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FCA, MA, BA (Hons)
DIRECTOR
Based in Vancouver, Canada
+1 (604) 446 7078
Laura Burberry is an established Chartered Accountant with a wealth of experience in turnaround, interim management, restructuring, performance improvement, M&A, and market analysis. With close to 20 years experience in turnaround and restructuring, Laura has a proven track record implementing sustainable, and lasting changes.
Laura’s experience covers the public, private and not-for-profit sectors in healthcare, having advised on public acute and mental health hospitals, not-for-profit nursing homes and publicly traded care home operators. In addition, Laura also has experience in several other sectors including: oil and gas, financial services, mining, shipping, consumer goods, and retail.
Before joining Gibbins Advisors, Laura was the Western Canada Leader for Deloitte’s Performance Enhancement Advisory practice and was a Senior Director at FTI Consulting where she set up FTI Asia’s turnaround and performance improvement service line.
Key Skills & Expertise
- Operational management; 
- Performance improvement; 
- Turnaround and restructuring; 
- M&A (financial, commercial, customer due diligence, M&A value creation); 
- Interim management; 
- Market analysis, business analysis; 
- Fraud and investigations; 
- Project management and PMO. 
Specialist Industries
- Healthcare: 
 – Acute hospitals;
 – Mental health hospitals;
 – Nursing homes
- Broad sector experience including: 
 – Oil and gas; – Financial services;
 – Shipping; – Consumer goods;
 – Retail; – Software / IoT;
Experience covers the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors in Canada, UK, Asia and United States.
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      - Appointed Interim Finance Director of Southern Cross Healthcare Group PLC to lead the solvent wind down of the largest care home operator in the UK (listed company). 
- Led a Program Management Office for a CA$1.57 billion transaction involving workstreams in 23 jurisdictions. 
- Appointed Interim CFO and board member of a private equity backed mining company with operations in Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Hong Kong. Developed and implemented turnaround plan while negotiating funding with lenders. 
- Appointed Interim CFO of a shipping company in Receivership with operations in Indonesia and Singapore. Managed all day-to-day operations, cash flow and redefining the company’s strategy, resulting in the sale of assets and closure of loss-making divisions. 
- Turnaround of the UK’s most distressed public hospital. Achieved savings of over £50 million while improving patient safety. Led an organization-wide staffing transformation and was appointed Acting Head of Procurement. 
- Advised the UK government and healthcare regulators on acute and mental health hospitals on risk assessments, due diligence, cost improvement and working capital. 
- Business review for a deteriorating 70-bed not-for-profit nursing home operator. 
- Led multiple M&A commercial, financial, customer due diligence engagements. 
- Advised large corporations in the retail and consumer goods space on market analysis, go to market strategies and business cases. 
 
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      - Masters in Business Management from Durham Business School and a 
- Bachelor of Arts from the University of Durham (UK). 
 
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      - Laura has been a FCA (Fellow Chartered Accountant) of the Institute of Chartered Accountants for England and Wales for over 15 years. 
- In 2024, Laura was appointed onto the Board of Directors for Highlands Kids Club, a not-for-profit organization. 
 
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