A principal led advisory practice.
JYCO Partners is led by James Yau and works with a small number of principals, families and enterprises at a time. The firm is deliberately small, international in its experience, and practical in what it does.
James Yau
James Yau has more than two decades of international experience across management consulting, business strategy, operations, technology, capital and enterprise development.
He has worked with governments, private companies, family offices, multinational organisations and entrepreneurs across multiple countries and industries.
His work sits at the intersection of strategy and execution, examining the financial, operational, commercial and organisational realities behind important decisions.
His operating experience includes agriculture, technology commercialisation, automation, international supply chains and complex business development environments.
In agriculture, that operating work spans more than 200 farms and ten built projects on four continents, and produced Agri Variables, a practical framework for understanding where performance is created or lost.
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Breadth first. Operating depth where it was earned.
International
Engagements across Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa and the Americas, with governments, private companies and multinational organisations.
Technology
Technology commercialisation, automation and the operating model that decides whether a technology deploys.
Read more →Operations
Operating models, management systems and performance, measured in the business's own units.
Agriculture & AgTech
Deep operating experience: more than 200 farms and ten built projects on four continents.
Read more →Capital & Transactions
Transaction readiness, commercial due diligence and financing preparation, alongside the client's existing advisers.
Read more →Complex businesses
Privately held companies, owner led groups and situations with no obvious single owner.
Senior associates, brought in where the situation needs them.
The firm stays small. Where an engagement needs specialist depth, James brings in senior associates rather than a bench of junior consultants.
Dave Paull
Third generation in food, creative director of more than twenty years. Dave owns the market side of an engagement: the position a buyer can price, the commercial proof, and the investor narrative, built rather than briefed.
David Place
Lawyer by training, with more than thirty years in tax, transaction structuring and corporate finance across the United States and Brazil. David owns the capital side of an engagement: the structure a lender can approve, the counterparties and the route to closing.