Skip to content
TudorvaleAdvisory

Perspective for
What Comes Next

Corporate advisory, IT systems and digital transformation for business owners and boards.

Led by Andrew Jones, former Chairman of TomCo Energy plc.

Discuss your businessExplore the experience
Still water and mountain ridges in Eryri, North Wales.

The practice

Advice informed by running businesses

You may be preparing to raise finance, considering a sale, or finding that your systems are holding the business back. Tudorvale Advisory works with you on the commercial decisions and the technology needed to support them.

Andrew Jones has led an IT services business and chaired TomCo Energy plc. His work spans systems design and digital transformation as well as corporate finance and business management. He works directly with clients on both commercial and technology assignments.

Based in North Wales and London, with experience in the UK, the United States and Sierra Leone.

Areas of advice

How we can help

01

Board and corporate advisory

Support for boards reviewing strategy or restructuring a business. We help identify what needs to change and put the reporting and responsibilities in place to manage it.

Scope and starting point

Typical work includes strategic and restructuring reviews, board and management structure, internal controls, management reporting, board papers, and coordination with shareholders and professional advisers.

The same work covers commercial planning and positioning, decision frameworks, meeting discipline, advisory board preparation, and the stakeholder briefings and strategic narratives a board needs to explain itself clearly.

Founder and executive support sits here too. Where an owner or chief executive wants regular external judgement, we agree scheduled sessions, commercial prioritisation, and preparation for the decisions and conversations ahead.

A typical starting point: Review the decisions facing the board and whether it has the information it needs.

02

Financing and transaction preparation

We work with management to prepare the business case and financial information for a proposed funding round, acquisition or sale. The aim is to give funders and professional advisers the material they need to assess the business.

Scope and starting point

Typical work includes information memoranda, pitch decks, business plans, data room preparation, sale readiness reviews, and developing supporting financial information with the company's management and finance team.

It also covers lender preparation and succession planning: assembling what a bank, funder or incoming owner will ask for, testing the commercial story against it, and closing the gaps before the business is put in front of anyone.

A typical starting point: Review the existing material, identify information gaps, and agree a preparation programme with clear responsibilities.

Our role is preparation and commercial support. Tudorvale Advisory does not arrange investments or provide regulated investment advice. Legal, tax, accounting, and regulated transaction advice remain with appropriately qualified or authorised professionals.

03

IT systems and digital transformation

Advice and practical support for businesses reviewing their technology or changing how they work. Andrew helps assess existing systems, choose suitable platforms and suppliers, and plan and oversee implementation.

Scope and starting point

Work includes IT infrastructure and network reviews, Microsoft 365 and cloud strategy, CRM and workflow design, management reporting, automation, supplier and platform assessment, business continuity, cyber and operational resilience reviews, and technology roadmap development.

We begin with how people use the systems, where problems occur and what the business needs. The result is a prioritised plan for improvements, with responsibilities and costs to consider.

A typical starting point: Review how the business actually runs on its current systems, then set the priorities and sequence for changing them.

We agree the delivery arrangements with you. Implementation may involve Andrew, Tudorvale's technology services or your existing suppliers, depending on the assignment.

04

Business improvement and venture development

Help with improving business performance or setting up a new operation. This can involve reviewing costs and working practices, developing a business plan, or coordinating work with local advisers overseas.

Scope and starting point

Typical work includes operational and cost reviews, improvement programmes, subsidiary structure, business planning, technology commercialisation planning, CSR reporting, and coordination with local professionals and project stakeholders.

Overseas venture work covers company formation, constitutional documents, appointing local professional advisers, and the practical sequence a project has to follow before it can start trading.

A typical starting point: Review the business plan and identify what needs to happen before the project can proceed.

Engagement formats and professional boundaries

Track record

Selected experience

The following work was undertaken by Andrew Jones in previous executive and advisory roles. It is not presented as Tudorvale Advisory client work.

Board reconstruction and executive leadership | 2015 to 2020

TomCo Energy plc

Andrew joined TomCo as Non-Executive Chairman in July 2015 with a mandate to rebuild the board, change the nominated adviser, reduce costs, and strengthen governance. He became Executive Chairman in October 2016 and served until March 2020.

His responsibilities combined board leadership with direct executive work: committee structures, internal controls, share-dealing policies, implementation of the Market Abuse Regulation, market communications, audit coordination, budgets, and payment oversight. He worked with the nominated adviser, registrars, financial PR advisers, and the company's Isle of Man representatives.

Andrew reduced overheads and improved governance, work acknowledged in TomCo's public presentations. He also worked on financing and the development of the group's subsidiaries.

Group responsibilities

The Oil Mining Company Inc.

As President of TomCo's US asset-holding subsidiary, Andrew restructured its board and reviewed its operating arrangements. He brought together a detailed account of its mineral assets, permits, leases, and state and federal obligations, including renewal of lapsed agreements where appropriate.

The work gave the parent company a clearer understanding of its assets and responsibilities, supported by engagement with local specialists, authorities, and legal advisers.

TomCo Palm Oil Ltd

Andrew worked on establishing TomCo's Sierra Leone subsidiary, including company formation, constitutional documents, local professional relationships, banking and debt arrangements, land negotiations, and business planning.

This was development-stage work on a proposed palm oil operation. TomCo subsequently refocused on its US oil shale opportunity.

TurboShale Inc.

Andrew served as President of TurboShale and established its corporate structure and administration. His work extended to commercial and IP structuring, development planning, and coordination across the executive, technical, legal, and financing teams.

The venture brought together TomCo and specialist partners to develop radio-frequency oil shale technology. Andrew's contribution formed part of a wider team responsible for technical development, strategy, and fundraising.

Capital raising and corporate finance

City & Merchant and earlier finance ventures

At City & Merchant, Andrew worked on capital raising, placing documentation, investor relations, and coordination between clients and their professional advisers. His earlier project work included supporting DXS International with equity fundraising in connection with its proposed market admission.

He also held leadership and directorship roles in the Altitude businesses and Atlantic & Pacific Partners, working with growing companies on financing, corporate structure, and investor communications.

Operational turnaround | Interim Managing Director

Too2Much

The principal investor appointed Andrew to turn the business around. He took responsibility for its profit and loss, marketing and public relations.

Andrew led the turnaround, and the business was subsequently sold to a larger group.

Business formation, sale, and integration

Tudorvale and Zarcus

Andrew built an IT services business serving financial-sector and other specialist clients, developing its team, systems, and commercial relationships. Following the sale of the services business to Zarcus, he took a technical leadership role supporting integration.

His technical work included network design, IT infrastructure, security and business continuity. At Zarcus, his responsibilities included recruiting and training engineers, introducing internal systems, managing performance and transferring client relationships.

Hospitality project advisory | 2013

The Place, Tokeh, Sierra Leone

Andrew prepared an information memorandum and investor pitch deck, working with the company on the supporting financial information.

The wider assignment included CSR reporting, a business review, an operational improvement programme, and engagement with local traditional leadership, peninsula leadership, parliamentarians, and the ministers responsible for lands and tourism.

The full background
Andrew Jones, who leads Tudorvale Advisory.
Andrew Jones

Your adviser

Working with Andrew

You work directly with Andrew throughout the assignment. The first conversation is about what is happening in your business and where you need help.

An assignment may involve your IT infrastructure, workflows and reporting, or a board decision or financing proposal. Andrew works with your management team, technology suppliers and professional advisers as the work requires.

Based in North Wales and London, Andrew works with clients across the UK and internationally. He speaks English and Welsh fluently.

How we work

Agreeing the work

Understand the situation
We discuss what you need, the information available and whether Andrew can help.
Agree the assignment
Before starting, we agree the work, fees and timetable in writing. We also establish who will be involved and where specialist advice is needed.
During the assignment
Some assignments are a single review. Others involve preparing documents or working with the business over several months. We agree the arrangement to suit the work.

Discuss your business

Tell Andrew what you are considering or what needs attention. You can discuss the next steps before committing to an assignment.

Discuss your business