Neil Bath Email & Phone Number

Southampton, England, United Kingdom

UK, East Caribbean, Switzerland

• WinbeQ is a Financial and Business Consultancy.
• Manage the sale of a portfolio of hotels in the Swiss Alps - developed sales materials, financials, researching potential investors, contacts, negotiating and contract process;
• Manage the sale of two Bequia based businesses, a sailing magazine and a building supplier/timber merchant;
• Managed development and construction of luxury, contemporary villa on Bequia;
• Acted as CFO for Sotheby’s Real Estate in Eastern Caribbean providing investment advisory, cashflow management, accounting, compliance and regulatory function;
• Act as Non-Exec Director for start up acquisition company in Healthcare sector. Review of acquisition targets. Negotiation with sellers. Assistance with raising finance for leveraged acquisitions;

• Floor51 Ltd ( also trading as SignalScore) is a growth company in the mobile telco software / security / data analysis sector.
• Review / development of strategy, forecasts and assistance with re-organisation with a view to raising investment and profitable exit within 5 years;

• Goldwater Health is a start-up ‘buy and build’ company in the Health Care sector.
• Review of acquisition targets;
• Negotiation with sellers;
• Assistance with raising finance for leveraged acquisitions.

• Routetrader Ltd is a London based telco / fintech company.
• Refinancing and set a strategy with a target of restoring shareholder value for exit;
• Mentoring and guidance for management then changed executive management.

Fareham, UK

• Telsis – South UK is providing service management software engineering expertise and cloud contact centre solutions.
• Appointed by Barclays (via PwC Turnaround Panel ) to assist the Chairman/Board;
• Organised the cash-flow and improved forecasting, restoring the credibility with the bank, enabling facilities to be renewed to Q3/2011, and then to Q3/2013;
• Obtained cost reductions of £8M per annum, through subsidiary reorganisations;
• Managed the sale of surplus property significantly reducing borrowings;
• Returned the company to profitability;

• Les Bains Consultancy (now WinbeQ) is a Financial and Business Consultancy.Private Property Development Company, Hampshire:
• Performed a company analysis and advised Directors on banking finance, project completion and negotiation of options;Rhyme / 3i Infotec, London (major worldwide software group):
• Worked for CEO Western Europe on the possible acquisition of a competitor;
• Prepared presentation for the Global CEO, and acquisition was approved;
• Prepared management for potential negotiations by ‘war gaming’ various scenarios;AXA Health, Bristol (global health insurance company):
• Reviewed operations / P&L's for certain products on behalf of Divisional MD following re-organisation;

• Brewin Dolphin Ltd is UK's largest private client fund manager.
• Managed the IS consisting of all support services, IT, Program Office, Data Control and Client Reporting having 190 staff under management;
• Developed Short, medium and long-term strategic plans approved by the Board prior to implementation;
• Managed major strands: management organisation and development, budget and project control, BCP/DR, infrastructure refresh for reliability and resilience, rationalisation of locations and delivery of a new front office.
• Implemented programs (Prince2 and ITIL) to move the organisation towards ‘best practice’.

• Set up and recruited a ‘Splits’ team of 35+ professionals to deal with a high-profile complaints issue;
• Set a tight deadline to achieve the objective of responding to all complaints, whilst dealing with all the legal issues, and establishing credibility with the FSA, Financial Ombudsman Service, client executives and.
• Helped establish the compensation fund ‘Funds Distribution Limited’;
• Led a project involving sending new agreements and questionnaires to 150,000+ clients, bringing the databases up to date, increasing access to data, strengthening controls and providing business development.
• Responsible for relocation of London HQ to new premises to a very tight timetable.

• Information Services - invited to take charge of Information Technology (50+ staff; complex environment consisting of mainframe and 200+ open system servers, 700+ desktops), to ensure operational stability across front.
• Set out a strategy to move towards best practice (e.g. for areas such as change control, business continuity / disaster recovery) so that support could be improved, downtime reduced and costs saved;
• Implemented planning processes to ensure capital and staff resources used in a cost effective manner (e.g. ‘refreshing’ desktops and infrastructure);
• Delivered significant savings in market data services;
• Reorganised the Division, to accommodate a requirement to reduce headcount (by 20%) and also to create reporting lines to enable implementation of new infrastructure and software technologies; Finance / Operations.
• Reduced headcount, whilst improving efficiency / effectiveness;

Greater New York City Area

Firstly Head of Audit for the world apart from USA, and then given responsibility for entire function of the Fortune 500 company. Full scope responsibility including reporting to Audit Committee

After appointment as UK Partner, seconded to UAE (2 offices, 100+ staff). Responsible for audit and management consultancy assignments (mainly IT, HR and business strategy) to a wide client portfolio in both Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Previously had been seconded from the London region as a local Partner to Zambia (3 offices, 120 staff) to provide technical.

Aca, Fca, Accounting And Finance

Phd, Physiology

B.Sc, Applied Biology