People Practice.
Leadership, organisation, culture, succession, and the human systems behind performance.
Advisory firm · People · Finance · Technology · Business
Advisors who have led what they advise on.
A senior advisory practice bringing operating experience, commercial discipline, and practical judgement to the moments that shape enterprise value.
Practice, experience, and team information is drawn from the official Presence Practice website and its individual leadership profiles.
Leadership
The people behind the practice.
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Kalyana Sivagnanam
Partner · Business Practice · Technology Practice
A global mobility and multi-sector leader with more than 30 years of operating experience and commercial responsibility across more than 100 countries.
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Mohit Bhargava
Partner · Finance Practice
A finance and transaction leader whose work spans M&A, IPO readiness, capital structure, and finance transformation across complex international businesses.
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Anton van der Walt
Partner · People Practice
A leadership strategist, executive coach, and author with more than 30 years of experience across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Australia.
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Vineet Bhargava
Partner · Technology Practice
A business and technology leader with more than 23 years of experience in product engineering, scalable technology platforms, and agentic AI.
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Henrik H. Christiansen
Sr. Principal Consultant · Europe · GCC
A senior executive and board advisor with more than 20 years of leadership experience across Europe and the GCC, focused on transformation, governance, and growth.
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The practice
Operating judgement brought into the advisory room.
Presence Practice is built around a simple proposition: its advisors have held the operating responsibilities they now advise on. The firm brings together senior leadership experience across people, finance, technology, and business.
Its work is aimed at the moments when enterprise value is most exposed: scaling, turnaround, future navigation, succession, and the development of proprietary technology. The published principles are discretion, integrity, and impact.
4Integrated practices
100+Countries of operating exposure
30+Years at C-suite and board level
5Leadership profiles presented
Four integrated practices
Different disciplines, one enterprise view.
Finance Practice.
Transactions, capital structure, readiness, controls, and finance transformation.
Technology Practice.
Product engineering, digital platforms, technology leadership, and applied AI.
Business Practice.
Strategy, governance, transformation, growth, and operating-model execution.
Discretion · Integrity · Impact
Senior advice grounded in direct operating experience and focused on decisions that can be implemented, measured, and sustained.