Dr Chris Floyd

Strategic consultancy and corporate governance advice to engineering and industrial products companies, teaches strategy and corporate governance
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Liz Floyd

Registered midwife with considerable experience as a clinician, manager, lecturer and researcher.
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We offer advisory, consultancy and training services to business and government, drawing on our extensive practical and academic experience.  We work across a wide range of industries and market sectors, concentrating on those areas where one of us has relevant domain experience or functional knowledge; Chris focuses on helping engineering and industrial products companies to grow, advising on strategy, international expansion, acquisition and product development, and providing mentoring on corporate governance.

Liz focuses on providing training and mentoring to healthcare workers in Africa, working with NGOs there to help them to be more effective.

We are also both directors of Karoo Ridge Conservancy, a game conservancy in South Africa.

Our primary geographic focus is the UK, but we operate world-wide. We are currently active in the UK, across Europe and in sub-saharan Africa.  We have also worked in North and South America, India, China, Japan and across the Far East.

Our work includes:

  • Advising organisations on strategic issues either through the provision of consultancy services or by supplying the services of a non-executive director
  • Advising on specific short term projects as a consultant
  • Acting as an independent challenge in strategy reviews
  • Developing and delivering training courses & programmes
  • Providing mentoring to senior staff

We focus on a select range of markets including:

  • High value manufacturing and industrial products
  • Oil and gas equipment
  • Power generation equipment
  • Consumer products
  • Healthcare services
Chris is Chairman of 42 Technology, a technology and product development consultancy based in St. Ives, near Cambridge.
Chris is a non-executive director of ComAp a.s. , a Czech based global company that designs and supplies a range of electronic controllers for generating sets and other engine driven equipment.
Chris is a non-executive director of British Engines Ltd., a UK engineering company supplying a range of high integrity components to global industrial markets
Chris is Chairman of Stephenson Gobin, a British Engines company manufacturing specialist electromagnetic brakes for precision machinery applications.