Board & executive advisory
Strategic counsel for boards and leadership teams of large consumer and retail businesses — on digital growth, channel economics, marketplace strategy, and organisational capability.
Learn moreDigital commerce advisory for businesses that trade at scale.
Langford Digital Advisory works with boards, leadership teams, and investors on the growth, transformation, and resilience of digital retail businesses.
Advice on digital commerce is easy to find. Advice from people who have actually run it at scale is not. LDA was built on operating experience, not observation: growing one of the UK's largest online retail businesses, building a marketplace from zero, and leading through one of retail's most serious cyber incidents.
What we do
Advisory to investors
Commercial due diligence, portfolio value creation, and digital growth strategy for private equity and venture capital — grounded in what actually moves the P&L.
Learn moreLeadership
Interim executive and non-executive leadership for consumer, retail, and digital businesses that need proven hands at the top table.
Learn more- £800m → £2bn+
- M&S.com revenue growth
- 2% → 8%
- online EBIT margin expansion
- 200+ brands, £400m
- Brands@M&S marketplace built from zero
- 25 years
- leading digital commerce at M&S, Asda Walmart, and Tesco
Delivered by our founder as an operator — not observed from the sidelines.
Founder
Stephen Langford, Founder
Stephen led Online, Omnichannel & Partnerships at M&S, scaling M&S.com beyond £2bn and building the Brands@M&S marketplace. Previously VP & Co-Managing Director of George@Asda and a Walmart Inc. officer, he serves on the advisory boards of Meta Retail and the Google Retail Executive Board, and as a Non-Executive Director of Nobody's Child.
About LDAThe right conversation starts here.
Whether you're a board weighing your digital agenda, an investor testing a thesis, or a business that needs leadership now — we'd like to hear from you.
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