About NexWave CorePath
About NexWave CorePath
NexWave CorePath started in 2018 out of a specific frustration. Marcus Ellery had spent nine years inside two mid-size professional services firms, the last four as an operations director, watching external consultants arrive, produce large documents, and leave before anything changed. The documents were often technically correct. The implementation was always someone else's problem. He left in the autumn of 2018 to build a practice where the consultant stays until the thing actually works, or at least until the client can see clearly why it is not working.
The first two years were deliberately small. Three clients in 2019, four in 2020. Marcus turned down two larger engagements in that period because the scope was unclear and the leadership teams were not ready to act on findings. That is still the filter. NexWave CorePath does not take on work where the decision-maker is not in the room. It is not a rule written on a wall somewhere. It is a lesson learned from a painful six-month engagement in early 2019 where every recommendation was approved by a middle layer and quietly shelved before it reached the people who could act on it.
Marcus Ellery spent nine years inside professional services firms before founding NexWave CorePath in 2018, the last four of those years as operations director at Caldwell Merritt Group in Bristol. He trained initially as a management accountant, passed his CIMA finals in 2009, and spent the following decade watching financial data tell stories that organisations refused to act on. He reads operational research journals on Sunday mornings and keeps a running log of every engagement outcome, including the ones that did not go as planned. He turned down a partnership offer at Caldwell Merritt in 2017. That refusal is what made this practice possible.