A, hopefully light-hearted, series of podcasts but with a serious message. Available across all social media – just search, listen and subscribe to Business Finance Matters.Raising the profile of business finance professionals who work tirelessly to provide small business owners with support and guidance to enable them to source the best-fit finance essential to help them survive and grow. With guests including business owners, accountants, lawyers and industry professionals, never has it been more important to provide a signpost to the UK wide network of business finance professionals who just know their stuff.

David is the founder of Number Eight Business Finance. With many years experience behind him he is highly regarded by many. David has worked in all areas of lending and therefore he is best placed to assist and advise any size of business. Statistically, David has a high success rate. Currently, he has sourced finance for over 95% of all businesses that he has worked with. This high level of success is comforting for all business owners and their advisors.

I am active and supportive in all areas of business finance including, Asset Finance, Invoice Finance, Peer-to-Peer, re-finance, business & commercial loans. In addition, I am also happy to work in a business finance advisory capacity for those businesses that need expert guidance and support as part of their funding structure for growth or transition.I work closely and have developed a number of business finance programmes in support of the increasing demand for finance with some of the UK's largest suppliers of capital equipment.Most vendors/re-sellers are working with a captive/own treasury lender or have a Joint Venture programme with an external provider/broker. The main focus now is to ensure that these vendors have an effective and efficient resource to access funds for their customers.My experience in credit underwriting and strong links to external underwriters, ensures that all credit applications are managed quickly and have the best opportunity to gain access to funding. This service and level of expertise is essential in this current economic climate. In support of businesses that require funding, I specialise in understanding my clients needs utilise the numerous options that are now available to companies from new start to multi-million turnover. In addition to my relationship with my funding partners, I am also able to offer direct funding through our parent company. The majority of my clients are have been retained for several years. Referrals from existing clients remains key to my growth and development. In addition, I work directly with a network of accountants, high street banks, advisors and consultants.I am also currently working in association with two proactive website initiatives that have been launched to support the growing requirement for businesses to understand and get quick access to a number of alternative finance products & providers.

Short-term contractor. Implementation of market awareness and key IFA/SIPPS relationships. Specialising in International Property & Fine Wine.Brand development, web site traffic growth, web site UI and advertising revenue. Developed brand strategy and statistics systems.Strategic Consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development.