Boutique Consulting · Financial Services

Your Projects Report Green.

Your Portfolio Is Bleeding.

We bring senior delivery leadership. Not slide decks, not junior teams.

Former bank executives who deliver results, not just oversight.

How We Help

Too complex for freelancers, too small for a Big4 A-team?

That's exactly where we deliver the most value.

Five approaches, based on what we've seen work across hundreds of projects in financial services.

Project Health Check

Is your most critical project actually on track?

A 5–10 day operational diagnostic of your highest-risk initiative. We don't review your Gantt charts. We assess the gap between what leadership sees and what's actually happening on the ground. You get a clear verdict: what to fix, what to kill, what to double down on.

Portfolio DiagnosticRisk AssessmentGovernance ReviewAI Readiness ModuleTeam Assessment

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PMO as a Service

Your PMO tracks status. Ours drives outcomes.

Most PMOs are expensive reporting functions. They tell you a project is failing three weeks after everyone already knows. We embed senior programme leadership that intervenes early, kills zombie projects, and holds delivery teams accountable to business outcomes, not process compliance.

PMO Setup & OperationsPortfolio GovernanceProject TurnaroundCrisis Management

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IT Ops Managed Services

Stop recruiting. Start operating.

Your L2/L3 seats have been open for months. Your legacy applications need support you can't hire for. We take full operational ownership: staffing, uptime, and quality become our problem, so your CTO can focus on strategy instead of recruitment.

Application Support L2/L3Managed OperationsLegacy System SupportVendor Transition

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Compliance as a Service

Regulators want proof, not promises. We run the programme.

NIS2 is enforceable. DORA is live. Your board is asking if you’re ready, and ‘we have a firewall’ isn’t an answer. We embed senior security and compliance leadership that builds the operating model, implements the controls, and produces the evidence that auditors and regulators actually accept.

NIS2 & DORA ReadinessSecurity Programme OperationsRegulatory EvidenceAI Security

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Talent Services

The right people in the right seats. Not just CVs in your inbox.

Most recruitment solves a procurement problem: match keywords, fill the seat. That works for commodity roles. It fails completely for the positions that determine whether your strategy succeeds. We cover the full cycle: executive search, specialist sourcing, team assessment, and development programmes that make your investment in people pay off. Led by one of LinkedIn’s Top Recruiters with 10+ years in financial services talent strategy.

Executive SearchTalent SourcingAssessment & Development

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25+

Years of C-level and operational experience

600+

Team members managed across CEE

€50M+

Programme portfolios delivered and optimised

20+

Years delivering in financial services and energy

Who We Are

We've Sat in Your Chair.

Epity was founded by executives who've run the operations you're trying to fix. Tom Stena spent years as a bank COO. Jaroslav Mäsiar delivered major portfolio programmes for banking groups across CEE. When we walk into your organisation, we don't need a briefing on how banks work.

Jaroslav Mäsiar

Delivery & Portfolio Management

Former Head of Project Management at a major CEE banking group, leading 100 people, 5 teams, group-wide portfolio delivery. Led a 300+ person core banking transformation programme. Now leads security and compliance operations for a major European financial services group. 20+ years turning complex IT portfolios from chaos into structured delivery. The leader clients call when projects go red.

Tom Stena

Strategy & Operations

Former board-level COO and CIO across one of CEE's largest banking groups, leading 600+ people, 3 countries, group-wide IT portfolio. Led core banking transformations, built nearshore centres from scratch, and ran banking operations end-to-end. 25+ years as a C-level delivery leader. Knows what it takes to run a bank, not just advise one.

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Tomáš Krebs

People & Talent Strategy

One of LinkedIn’s Top Recruiters. 10+ years in talent acquisition, executive search, and cultural and organisational design. Former Head of Talent Acquisition at Slovakia’s largest tech innovation ecosystem. Finds the right people, assesses whether they’ll deliver, and builds the programmes that keep them.

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Is This You?

Recognise Any of This?

Your transformation programme started 6 months ago. Nothing has shipped.

→ Health Check

You're hiring a Head of PMO for the third time.

→ PMO as a Service

Your L2/L3 application support roles have been open for 4+ months.

→ IT Ops Managed Services

Your board gets polished RAG reports. You get surprises.

→ Health Check

You just replaced your CEO or COO. The portfolio needs a fresh assessment.

→ Health Check

Your outsourcing vendor is underperforming and you're considering a switch.

→ IT Ops Managed Services

Your CTO search has been open for four months and the shortlist keeps resetting.

→ Talent Services

Your board just asked who owns NIS2 compliance. Nobody raised their hand.

→ Compliance as a Service

If any of these sound familiar, a conversation with us will be worth your time.

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See Where You Stand

Answer targeted questions about your project portfolio across six dimensions of delivery health. Get an honest score with specific recommendations. Takes under 15 minutes. Completely free.

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