The Argyle Group gains momentum following recent launch
Business advisory firm The Argyle Group is building up steam after launching at the end of last year, with Alexander Lynch recently coming on board as chief commercial officer.
Jamie Miller, a one-time McKinsey & Company consultant, established The Argyle Group in Sydney in December alongside a team of senior advisors after spending six years in leadership roles at high-level London-headquartered strategic advisory Hakluyt & Company.
The new firm offers cross-industry support to CEOs, boards, and senior leaders in diverse areas such as M&A diligence, overseas market entry, international regulatory insights, competitive positioning, business development, and advisory on stakeholder dynamics.
“The global business environment is becoming ever more challenging, opaque, and uncertain,” Miller said. “Corporate leaders see this, but often don’t know what to do about it. With a commitment to independence and precision, The Argyle Group provides leaders with the differentiated insights they need to navigate this environment and make informed decisions.”
Argyle has assembled an impressive roster of business veterans to its senior advisory board, which includes Infrastructure NSW chairman Graham Bradley, former ambassador to China Geoff Raby, experienced director and Bain & Company external advisor Peter Osborne, international energy industry executive Shiva McMahon, and founding Tech Council chief Alex McCauley.
The Argyle Group
“Argyle is such an exciting addition to the professional services landscape,” McCauley said. “Where technology has brought data and AI into key decisions, Argyle will supplement that with human intelligence. With so much public data now so easy for everyone to access, it will be exactly this sort of bespoke, private intelligence that makes all the difference for the top leaders.”
Miller brings his own background in client services to the mix, specialised in private equity, mining, and energy. A PhD-holder in history from the University of Cambridge, Miller then spent time as a lecturer and research fellow at Yale, Cornell, and the University of Pittsburgh focused on the political economy and geopolitics, before returning to Australia and joining McKinsey & Company.
In the six years prior to establishing Argyle, Miller headed Hakluyt’s ‘financial sponsors’ practice, first for Australia and then Asia before taking on the global role. Hakluyt is well-noted for its inside access to the global corridors of power, with, for example, former Australian foreign affairs minister and opposition leader Alexander Downer once a member of its international advisory board.
Meanwhile, Miller is now joined by long-time Google government affairs & public policy leader Alexander Lynch as chief commercial officer. Prior to his decade at the tech giant out of Sydney, Lynch also spent four years as a senior advisor at PR and corporate communications firm John Connolly & Partners, with an earlier background in strategic analysis and diplomacy.
“I believe the next decade belongs to those who can capture AI’s potential while solving the problems AI can’t,” Miller said upon crossing from Google. “AI looks backward at data The Argyle Group looks forward at people. We specialise in the information that isn’t in the training data; the complex human dynamics that actually drive markets. That is where the real commercial edge lies.”
