Oliver Gordon-Brown

Elected as Men's Vice-captain for the 2026 season. Responsible for all things performance and team culture at the UK's top club rowing programme.

Joined as Associate Director and promoted after 6 months to Commercial director leading client origination, BizOps, and account management. Driving commercial strategy to generate sustainable revenue growth in new target markets. Responsible for team growth, business strategy, and overall execution/delivery. Provided extensive strategy and growth consultancy services to clients across FinTech, Insurance & InsurTech, and PropTech sectors. Scoped and built entire business units from scratch, as well as advising on market expansion and overseas hiring opportunities. Strong stakeholder engagement, project management, and revenue optimisation experience in a high-growth commercial start-up. Contributed to >70% YoY revenue growth and 40% headcount growth in my first year at the firm. Built go-to-market strategy for new product lines across the UK, EU, and MENA.

I led teams to complete client-facing projects, client-acquisition work, and assist with internal restructuring. I acted as commercial and client origination lead for the group. I successfully brought in multiple commercial clients to the firm both single-handedly and as client-lead on pitch teams. Managed over 60+ analysts on projects for major international clients, producing long-form quantitative research papers. Specialised in North America, LATAM, European affairs, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and international energy policy. Had my evidence used as part of House of Lords policy recommendations, and cited multiple times by HoC Select Committees as evidence in various enquiries. This includes the Kerslake Commission, where I supported a team from LP to provide key supporting research on request.

Member of the founding cohort of London Politica. Founded the Europe and Ukraine Watch programmes, as well as spearheading internal restructuring to better suit ongoing project work.

Responsible for all aspects of performance, team management, and fundraising for one of the UK's most successful university programmes and a GB High Performance Centre. Won multiple national medals as well as UK University Championship in 2023. Led and managed 70+ athlete squad.

Undertook detailed research and analysis for written papers, proofing and editing materials for clients, and supported the Directors on content deliverables. Completed an independent research paper delivered to the firm on a relevant geopolitical area. Most importantly I had an amazing time learning more about the field and relevance of International Relations in a commercial setting, and made strong connections with staff at the firm.

Worked with data analysis, delivering presentations to senior partners and optimising company-wide data transfers using Microsoft Excel. Classic student, I turned up hungover as *hell* on my first day, but managed to style it out so that's good!

Worked on report editing, research and presentation delivery and helped to set up and run a 4th July BBQ for service personnel. Discussed improvements to their Public Affairs Office and social media presence.

Currently undertaking the Senior Leader Level 7 course. This is a Masters' Degree equivalent and qualifies me for CMI status once completed.