About Forward Lane Advisory

Strategic thinking, practical execution, and leadership that moves organisations forward

Forward Lane Advisory partners with organisations, founders, boards, and senior leaders to solve strategic questions with clarity, commercial rigour, and real-world delivery focus.

  • Customized strategic roadmaps for sustainable growth
  • Targeted M&A, market entry, and proposition guidance
  • Executive coaching, leadership development, and board mentoring
  • Digital, operating model, and transformation support
100+ years combined leadership and advisory experience
10+ countries supported across growth and transformation work
50+ leaders advised on strategic and transformation priorities
Financial services depth across insurance, banking, wealth, and fintech
Team discussion around strategy

Our Story

Forward Lane Advisory was created to combine high-quality strategic thinking with practical transformation insight. We bring together experience from listed companies, global advisory firms, inter-governmental organisations, and multinational institutions to help clients move from ambition to action.

Our work is grounded in deep expertise across financial services and adjacent sectors, with a strong focus on insurance, wealth and asset management, banking, fintech, and developmental finance. We aim to bring both external perspective and internal relevance to every client challenge.

  • Advised senior executives on growth, proposition, and transformation priorities
  • Supported market entry, commercial due diligence, and M&A processes across multiple geographies
  • Helped shape leadership development and executive mentoring programmes
  • Supported a financial services firm’s successful IPO on the London Stock Exchange
  • Led work connected to inaugural credit rating acquisition and investor-facing strategic positioning
  • Contributed to international growth strategy in later-life income and lending
  • Assessed the implications of GenAI for organisational structure, capability, and operating model design

Our Values

Our values shape how we think, partner, and deliver. They help ensure our work remains commercially grounded, intellectually honest, and genuinely useful to clients.

Integrity

Honest thinking, clear advice, and responsible partnership.

Innovation

Fresh thinking applied to real strategic and operational challenges.

Client First

Tailored support built around the client context and ambition.

Digital First

Technology-enabled approaches that improve speed and effectiveness.

Deep Insight

Combining analysis, sector knowledge, and judgement.

International

Global perspective with sensitivity to market and cultural context.

Collaboration

Working with clients, not just for them.

Agility

Responsive, practical, and able to adapt as priorities evolve.

What We Help Clients With

We support leaders and organisations where strategic clarity, growth decisions, and execution capability matter most.

Growth Strategy

Clarifying where to play, how to win, and how to sequence strategic moves for sustainable growth.

M&A and Commercial Diligence

Supporting opportunity assessment, value creation thinking, strategic rationale, and management challenge.

Proposition and Market Entry

Helping shape customer propositions, market positioning, partnerships, and entry strategies.

Transformation and Execution

Bridging strategy and implementation through governance, operating model, and change support.

Executive Coaching

Supporting leaders through growth, transition, self-awareness, and higher-impact decision-making.

Digital and AI Readiness

Exploring how digital, automation, and AI can reshape capability, proposition, and organisational design.

Meet the Team

Our team combines strategic, operational, leadership, sustainability, and digital expertise to provide clients with thoughtful advice and grounded execution insight.

Subhanko Basu

Subhanko Basu

Founder & Strategic Adviser

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Sandeep Kaul

Sandeep Kaul

Board Adviser – Executive Coaching & Board Mentoring

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Ribhu Barua

Ribhu Barua

Board Adviser – Sustainability & Impact Growth

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Annkur Pandey

Annkur Pandey

Board Adviser – Digital Marketing & Automation

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Representative Client Profiles

Our work spans institutions, investors, advisory firms, and regulated financial services organisations. The examples below reflect the types of client environments and contexts we have supported.

UK professional services firm
Japanese bank
UK bulk annuity provider
Top-tier strategy consulting firm
US-based hedge fund
US institutional investor
Global asset manager
UK professional services firm
Japanese bank
UK bulk annuity provider
Top-tier strategy consulting firm
US-based hedge fund
US institutional investor
Global asset manager