advisors bring decades of blue-chip C-level expertise and trusted

    networks to support select client opportunities and engagements

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    Based in Jersey, Marina is a C-level operations and transformation leader with 30+ years of expertise in offshore banking, funds, investments, and wealth management at firms including Vistra, Standard Bank International, State Street, and Merrill Lynch.

    Financial Services | Transformation | Governance | Offshoring | Automation

    — Marina Buckley | LinkedIn

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    Based in Guernsey, Lydia is a senior private wealth director and solicitor specialising in UHNW advisory, trusts, family offices, and estate planning with experience gained at Allen & Overy, Maurice Turnor Gardner, TrustCorp, Ocorian, and Carey Olsen LLP.

    Private Wealth | Fiduciaries | Legal | Business Development | Client Service Delivery

    — Lydia Essa | LinkedIn

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    Based in London, Anoop is a strategy and digital transformation leader with 20+ years’
    experience across Financial Services, TMT, Retail, and Consumer sectors. He has held
    senior roles at OVO, McKinsey, Kearney, HSBC, Accenture and multiple venture-backed startups, driving strategy, operations, analytics, value-creation and large-scale transformation programs.

    Financial Services | TMT | Products | Digital Transformation | Analytics | Value-Creation

    — Anoop Unadkat | LinkedIn

  • Contact

    Please get in touch below with your enquiry

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    andrew@fairhavengrowthpartners.com

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    LinkedIn

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    +44 777 0415568

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