About Trescore Advisers
Trescore Advisers is a boutique consultancy delivering conflict-free strategic advice and hands-on delivery support to leaders across financial advice, wealth, banking and fintech. We also work with firms in other sectors facing the same pressures of scale, transformation and transaction timelines.
We work directly with boards and leadership teams to diagnose what is really holding performance back, align stakeholders around clear choices, and turn plans into measurable progress. We do this without losing sight of control, resilience and accountability.
What we do
Strategic advisory
- Clarify strategy and force the real choices
- Independent, conflict-free counsel to CEO, ExCo and Board
- Challenge on proposition, distribution and operating model
Hands-on delivery
- Execution support for technology, proposition and regulatory change
- Unblock stalled programmes and tighten delivery discipline
- Progress that is measurable, with control and resilience intact
Embedded leadership
- Fractional C-suite capacity where senior input is needed
- Interim and NED mandates in regulated environments
- Executive level ownership without the full time hire
Leadership
Matt Collis is a board level executive with over 25 years leading regulated financial services businesses through growth, transformation and transactions. He is a former CEO, COO and FCA approved senior manager across wealth management, banking, investment services and fintech.
He combines commercial leadership with governance, legal and operating depth. This gives him immediate credibility with boards, regulators, investors and senior teams.
FCA approved senior manager appointments held: SMF1, SMF3, SMF7, SMF16, SMF17, SMF18, GC Legal, Trustee
Career highlights
- 2026 to present, Managing Director, Trescore Advisers. Senior strategic and executive support across wealth, banking, advice and fintech.
- 2024 to 2026, Executive Director SMF3, WealthKernel. Board director, led the transaction team in sale negotiations with Alpaca Markets.
- 2014 to 2024, Independent strategic adviser. Growth, business model and proposition strategy for boards and owners across financial services.
- 2008 to 2014, CEO and Executive Board Member, Brewin Dolphin Group. CEO of Stocktrade and Channel Islands businesses SMF1, group Trustee executive board and COO roles.
Why Trescore
Conflict free by designIndependent of providers, platforms and products. Advice with no agenda other than yours.
Senior onlyThe person you meet is the person who does the work. No leverage model, no junior teams.
CandourThe hard calls, plainly put. The level of honesty you only get from a true partner.
Delivery you can measureImprovements customers can feel, quickly, transparently, and with accountability attached.
