About

The people you work with.

Portrait of Lee Purcell — **Lee Purcell**Founder Managing Director

A senior executive and regional business leader who has built, grown and run businesses in the UK, the Middle East and internationally. CEO of a health-technology business, and founder of three businesses built from concept, two inside major corporates and one an early-stage start-up. He combines that operating experience with deep advisory experience at some of the world's leading consulting firms, where he held regional leadership roles and sat on senior leadership teams, advising the head offices and regional hubs of large multinationals. A track record in growth, turnaround, market entry and transformation, and a keen advocate of applied AI, building automation and agents that change how teams work. Collabor8™ is where he brings it together, working directly with organisations, from founders to global groups, on the problems that matter.

The network

A senior team, built around your problem.

Former corporate consultantsTrained in the large consulting firms, with the rigour that brings.

Sector specialistsPeople who know an industry from the inside.

Senior entrepreneursSuccessful across sectors, with businesses of their own behind them.

Commercial supportBusiness development and sales support to carry the work into market.

Based across the UK, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. We build the team around your problem and adjust it as the work changes, so you always have the right expertise and nothing you do not need.

How we work

Senior, direct and in plain language.

Curiosity drives us. Collaboration gets us there. We learn as much from our clients as they do from us.

Senior from the start.You deal with senior people from the first conversation to the final result.
The right team for the problem.We assemble the mix each problem needs, without layers.
Paid in the way that fits the work.Fees or a shared outcome, as set out below.

Working together

Paid in the way that fits the work.

Fees where you want cost certainty. Revenue share where your expertise and ours combine and we share the result. Equity where we build something new together and hold a stake in it.

Fees

Day rates, fixed project fees or monthly retainers.

You know the cost before we start.

Right whenYou are an established organisation and want cost certainty.

Shared outcome

Revenue share on what we build together.

Our return reflects the effort, the depth of knowledge and the value we bring, including the result.

Right whenYou are building something new and want a partner with a stake.

Equity

A stake in the venture we help create.

For the right opportunity, we take a share in the business or joint venture itself, often alongside a smaller retainer.

Right whenYou need senior leadership to structure and launch a venture, such as a joint venture in a new market, and a shared stake keeps us aligned for the long term.

The principle

You deal with senior people from the first conversation to the final result.

The spirit

Play fair, work hard, win together, and have fun doing it. The work is serious and the standards are high. The people are good company, and the best results come from doing it together.

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