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Mike Cartwright

FD/CFO

I have many years of experience as CEO/CFO of international businesses with a track record of effective and entrepreneurial financial, commercial and strategic management. I have taken the opportunity in the last 10 years to embrace a portfolio career and now work with owners of SMEs to share that experience and help them to achieve their company and personal objectives.

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Track record highlights

  • Served as CEO or CFO in several private equity backed businesses in a variety of sectors and managed entry and exit transactions.
  • Drove the successful sale process for a defence contracting client as the most recent of at least 25 completed M&A transactions involving SMEs.
  • Managed the successful reversal of a technology business into a shell PLC and followed on with a rights issue.
  • Managed complex banking and pension fund relationships through a major business restructuring of a 90 year old manufacturing company.
  • Controlled daily cash management processes to enable client to maintain operations through a cash crisis.
  • Managed an offshore development project in India and implementation of a bespoke ERP system for large mail consolidator.

Sector Experience

  • Technology, Media & Telecoms: Software Development
  • Engineering: Worldwide Manufacture
  • Government & Defence: Defence Contracting
  • Manufacturing, Transport & Logistics: Complex logistics and transport
  • Services: Marketing Communications

Mike's specialist skills

Employee Incentives

Extensive experience of setting up and managing incentive programmes for employees including EMI schemes, growth shares and other long-term incentives.

Strategic Thinker

Identifying potential growth and development opportunities and working cross-company to implement these strategies for the benefit of all stakeholders.

Operational Finance

Ensuring that key controls and disciplines are in place to produce financial information on a timely basis and is an accurate basis on which to base decisions.

Corporate Finance

Working with clients to prepare and plan for exit or supporting and negotiating M&A activity, including valuations and earn out structures. Extensive experience of due diligence associated with buying and selling businesses.

Business Planning

Developing financial forecasts and longer-term plans, forecasting cash flows and evaluating business opportunities. Measuring performance against these plans and identifying opportunities for improvement.

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