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Our Firm
Consello is an Integrated Advisory and Investing Platform
As former operators and senior executives of some of the world’s top companies, we’ve led through constant disruption, accelerated transformational growth, and positioned businesses for what’s now and what’s next, including the seismic shifts driven by AI.
That lived experience is foundational to everything we do.
Advisory
Through our Advisory business we counsel the world’s most senior business leaders on the most critical issues that impact their businesses, integrating multiple sources of expertise to drive holistic and tangible results.
C-Suite Advisory
Management Consulting
Marketing & Creative Services Advisory
AI & Tech Strategic Consulting
Sports & Entertainment Advisory
Investment Banking & M&A Advisory
Shareholder Value Creation
Complex Transformations
Activist Defense & Corporate Governance
Risk
Executive Search, Organizational Design & Effectiveness, Leadership Development
Investment
Our Investment business partners with high-potential mid-market companies, deploying capital and operational expertise across the business lifecycle to drive transformative growth and deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns.
Control Buyouts
Equity Recapitalizations
Growth Equity
Minority Investments
Our Firm
Consello is an Integrated Advisory and Investing Platform
As former operators and senior executives of some of the world’s top companies, we’ve led through constant disruption, accelerated transformational growth, and positioned businesses for what’s now and what’s next, including the seismic shifts driven by AI.
That lived experience is foundational to everything we do.
Advisory
Through our Advisory business we counsel the world’s most senior business leaders on the most critical issues that impact their businesses, integrating multiple sources of expertise to drive holistic and tangible results.
C-Suite Advisory
Management Consulting
Marketing & Creative Services Advisory
AI & Tech Strategic Consulting
Sports & Entertainment Advisory
Investment Banking & M&A Advisory
Shareholder Value Creation
Complex Transformations
Activist Defense & Corporate Governance
Risk
Executive Search, Organizational Design & Effectiveness, Leadership Development
Investment
Our Investment business partners with high-potential mid-market companies, deploying capital and operational expertise across the business lifecycle to drive transformative growth and deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns.
Control Buyouts
Equity Recapitalizations
Growth Equity
Minority Investments
Grey Matter: Inside the Minds of the People Who Move the World
Tony James: Chairman of the Board, Costco Wholesale
From Signal to Scale: The Foresight that Shaped Modern Finance
Tony James has spent over four decades seeing what was coming next and acting on it long before anyone else.
He built DLJ from a mid-sized brokerage into one of the most influential platforms on Wall Street by creating the leveraged buyout and private capital businesses that became the model the rest of the industry eventually adopted. He joined Blackstone as COO and constructed an entirely new set of investment businesses, helping transform the private equity firm into the world’s largest alternative asset manager. At Costco, he has spent four decades helping build and safeguard a company around a single principle — always do what is right for members, and the shareholders will take care of themselves.
Every one of those calls looked unconventional at the time. None of them do now.
In this episode of Grey Matter, Tony James sits down with Consello Founder, Chairman and CEO Declan Kelly to discuss the instincts behind those moments, the decisions that defined it, and what a career built at that scale ultimately teaches about judgment, patience, and knowing what to do next.
Why Consello
Operational Excellence
We’re not career consultants, we’re world-class operators. With over 150 years of C-Suite experience across industries and continents, we know what it takes to build durable businesses. That depth of operational expertise has armed us with hard-earned insights, proven approaches, and a clear perspective on how to win.
Vision First. Outcomes Always.
We deliver outcomes, not just strategy decks. We start with clarity—on priorities, direction and results—then work shoulder-to-shoulder with leadership to align teams, accelerate decisions and ensure every move drives lasting business impact.
Unparalleled Connectivity
We bring the full weight of our global network to bear in service of our clients’ ambitions. From CEOs to heads of state to professional athletes and cultural icons, our deep relationships across industries cultivate opportunities that create measurable business outcomes.
Leaders
Our Leaders Have Built,
Transformed, and Led Some of
the World’s Top Companies
Our team of operators have scaled category-defining companies, reshaped industries, and created billions in enterprise value. Collectively, we’ve:
- Transformed industries across sectors and geographies
- Executed hundreds of M&A transactions
- Founded and scaled market-disrupting ventures
- Built technologies that have shaped global culture
- Navigated crises, volatility and systemic disruption
- Set records and left lasting legacies
