Strategic, operational, and compliance leadership built in regulated sectors and proven in high-growth, high-pressure environments. This is the experience that underpins the confidence, clarity, and control we help our clients build into their own businesses.

Bonner-Murray Consulting is led by Greg Bonner, a strategic advisor and former SMF3, SMF16, and SMF17 role holder with deep experience across compliance, operations, and leadership. Greg’s career spans regulated and non-regulated sectors, giving him a practical understanding of the demands different businesses face as they grow, scale, and restructure.

Key areas of experience

Regulated financial services

Extensive experience in the IFA and wealth management space. Familiar with FCA oversight, SMCR, and the operational realities of regulated firms. Strong track record in preparing businesses for scrutiny, audit, and acquisition.

Non-regulated and adjacent sectors

Experience supporting professional services, technology providers, and founder-led businesses with operational improvement, compliance alignment, and governance structure. This includes work with firms navigating ISO, AML, GDPR, or internal quality frameworks.

Growth-stage and scaling businesses

Designing internal infrastructure, building governance frameworks, and supporting leadership teams through complexity. Experience includes both startup-style environments and maturing businesses with legacy challenges.

Strategic transformation

Led operational and compliance delivery through mergers, acquisitions, investment readiness, and exits. This includes post-deal integration, steady-state redesign, and handover planning for founder succession.

Operational turnarounds

Hands-on work simplifying complex environments, rebuilding delivery capability, and restoring control when internal systems are under pressure.

Coaching and leadership support

Provides practical, structured support to founders, COOs, and senior leaders. Coaching style is direct, respectful, and grounded in real-world experience. Greg works closely with leaders navigating pressure, growth, and decision fatigue - including those with ADHD or other neurodiverse needs who benefit from structure, space, and clarity.

Board and executive collaboration

Trusted by leadership teams to bring insight, challenge, and follow-through. Experienced in confidential advisory work and trusted to deliver quietly in the background, especially where internal politics or external scrutiny are in play.

Work with someone who’s been in the room when it matters

From preparing firms for sale to stabilising operations post-acquisition, we know what buyers look for, what regulators expect, and what breaks under pressure. That experience now supports the next generation of founders, boards, and leadership teams to grow with confidence, clarity, and control.