Career highlights
- 1999: Managing Director of Portland Business Recovery since 1999.
- Rescued AC Cars through a Company Voluntary Arrangement.
- Rescued the Morning Star Newspaper without a break in daily national publication.
- 2009/10: National President of the leading Insolvency Regulator, The Insolvency Practitioners Association 2009/10.
- 2010: Represented local trade creditors in the two Administrations of Portsmouth Football Club.
- Administrator and subsequently Supervisor of Salisbury Football Club.
- Appointed to approximately 150 corporate cases a year, with the overwhelming vast majority resulting in a continuing business.
Why I do what I do
Being an Insolvency Practitioner is a challenging occupation, as is being Managing Director of a business, so I fully appreciate the pressures placed on all small and medium sized businesses.
Our professional integrity and independence is important to us. We constantly are required to balance the interests of diverse parties and we find our natural inclination towards creating win/win situations helps to provide the best outcome. I enjoy working with debtors and creditors to devise workable strategies to solve problems and persuading any dissenting parties through the power of sound commercial argument to work together for the common good.
We find honest, straightforward advice, mixed with common sense, pragmatism and compassion, to be the formula that defines the culture of our business and which sets us apart.
