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Volta Associates provides strategic advice and insight to corporates, investment funds, international financing agencies and government-based entities.

About

The Company

Volta Associates Pte Ltd

Volta Associates is a strategic investment advisory business serving clients in Asia, particularly South East Asia, from offices in Singapore.

Since its formation 10 years ago, the company has worked in China, India and Kazakhstan and has specialized in Vietnam and Indonesia.  The Company is actively helping to match qualified domestic companies with international finance to help them grow, acquire new businesses or change ownership. It is also assisting a number of investors in the privatisation process, including post acquisition planning, business restructuring and change management.

For many clients in the region, a significant challenge facing them is the planning and implementation of successful leadership or ownership succession and transition to place the company on track for its next phase of successful growth.

Volta Associates partners with clients ranging from corporates, investment funds, international financing agencies, government-based entities and not-for-profits.

Sectors include agribusiness, finance, infrastructure, privatization, corporate governance and sustainability.  

Volta Associates is well placed to help clients contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, drawing on 30 years of experience of integrating human and social development into private sector investments in more than 50 countries. 

The Founder

Robin McPhail

The company is led by Robin McPhail who is Managing Director. As Partner in Deloitte, he co-founded and became Partner in Charge of Deloitte Emerging Markets Group (EMG), running this successful international business for 25 years.

Based in Washington DC, Brussels and London, EMG grew to be a global leader in expanding the role of the private sector in sustainable development in emerging economies.

Since 2007, Mr. McPhail has been an independent advisor to international institutions on strategy, compliance and change management.  He went on to found Volta Associates to provide independent advice to investors in small and medium-size enterprises in selected emerging markets, and to serving corporates and not-for-profits as an Independent Non-Executive Director. 

The founder brings to Volta Associates a broad and deep professional network, trusted business relationships, and a demonstrated track record of enabling private sector solutions to economic and human development in 50 countries around the world. Sectors include agribusiness, the financial sector, manufacturing, energy, natural resources, health, tourism as well as corporate governance and sustainability. 

Following the founder’s relocation to Singapore in 2015, the business was incorporated as Volta Associates Pte Ltd.

Origin of the Company name

Volta Associates

Volta Associates takes its name from a street in Georgetown, Washington DC. Volta Place is home to the Volta Institute for the Deaf, founded by Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone and a native of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Robin McPhail, also born in Edinburgh, lived in Volta Place for many years.  Robin’s international career has followed the Scottish diaspora with its long history of contributing to the economic and human development of countries around the world.

This open and borderless view of the world underpins the aspirations and work of Volta Associates.