Experience

Ducketts Trusted Advisors

• United Kingdom
• Accounting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Advisor, Business Growth Team

  • Jul 2016 - Present



RBS

• United Kingdom
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director, Business Development

  • Jan 2014 - Jun 2016

  Experienced Corporate Banker with over 30 years banking experience, 25 of which within the Corporate/SME market place.My background is in business development and problem debt management. This experience enables me to structure innovative funding solutions, with the customer/client requirements at their heart.Supporting the growth aspirations of SME businesses, typically with a turnover of up to £25 million, in Staffordshire, Shropshire, The Black Country, Herefordshire & Worcestershire.Funding packages are bespoke for the client and are often a blended structure, utilising, conventional bank facilities, asset finance, invoice finance, trade finance and with 3rd parties.I work closely with the client, their Relationship Manager and professional advisers.

• Senior Relationship Manager, Specialised Relationship Management

  • Jan 2009 - Jan 2014

  Close relationship management of clients that were suffering various degrees of financial stress, to help turn the business around. I worked closely with the business owner, management and their professional advisers to achieve the clients preferred outcome, often with innovatively structured finance solutions with the Bank and with 3rd party lenders .

• Senior Business Development Manager

  • Jan 2000 - Dec 2008

  Providing finance to growing businesses, as part of the wider Midlands Business Development Team, working closely with commercial finance brokers, accountants and other introducers.