Experience

Ethos Asset Management INC.

• United States
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Associate

  • Feb 2023 - Present

  Retained by Ethos Asset Management to provide specialist advice to projects seeking debt finance. Retained by Ethos Asset Management to provide specialist advice to projects seeking debt finance.



Integrated Accounting Specialists Ltd

• Managing Director

  • Dec 2019 - Present

  Providing specialist project finance services and managing the FD Executive Solutions brand which provides part-time / portfolio finance director services. Providing specialist project finance services and managing the FD Executive Solutions brand which provides part-time / portfolio finance director services.



FD Executive Solutions

• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing Director

  • Jul 2019 - Present

  Part time FDs – crucial to take your business to the next level. Providing part-time Financial Director and Business Growth/Succession and Exit services to the SME community. Three reasons why you need a part-time Finance Director 1. Growth ambitions 2. Cashflow and financial management concerns 3. Increase the value of your business We provide part-time Finance Directors for significantly less than a full-time finance professional and are confident that the overall impact with be at worst cost neutral given the benefits that our highly experienced team can provide. Show less



Geared Logic Ltd

• Business Consulting and Services

• Managing Director

  • Mar 2015 - Feb 2023

  Providing Finance / Commercial / Sales Director interim, part-time or consultancy services. Providing Finance / Commercial / Sales Director interim, part-time or consultancy services.



Mount Parnassus

• United Kingdom
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director - Generating Value for Shareholders

  • 2017 - Feb 2019

  Mount Parnassus has been helping organisations to transform, grow, build credible succession plans and go on to successful sales. We offer two services: Brokerage: Over the next few years a huge number of baby boomers will be exiting their businesses and over £1 Trillion is needed to make this happen. We create a market for those wishing to exit now with the potential for a greater realisable value. Don’t be at the back of the queue. Strategic planning and implementation: Exit may not be on the immediate horizon, however all organisations need to have a really good understanding of where they need or want to head. We live in increasingly challenging times and the ability to react and be flexible has never been so important. Implement a good strategic plan with a difference. We take great pride in the organisations that we help and our relationships are rarely short-lived. Show less



Forth Valley Chamber of Commerce

• United Kingdom
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Board Member

  • Nov 2016 - May 2018

  Helping grow and develop the Chamber to attract new members, develop and grow services to the benefit of businesses in the Forth Valley area.

• Chairman of Board of Directors - Building a Stronger Business Community

  • Nov 2016 - Apr 2018

  Providing board direction, strategy and vision to promote Forth Valley Chamber of Commerce’s strategic objectives in supporting, developing and growing local businesses.



Academy for Chief Executives Scotland

• Academy Chairman Scotland - Unlocking the Potential of Business Leaders

  • Apr 2015 - Apr 2018

  We believe in improving lives by unlocking the potential of every business leader. We deliver this by fast track learning via three mechanisms; world class speakers, peer to peer learning with other successful business leaders and one to one coaching, mentoring and guidance. Ultimately we enable successful business leaders to achieve more from themselves and their business. My role is to develop the Academy in Scotland and help businesses and leaders attain the potential they have the capability to achieve. Show less



Carrier Transicold Europe

• France
• Wholesale
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing Director Northern Europe

  • Jun 2013 - Mar 2015

  Full P&L responsibility for the United Kingdom, Poland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway as well as country responsibility for Ireland and Finland, working across a diverse range of cultures and business environments, but still delivering success.

• Managing Director

  • Sep 2006 - Mar 2015

  Building and maintaining key customer and industry relationships, identifying and growing value both by developing and promoting key unique selling points. Developing people and teams to deliver successful growth across all key indicators.

• Finance Director

  • Nov 2003 - Sep 2006

  Carrier Transicold supplies capital equipment and maintenance services into the UK logistics sector, and principally direct to the major food retailers. Interacting at all levels of the business with key internal and external stakeholders and providing commercial guidance to develop and grow.



Carrier Trustee Ltd

• Trustee Director

  • Jul 2004 - Mar 2015

  Acting as a trustee board member, and latterly as Chairman to the group defined benefit pension plan. Executing all statutory obligations including triennial valuations, statement of investment principles, investment strategy, annual accounts and attending quarterly trustee meetings. Registered as a trustee with the Pensions Regulator and have completed all online training modules for Defined Benefit Pension fund management. Acting as a trustee board member, and latterly as Chairman to the group defined benefit pension plan. Executing all statutory obligations including triennial valuations, statement of investment principles, investment strategy, annual accounts and attending quarterly trustee meetings. Registered as a trustee with the Pensions Regulator and have completed all online training modules for Defined Benefit Pension fund management.



Kverneland Group Italy

• Finance Director

  • Nov 1999 - Feb 2003

  Working in Modena Northern Italy my principal role was to assist a recently acquired family business, manufacturing agricultural equipment, to integrate into the group. Adapting processes and controls to local fiscal conditions as well as providing commercial guidance. Key takeaway was generating success by understanding the working culture and environment and adapting my style and approach, developing an ability to operate across different cultures and languages.

• Finance Director

  • Nov 1994 - Nov 1999

  First board member role in a business selling group manufactured capital equipment and parts into the UK Agricultural sector. Focussing on strong balance sheet management as well as providing commercial guidance across all areas of the business.