Our Mission

Our mission is to support our clients to achieve the exceptional; breaking down the seemingly impossible and delivering the ambition.

Our Vision

Our vision is to delight our customers with successful solutions to challenging ambitions. We adopt bespoke solutions that reflect your unique circumstances.

Our Values

A relentless drive to find solutions with longevity.

An engaging style, providing constructive challenge.

Listening, learning and adapting.

Delightfully surprising.

Our Team

The MCS team is made up of leaders in their fields from around the globe – with experience across a wide range of sectors, including:

Financial Services
Retail
Leisure & Hospitality
Private Equity
Consultancy
Professional Services
Charity & Third Sector

Our team includes chartered accountants, IT directors and a fellow of the ICAEW, to name but a few!

We specialise in…

Our Founders

Carla Stent

Carla has held a number of senior positions in banking, private equity and retail industries. She has had direct responsibility for corporate finance & post-merger integration, strategy, business operations, brand development & management and business transformation. Carla has operated at Board level in several countries for organisations including Virgin Group, Barclays Bank plc and the Thomas Cook Group.

Carla leads the MSC Advisory Business, providing interim strategic, financial and operational consulting to clients in the private, public and third sectors. She is also a serial angel investor, as well as a non executive director on the boards and sub committees of Savernake Capital Group, JPM Morgan Elect plc, Marex Spectron Limited, the Post Office and Power to Change Trust. She has previously served on the boards and committees of Christian Aid, Change Alliance (India) and the Princes Teaching Institute.

Carla is a frequent speaker on corporate culture, gender equality and philanthrophy, as well as a mentor to emerging talent.

Carla is a qualified chartered accountant and was born and educated in South Africa.

Martin Stent

Martin has specialised in Front-To-Back Target Operating Model Strategy, Implementation, Business Analysis, Project Management, Change Management, Functional and Business Process Design, Regulatory Recovery & Resolution Planning (RRP). Martin represented UBS Bank AG (Finance) in the post 2008 UK, Swiss and US regulator imposed RRP (“Too Big to Fail”) programme.

Martin leads the property development division, focusing mainly on mid scale residential development opportunities in the greater London area, including raising primary funding (bank and private).

Martin is an advisor to the Savernake Group’s Audit and Risk Committee and is a Board Member of ‘In Their Life Time’, a subsidiary of Christian Aid – This initiative pioneers new approaches to fight poverty and to scale up effective solutions, in countries like Burundi and India.

Martin is a Chartered Accountant registered in South Africa and England and Wales. He qualified with a B Compt (Hons) from the University of South Africa.