Claire Heuberger, Founder & CEO

Claire Heuberger

Since late 2022, Claire has been an independent Strategic Advisor in the industrial sector, specialising in Private Equity and Corporate clients. She offers expert counsel on transactions, strategic vision, portfolio company restructuring, and assesses management team capabilities.

She advised clients in the corporate world, family offices and private equity on strategy, M&A, joint-ventures and other types of business cooperation. She has deep experience of corporate and market strategy, M&A cross-border transactions (acquisitions and divestments), complex JV and partnership deals, including a broad range of operational, deadlock and exit situations in countries such as Belgium, Germany, Italy,Brazil, Turkey, Kazakhstan, India and others.

Claire has over 15 years of experience in the industrial world, leading transformational strategies, executing deals, turning around underperforming partnerships or even exiting minority shareholdings and unfavourable positions where necessary. Claire can help out at the early stages of partnering projects, in the context of a market or corporate strategy, as well as in the implementation or remedy phase. She has hands-on experience of tackling projects from A to Z, balancing short and long-term priorities so as to maximise value creation and sustainable growth for clients.

Prior to acting as an Independent Strategic Advisor, Claire was the Head of the Global Joint Ventures & Partnering practice at Lincoln International, a mid-market investment bank. She also worked in the industry and led the corporate strategy and M&A department of two large family-owned companies in the mining sector, Sibelco and Carmeuse. In this role, she re-defined the Groups’ strategy, coordinating different market strategies and executed a number of strategic projects, M&A acquisitions and divestments as well as JVs. She also worked in close collaboration with R&D on corporate venturing programs and spent several years on market and BU strategy at Air Products. She is also the founder and CEO of Monokrom, acting as a sports agent for elite athletes.