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Board & Executive Advisory
Silvermere Advisory’s founders have operated within multinational, FTSE-listed, and highly regulated environments spanning aviation, pharmaceuticals, industrial distribution, global consumer goods, retail, financial services, and manufacturing.
Opening Positioning
Silvermere Advisory supports leadership in moments where execution risk threatens confidence, pace or reputation. Across Abu Dhabi and the wider United Arab Emirates, organisations are modernising enterprise platforms, expanding regionally, investing in digital capability, and preparing for long-term institutional growth. These environments require disciplined execution, mature governance, and leadership clarity under pressure. We provide calm, independent, board-level advisory support when clarity is required and consequences are real. We operate selectively. We work discreetly. We strengthen internal leadership — and then step back.
Who We Advise
We advise leadership in environments where execution risk carries financial, operational or reputational consequence.
- Chairs & Board Members
- CEOs & Executive Committees
- CIOs & CTOs
- Sovereign & Government-Linked Entities
- Family-Owned Enterprises
- Investor-Backed Organisations
Advisory Services
Structured, independent advisory support across three core domains.
Board & Executive Advisory
Board-level delivery assurance, governance clarity and executive stabilisation.
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Transformation & Execution Risk Advisory
Independent diagnosis and structured programme stabilisation in complex environments.
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Operating Model & Delivery Effectiveness
Operating model redesign, cloud governance and delivery flow realignment.
Read moreInstitutional Experience Across Regulated and Global Enterprises
Silvermere Advisory’s founders have operated within multinational, FTSE-listed, and highly regulated environments spanning aviation, pharmaceuticals, industrial distribution, global consumer goods, retail, financial services, and manufacturing.
Founders
The Firm’s Leadership
Silvermere Advisory is led by experienced board and executive advisors with deep institutional exposure
across regulated, investor-sensitive and complex operating environments.
Steven Barker Hodges
Managing Partner
Technology & Operating Model Advisory
Abu Dhabi
Steven advises CIOs, CTOs and executive technology leaders when operating environments lose predictability or governance maturity.
He specialises in:
- Cloud governance and financial discipline
- Engineering and delivery stabilisation
- Operating model clarity
- Organisational flow redesign
- Accountability realignment
His work restores delivery cadence in complex, multi-vendor and multi-stakeholder environments.
Steven combines technical depth with structural pragmatism, enabling leadership teams to regain control without operational disruption.
Executive Education
MIT Sloan – Digital Business Strategy
Professional Scrum Master II
PRINCE2 Practitioner
Jennifer Barker Hodges
Board & Executive Advisory
Abu Dhabi
Jennifer advises Chairs, Boards and executive leadership teams during high-consequence transformation and governance environments across the UAE, United Kingdom and Africa.
Her work focuses on restoring executive confidence where strategic ambition, operational complexity and reputational exposure intersect.
She is engaged when:
- Board oversight requires independent assurance
- Major platform or transformation investment is under scrutiny
- Executive alignment has weakened
- Governance cadence requires recalibration
- Delivery confidence must be restored without destabilisation
Jennifer operates at the intersection of strategy and execution — translating delivery complexity into Board-level clarity.
Her advisory style is structured, discreet and commercially grounded.
Executive Education
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Harvard Business School Executive Education
First-Class Honours Degree in Business
Non-Executive Director in regulated sectors
Institutional Experience Across Regulated and Global Enterprises
Silvermere Advisory’s founders have operated within multinational, FTSE-listed, and highly regulated environments spanning aviation, pharmaceuticals, industrial distribution, global consumer goods, retail, financial services, and manufacturing.
Representative organisations include:
- Informa (FTSE 100 global information services group)
- RS Group (RS Components) – Global industrial and distribution enterprise
- International Airlines Group (IAG) – Multi-national aviation group
- British American Tobacco – Global consumer goods organisation operating in regulated markets
- Tesco – Large-scale retail and eCommerce operations
- Eurostar – International high-speed transport
- WPP – Global marketing and communications group
- Amgen – Regulated pharmaceutical and biotechnology organisation
- Landsec – FTSE-listed property group
- GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) – Global pharmaceutical environment
- Riskflow – Financial technology and supply chain technology
- Formula Chemicals – Manufacturing and industrial operations
This experience spans:
- Board-sponsored enterprise transformation
- Global ERP and CRM modernisation
- Cloud operating model design
- Supply chain and automated distribution expansion
- Revenue optimisation platforms
- Regulated compliance environments
- Cross-border stakeholder governance
We understand the discipline required when execution carries financial, operational or reputational consequence.
Contact Information
Request a Confidential Discussion
For time-sensitive or sensitive matters, we encourage a direct and discreet approach. All enquiries are handled personally and treated with strict confidentiality.
Office Location
Abu Dhabi
United Arab Emirates
General Enquires
info@silvermereadvisory.com
Availability
Sunday – Thursday
09:00 – 18:00 (GST)
