Advisor to Department of Trade and Industry, Government department responsible for trade, competition and industrial relations policy. Responsible for development and interpretation of policy with respect to industry, with particular emphasis on impact of financial regulation/practice on innovation in UK industry covering pensions, funding for SMEs and SQCs, investor relations, insolvency, GAAP, financial markets, Employers Liability Insurance, reporting and measurement of innovation.

Developed new type of stock exchnage VLEMs being developed by AWM and opening summer 2007.

Wrote and researcned report for MG Rover taskforce re collapse of Rover to support their final report to HMG and influence insolvency policy development.

Commisioned and managed large scale research into impact of national compulsary occupational pension scheme on employers.

Persauded DTI SOS to delay implementation of FRS 17 for 12 months.

Championed and authored a best practice web site on Investor relation for plcs in partnership with Investor Relations Society





· Persuaded DTI, through analysis and research of the company pensions crisis, to delay the implementation of FRS17 to allow more time for companies to adapt to the changing pension reporting requirements

Distributor, installer and maintainer of business critical intranet systems. Turnover £6million Employees 35. Responsible for developing a business plan that would allow the refinancing of the business. Venture capital backed.

Initiated, negotiated and implemented a new company invoice discounting agreement to replace the existing expensive contract that reduced interest fees by 20% per annum.

Pursuing MBO/MBI opportuntities and advising other management teams

Manufacturer of consumer products. Turnover £4 million Employees 40
Responsible for transport, accounting and purchasing of raw materials
Raised £1.8 million in finance from a Venture Capital Fund to finance the management buy in of Olaf Johnson Ltd, by Highgel Ltd, a profitable manufacturing company.

UK’s primary scheduled coach transport network operator with extensive operations in Europe in conjunction with partners. Turnover £120 million. Employees 1100. Responsible for all aspects of financial management of the group.

Negotiated, managed and completed all aspects of the successful management buy out of National Express Ltd including raising £14 million of finance from a Venture Capital fund.

Persuaded the board to exploit the consolidation of the UK bus industry to seek a buyer for National Express Group Ltd, subsequently negotiated, managed and completed the sale securing a return of 39 times the initial investment for the management buy out team.

Conceived, managed and executed the sale of a loss making subsidiary to its management involving an innovative deferred payment scheme that resulted in a book profit on disposal for the group.

Developed and implemented a complex sales forecasting system to generate accurate debtor figures and supported by this system negotiated and established bad debt insurance cover for £12 million of debts that underpinned the group’s main borrowings.

Developed, formulated and executed an opportunity for the group to acquire in depth financial and operational knowledge of its sub contractors by supporting the creation through a management buy out, partly funded by the group, of four such sub contractors from their parent.

Negotiated and managed the sale of the Group’s stake in the above companies realising a profit of £2 million against an initial investment of £200,000 whilst maintaining strong and trusting relationships with the owners.

Initiated, devised and implemented a plan to create a vehicle leasing company, with a lease book of £140 million, achieving three primary objectives of; facilitating the introduction of a new coach fleet and changed operating contracts, reducing the group’s tax charge and creating a profitable joint venture.

Business services group with two major divisions; workwear rental and building contracting services. Turnover £30million Employees 200
Responsible for all aspects of financial management of the division.

Initiated and negotiated Venture Capital support for the bid by management for the workwear rental division of the Group.