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Eleven of us, in Edinburgh since 2012.

Isla Dunbar started Ferrow to work with the companies big firms rarely call back: family businesses of 50 to 800 people, with no strategy department and no time to build one.

Isla Dunbar walking a knitwear mill floor with the operations director

Why we work this way

We charge a fixed fee for every piece of work, agreed in writing before we start. Our clients run on fixed budgets, and so do we.

The firm stays small on purpose. A partner leads every engagement and sits in every meeting that matters, from the first call to the handover.

2012

founded in Edinburgh

160

engagements

58%

of clients hire us again

people, four of them partners

The team

Five more consultants work with us. You will meet the ones on your project at the first workshop.

Isla Dunbar

Founding partner

Founded Ferrow in 2012 after nine years running pricing at a Scottish food group. Leads most of our succession work.

Callum Reid

Partner

Ran two factories in Dundee before joining in 2014. Leads operations and scheduling work.

Priya Nair

Partner

Spent eight years opening new markets for a Norwegian seafood exporter. Joined in 2016.

Rob Sinclair

Partner

A former corporate finance director. Prepares companies for a sale, an investor or a family handover.

Tom Akande

Consultant

Builds the models behind our recommendations. Joined from a logistics firm in 2020.

Nadia Hussain

Consultant

An industrial engineer who spends most weeks on clients’ floors.

The office

21 Albany Lane, Edinburgh EH1 3QR. Ten minutes on foot from Waverley station, with a meeting room that seats twelve.

A long oak meeting table in a Georgian townhouse office with tall sash windows

Edinburgh rooftops and the castle at dusk from Calton Hill

Start with a half‑hour call.

Tell us what’s changed in the business. If we’re not the right firm for it, we’ll say so and suggest one that is. We can take two new clients from January.

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