# Morgan Sheldon > Independent adviser and non-executive. Risk, strategy and how businesses behave under pressure. Based in England. ## Who Morgan Sheldon is an independent adviser and non-executive who takes board and advisory seats, standing retainers and commissioned questions on risk, strategy and governance. He is a former priority crime police officer, one of fewer than fifty Authorised High Court Enforcement Officers in England and Wales (appointed by the Lord Chancellor in 2021), and a founder of businesses in regulated services, publishing, technology and digital assets. ## Record - Policing: Hampshire Constabulary 2005 to 2011, Acting Sergeant, CID national investigators exam, two commendations. - Companies: founded, grew and sold several small businesses from 2010; Training and Compliance Manager for a national enforcement group. - Regulated services: Authorised High Court Enforcement Officer since 2021. - Publishing and data: built and ran the Justice Index, fifteen reference sites on the justice system of England and Wales, eleven million legal data entities checked against the statute. It reached over one hundred thousand readers a month. - Technology: since 2024 has designed, written and run production AI systems: research agents that read filings and statute, on-chain monitors that read token contracts directly, and verification pipelines that check published figures against their source. - Digital assets: gave evidence to the Crypto and Digital Assets APPG in 2022; spoke at NFT London 2022 on global crypto regulation; in the sector since 2018; built a register of what holders of tokenised stocks actually own. - Advisory: board and advisory seats, standing retainers and single commissioned questions, on risk, strategy and governance. ## Credentials Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership (2026). Level 7 Diploma in Risk Management (2026). ICA Certificate in Anti Money Laundering, Distinction (2025). Henley Business School Executive Hedge Fund Programme (2025). Oxford Saïd Business School Artificial Intelligence Programme (2025). Level 6 Paralegal Practice in Debt Recovery, Paralegal of the Year 2020. MBA in progress, Wrexham University. Memberships: FCICM, FRSA, MLIBF, CILEX Paralegal, HCEOA. ## How he works - Board or advisory seat: non-executive director or adviser, annual appointment, two or three at a time. - Standing retainer: a written quarterly view on risk and direction plus a handful of meetings a year. - Commissioned question: one decision, one report, fixed fee. ## Point of view Most of what goes wrong in a business is visible months ahead and ignored until it is weeks away. The pattern is written up at https://consequencehorizon.com. ## Links - https://sheldon.uk/ (this page) - https://consequencehorizon.com Contact is by the form on https://sheldon.uk/ only.