- Solicitor, SRA No. 16328 (30+ yrs PQE)
- Sloan Fellow, London Business School (MSc Strategy & Leadership)
- Module Lead, UCL School of Management
- Course Director, London Business School
- Programme Lead, Oxford University (Saïd)
- Programme Lead, Imperial College London
- Author, The Film Finance Handbook (world #1 for 8 years)
- London-based, travel flexible
Our Founder
Adam Davies has spent thirty-five years advising, sitting on, or reporting to executive teams and their boards.
Much of that career has been spent helping organisations and entire sectors navigate potentially existential change – moments when an industry or business faces fundamental disruption, and needs to recognise, prepare and act in real time.
Examples span four decades:
- In the 1990s, advising on the transformation of music licensing in the advent of the internet and digital media – including designing the UK's first internet music licence.
- In the 2000s, working with major film companies on the shift to digital streaming – including advising LOVEFiLM/Amazon Prime to move from download to streaming and introduce pay-per-view.
- In the 2010s, advising universities on how to adapt to new performance indicators and ranking methodologies – including opening up Middle Eastern universities to mixed-gender education and international faculty, and advising QS.com as it became the leading brand in university ranking worldwide.
- In the early 2020s, leveraging AI and deep machine learning to address a new era of reporting and risk analysis on nature and biodiversity risk for corporates and financial institutions.
- Most recently, advising professional services on up to 70% AI-driven productivity improvement, and developing new strategic frameworks for law firms navigating the leadership and organisational challenges of the AI era.
In addition to the advisory work, Adam has held multiple CEO roles, including building QS Consulting from inception, creating the pioneering Sanona movie streaming platform, and most recently serving as CEO of Nature MRV, the first AI-driven biodiversity risk and reporting platform.
For more than a decade, Adam's experience has been sought by some of the world's leading business schools and organisations – including London Business School, UCL School of Management, Oxford University, Imperial College, Warwick Business School, UCLA, the Indian School of Business and WeWork – where he has designed and delivered programmes on growth strategy, leadership, entrepreneurship and finance to over 1,200 senior executives and 700 MBA students. These include UCL's core Managing the Growing Firm module, as well as LBS's Entrepreneurial Edge and Oxford's VIEW I and VIEW II.
Adam is a Sloan Fellow of London Business School (Strategy & Leadership), and a practising solicitor, having qualified in 1995. He has provided legal services at a number of City and West End firms such as Herbert Smith, SJ Berwin, Tarlo Lyons and Howard Kennedy, and as Head of Legal and Business Affairs at several listed PLCs.
Adam was also the author of The Film Finance Handbook, the world's best-selling guide to film finance for eight consecutive years.
Our Network
Investrum provides advisory services directly to organisations and their leadership teams. Where engagements require specialist input, we draw on a trusted network covering AI and technology implementation, regulatory compliance, operations, data and analytics, finance and HR. Every engagement is led personally by Adam.
