People & HR Director || Technology Start-Ups & Scale-Ups

I specialise in helping private equity–backed and investor-led businesses realise value through people, leadership and operating execution, particularly across FinTech and Financial Services environments undergoing growth, acquisition and transformation.

My work often starts at the point where transactions become reality. I support Boards, investors and executive teams to translate deal intent into scalable operating models, leadership capability and organisational structures that protect value, accelerate performance and enable sustainable growth beyond Day One.

Over the past decade, I have led complex integrations, carve-outs and restructurings across international markets, including the acquisition and integration of global businesses within regulated financial services and high-growth technology sectors. This has included scaling organisations across multiple geographies, building enterprise-grade people and governance frameworks, and supporting successful exits for institutional investors.

I am particularly effective in entering businesses to assess, stabilise and strengthen leadership, reduce people-related execution risk, and align workforce strategy to commercial ambition. While not a career “BAU HR leader”, I step into operational leadership roles where required, with a mandate to professionalise, simplify and leave behind stronger capability.

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WHAT OTHERS SAY

"Dylan guided the Board with regards to leadership transition at the Company, and executed with integrity and action throughout the restructuring and acquisition programme."
- Farooq Jaffrey, Fintech Venture Capital Investments

"As COO, Dylan worked closely with the CEO to implement a turnaround strategy and successfully positioned the company for its successful acquisition by Trading Technologies."
- Mark Rodrigues, Venture Partner, Illuminate Financial

"In an extremely fast moving and challenging environment, Dylan joined the Integration Team leading the People, Culture and Comms workstream of 200 people from Reg-Room and Thompson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence into CUBE. He hit the ground running, prioritising and delivering urgent and strategic requirements from his first morning."
- Andrew Scola, M&A Director, ex Deloitte, PwC

"What Dylan doesn't know about M&A you could write on your toenail!  He is super knowledgeable, knows his way around M&A like the back of his hand and is SUPER patient. He is objective, thoughtful and puts the employees first - always."
- Elinor Brett, FCIPD, CPO

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Dylan Roberts

Most M&A deals that fail don't fail in Excel, or in a deal sheet. They fail in Teams and random corridor conversations.

If you tackle an acquisition or a carve out, and don’t have a clear people integration plan front and centre, you’re not managing risk. You’re deferring it.

Successful PE models assume execution. People determine whether execution actually happens.

People risk is deal risk. Ignore it at your peril.

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Interim People Leader | HR Change & Transformation | M&A People Integration | Executing the People Agenda for PE-Backed Firms

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Founder and Creative Director of advertia digital, an independent creative digital agency that I have been leading for over 11 years. With a diverse mix of skills and backgrounds, my team and I create tailored digital experiences for businesses of different sizes and types, from solopreneurs ans small startups to Fortune500 companies. We help our clients with digital, creative, communication, and growth strategies designed to let their brands become the leaders of their industries. Since 2020, also Co-founder of a PR agency Punchline, that focuses on PR services in new tech and crypto/web3 space.

Fast forward, 2023 – Forbes Council Member, sharing insights on digital and innovation with a global network of successful senior-level agency executives. Additionally, Managing Director of Sofistance, an open-source NGO education platform for future-oriented leaders and experts. My mission is to work on new and innovative ways to engage users and create business value, to help companies digitalize themselves and take advantage of emerging possibilities, and to find new disruptive business ideas that leverage synergy effects within industries.

Let's get in touch! I would love to hear about your business and brainstorm how to help!

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