About Us

The Chesterfield Group is a boutique strategic advisory firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area specializing in a number of very focused, high-level services to Boards of Directors, and Chief Executive Officers. We also collaborate with a variety of Professionals who serve this same client market.

Value Proposition:

Chesterfield Group enhances stakeholder value for our clients through a focus on

• Business Model evaluation and optimization.  The Business Model, not to be confused with a Business Plan, is a brief rationale for how the company as a whole intends to add value to its constituencies.  To do this, it will include an overall vision for the company, a recognition of which constituencies it intends to serve, a definition of success for each constituency and a summary of the company’s competitive strengths and constraints that will influence its ability to achieve success.
• Recognition of opportunities for the use of Collaborative Business Structures, such as joint ventures, licensing agreements, outsourcing arrangements and partnerships—most particularly as an alternative to a merger or acquisition.  New and improved visions are often available to a company’s Business Model, if certain constraints can be overcome.  To the extent that filling those gaps may sometimes appear to be possible through a combination with another company, the idea of a merger or acquisition is often considered.  Prior to their committing to the M&A approach, we help our clients place that M&A transaction in perspective with numerous other types of Collaborative Business Structures to determine if such other structures might fill the gaps with greater certainty or less risk than the M&A would provide.

Robert (Bob) George founded the Company as a platform to bring to prospective clients a specific set of principles and experience from his own background. These principles are sufficiently abstract as to apply across all industries and all types and sizes of businesses.

That said, however, we recognize that any given client works in the real world of his or her particular situation, including industry, size, etc., with his or her own unique constraints and opportunities related to that situation. The Chesterfield Group's application of its abstract principles must reflect those realities.

To help facilitate that application, Mr. George collaborates with a number of associates he has built up over the years with a broad base of experience in many different industries and business situations. They act as the Chesterfield Group's Board of Advisors and provide background and assistance on assignments within their special areas of experience.