● Co-owner and one of the founding directors of ARA Homes Ltd, a private family-owned property development business delivering bespoke developments within the home counties and north east of London. Please visit our web site for more information - www.arahomes.co.uk.

● Controller for the Structured Interest Rate Derivatives trading desk, which managed a large portfolio of structured derivatives on behalf of the investment bank, as part of their market making activities.● Significant involvement in numerous process improvement and IT projects to improve the bank's systems, including the UAT design, testing and roll out of a new accounting system for the vanilla and structured interest rate derivative divisions of the bank. ● Management and ownership of the TriOptima OTC trade collapse process, which helped optimise the balance sheet in respect of the bank's OTC interest rate swap portfolio.

● Joined Barclays Capital on their rotation program for qualified Chartered Accountants, spending 8 months in the following areas: Equity Derivatives Product Control, Cost Control and Structured Capital Markets. ● Final position was within the Structured Capital Markets division (SCM). SCM's primary objective was setting up tax efficient structures for the bank and its clients, utilising a range of special purpose vehicles and derivative products. It was consistently one of the most profitable areas of the investment bank. ● Deal controller within the SCM team, responsible for the modelling, financial reporting, statutory and regulatory reporting of a number of structured deals.● Qualified as a CFA Charterholder while at Barclays Capital.

● Assistant Manager within the Assurance and Advisory division of Deloitte, managing teams of auditors to deliver statutory external audits for a wide range of corporate and institutional clients. ● Qualified as a Chartered Accountant while at Deloitte.