Our Mission
Help organisations make sound choices about growth and carry them through. We work with leadership teams to address the commercial and organisational challenges that determine whether their plans succeed.
About BPL Advisory
BPL Advisory helps organisations grow in Africa and beyond. We work with CEOs, boards and leadership teams on where to invest, how to improve performance and what the organisation needs to change.
Our advisers bring experience of running businesses and leading change. We work alongside clients from the first strategic choices through to implementation, with senior advisers involved throughout.
Who we are
Business judgement informed by operating experience.
Our advisers have led businesses, developed growth strategies and guided technology change. They understand the demands that strategic decisions place on the people responsible for delivery.
We bring that perspective to the work: examining the commercial case, assessing what the organisation can take on and helping management carry decisions through. Additional specialists join the team where an assignment requires particular sector, functional or geographic expertise.
Our Goals
Build lasting client relationships through work that improves business performance. As priorities develop, we provide continuity and help client teams strengthen their own capacity to lead and deliver change.
Our Values
We provide independent advice and speak candidly about the evidence. We protect confidential information, manage potential conflicts of interest and take responsibility for the quality of our work.
How we work
Senior involvement from strategic choices through to implementation
Each engagement starts with the decisions facing leadership and the organisation's capacity to act. We agree the intended results, establish responsibility for delivery and stay involved as the work progresses.
Understand the challenge
Examine the business, market and operating constraints to establish the issue and the decisions required.
Our team
Meet the people behind the work.
Our team combines business leadership, strategy and technology experience. Senior advisers remain close to the assignment, with additional specialists joining according to the work required.
Lionel Marumahoko
Managing Partner
Lionel advises CEOs, boards and leadership teams on growth, transformation and African market expansion. He brings more than 25 years of executive, board and advisory experience, including senior roles at The Coca-Cola Company. His work has covered commercial operations, business turnarounds and route-to-market redesign.
Jason Hunter
Associate Partner
Jason helps leadership teams identify growth opportunities through customer and non-customer understanding. He designs strategy programmes and market immersions drawing on Blue Ocean Strategy and experiential learning. He is the founder of Corners Group and an Executive Fellow at INSEAD, with more than two decades of executive education and programme-design experience.
Danette Copestake
Associate Partner
Danette advises on technology leadership, AI readiness and governance. She brings more than 25 years of experience as an enterprise architect and fractional CIO, including work in financial services, defence and government. Her approach connects technology decisions with business requirements, organisational readiness and implementation.
Our strategic partners
Building stronger outcomes through meaningful partnerships.
We collaborate with leading organisations, industry experts and trusted institutions to deliver sustainable solutions, drive innovation and create lasting impact.