Region: London West

I am a CFO with over 14 years experience in Media; Sony Pictures, Channel 4 & Discovery. Passionate about content and supporting creativity. Highly commercial with a focus on business improvement and partnership. Skilled at creating Strategy, Budgets & Forecasts as well as Management reports using dashboards and data visualisation. Developed pricing models, ROI analysis & scenario planning.

A very successful business leader with extensive C-level experience in fast growth, PE backed entrepreneurial businesses. I operated as a hand-on, influential and strategic Portfolio Finance Director/Chief Financial Officer and continuously seek expansion of my portfolio of high growth companies at early stages of development.

An entrepreneurial CFO with 20 years experience from Start Ups to PLCs. I joined the FD Centre in 2018 with a history of increasing profitability, sourcing external finance, raising credit lines and generating significant savings in operations. I have embraced the portfolio career, immersing myself in each client’s unique business culture, helping CEOs achieve their business and personal goals.

I am a highly motivated, energetic individual with over 30 years international financial and commercial experience with a proven track record of delivering business outcomes gained from a wide variety of companies from large corporations including Accenture and Oracle and, more recently in SME’s, working in close collaboration with MD’s, senior management and investors.

I am a highly commercial, strategic and operational finance leader with over 25 years’ experience of driving sustained business improvements, successful acquisitions and not least successful business sales. I have worked in privately owned and subsidiaries of listed businesses both in the UK and groups with overseas operations.

I have specialized in Services businesses, and specifically Marketing Services, helping them to start, grow, reshape, divest, invest and get investment. My strength is to finely balance analytical decision making with human centric implementation in complex stakeholder environments. Be it as strategic as exit strategies or as operational as defining and implementing reporting processes.

Before moving into industry, I qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte and remains a member of the Institute.

I am married with two daughters and more bikes than my wife approves of.

I assist business founders to scale, raise funds and exit. Each phase requires significant planning and using best-in-class techniques available to achieve business success. As a Chartered Accountant, I partner with business founders to understand their key objectives and to ensure finance delivers strategic value through the execution of agreed plans.

Experienced commercial and operational CFO/FD within the service sector, who works to deliver sustained business improvements. I have worked in owner managed SME’s, PE backed businesses and large multinationals, across many geographies. My passion for a portfolio career is to support clients in achieving their strategic, financial and operational goals.

I am a hands-on, commercially and strategically focussed Finance Director/CFO. I have successfully turned round distressed companies and driven businesses to significant growth through strong planning, financial and cash management. Significant M&A and funding experience across various sectors and sized companies (blue chips to start ups).