“Having passed retirement age I felt it was time to pass on my knowledge to other business owners. I realised I could do more to stop others from making some of the mistakes I have learned from making over the past 30 years and those I have seen others make and the consequences that followed. I am on a mission to help as many small business’s as possible give their owners and families the lifestyle and success they work so hard to achieve”
About me in detail.
A qualified Corporate Banker ( Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers ) by profession with over 30 years of experience of helping Small & Medium Sized Business’. The last 15 years of my business life spent working in marketing and branding design across a whole range of business but specifically across the leisure and food sectors.
After a career with NatWest and then LloydsTSB almost all spent in managing loans to small business in head office departments and major branches I decided to leave banking as I became frustrated with the banks lack of support for small business’ and that was as long ago as 1989!
I set up my own Business Consultancy practice and went through the 1990s helping many businesses from sole traders to multi-million pound turnover companies both through good times and bad. I have helped and worked with business owners across almost every trade sector and helped bring many projects to fruition. I worked with a major national accountancy practice as one of their approved company doctors and have financially engineered many management buy outs and assisted a lot of corporate acquisitions.
In early 2000 set up my own property development company and had some great times before the Banking Crisis hit in 2007 & 2008 and so I am well aware of how to make money and also what can go wrong and spiral out of all control, and how you can lose a lot of money.
Along the way I have helped many business owners to make their activities cash generative and I have guided them through the many steps required to acquire and protect assets for the future.
Over the years I have considered sales and marketing expertise to be the essential ingredient alongside strong financial management to the success of any venture.
I strongly believe that Sales / Finance / Control are the three key factors to success but none of these are possible without a strong product or service with a clear market place.
Many good businesses achieve only 60% of their potential the key is being able to see how to add the extra 40%. It’s often a lot simpler than people think and if they start looking in the right places a constantly struggling entity can easily move forward and become a cash generative focused business.
Been running your business for so long that you know everything about it but need someone from outside to view it differently and help unlock its potential?
Why wait to change? Get in touch.