About

Operators first, advisers second.

Calloway is four people who ran operations and finance inside growing companies before advising them. We started the firm in 2014 because the advice we were sold as operators was written for companies ten times our size.

Two colleagues talking at a table by a window

Our story

Small on purpose.

Ruth ran operations at a food manufacturer that grew from 30 people to 180. Idris was its finance lead. The work that mattered was never the strategy deck; it was pricing, the month-end close and who decides what. That is still all we do, for owners who want it done and handed back.

The firm in numbers

  • 12

    Years advising owners

  • 140+

    Companies, 20 to 200 people

  • 31%

    Median margin gain, year one

  • 9 in 10

    Clients who come back

How we work

Four rules on every engagement.

  • Fixed price, fixed dates

    Every engagement has a number and an end date before it starts.

  • Plain language

    If a sentence needs a glossary, we rewrite it.

  • Evidence first

    We follow real jobs through your business before we have an opinion.

  • Built to end

    The goal of every project is that you stop needing us.

The team

The people who do the work, not a bench of juniors.

  • Ruth Calloway

    Founding partner, operations

  • Idris Bello

    Partner, finance

  • Sonia Park

    Principal, systems

  • Tomas Reyes

    Analyst

Who we work with

Owner-led companies, 20 to 200 people.

  • Manufacturing and food production
  • Logistics and distribution
  • Professional services: design, legal, accounting
  • Healthcare practices and groups
  • Trades and field services

Book a call

Thirty minutes, no pitch.

Tell us what is stuck. We will say whether we can help and what it would cost.