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Helping businesses thrive

About Us
Who We Are

Driving real-world impact

Stonewater is a global professional services firm that utilizes deep industry expertise and world-class researching capabilities to deliver the strategic, tactical, and operational solutions that drive on-the-ground improvements.

We are excited about building the physical and digital infrastructure that underwrites the latest technological innovations. Redesigning the financial tools used by businesses in the hyper-growth world of on-demand platforms? Check. QR smartphone payments that bring instant commerce to the merchants of Southeast Asia’s wet markets? Check. Advising on the rollout of 5G telecommunications equipment that will bring a HD movie to your device in less than 10 seconds? Working on it now.

How We’re Different

Lasting Value

Our teams orient their actions around driving durable growth and improvements for our clients.

Practical results

Our end-goal is always on-the-ground impact, not pie-in-the-sky ideas. We give you solutions that deliver practical value.

Deep expertise

Our team has decades of expertise in their respective fields. If you have a problem, chances are we've solved it before.

Long-term relationships

Due to our client-first attitude and consistent practical impact, clients often choose to engage us for years, not months.

Leadership Team

A team with experience and vision

Feroze Khan
Senior Partner

Feroze has directed hundreds of consulting engagements for senior management of Fortune 100 and privately-owned clients over the past 30 years, including several single clients for each of whom he has led more than 100 engagements. Feroze’s work has been conducted for clients in communications, technology, financial services, healthcare, consumer products, manufacturing, and energy. This work includes leading the transformation of several major companies, directing the principal consulting teams achieving client impacts that include Capex savings of $2.4 billion and Opex savings of over $720 million on an annualized basis; Market Cap gains of $42 billion, a multiple of 14x; and preparing companies for sale at industry-record multiples of earnings.

 

Prior to Stonewater, Feroze was a partner at Kaiser Associates and served as the firm’s Managing Director, leading the business across North America, Europe, and Asia. Feroze began his career with Monitor Group in Boston. Feroze is a graduate with High Honors from Harvard University.

Hailey Chan
Partner

Hailey has led value creation initiatives for clients in the payments and telecommunications tower industries. Hailey’s tower work across tower, fiber, and connectivity infrastructure, has spanned a broad range of operational issues, including organizational strategy, process improvement, reporting and KPIs, and post-merger integration.

She holds a degree in Finance and Marketing from University of Virginia. Her previous work experience includes Kaiser Associates, International Data Corporation (IDC), Michelin, and Continental AG. She also served as VP of Growth Marketing for OVO in Indonesia.

Derek Speranza
Partner

Derek has worked extensively in the tower industry, with a focus on tower, small cell, fiber, and data center companies. Derek’s work has spanned a broad range of strategic and operational issues, including organizational strategy and structuring, process improvement, reporting and KPIs, and post-merger integration.

Prior to joining Stonewater, Derek worked at Kaiser Associates and Time Warner Cable. He holds a degree from Duke University.

Nicholas Daniels
Partner

Nicholas advises clients in telecommunications and financial services, and operators of multisided platforms. His areas of expertise include post-merger integration, product management, go-to-market strategy, and corporate finance. He works with owners of towers, fiber, small cells, and satellites and has counselled the largest telecom infrastructure companies in the U.S., U.K., and Indonesia.

Prior to his current role at Stonewater, he worked at Kaiser Associates and Uber Technologies. Nicholas is an investor in over 300 startups and graduated from Bowdoin College, where he received an A.B. in government.

Locations

Stonewater Partners Locations

New York

800 3rd Ave, Suite 2800
New York, NY 10022 United States

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London

Berkeley Square House
London, W1J 6BD, United Kingdom

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Kuala Lumpur

Q Sentral, KL Sentral
Jalan Stesen Sentral 2, Kuala Lumpur, 50470 Malaysia

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