Highly successful Corporate Risk Specialist with comprehensive knowledge of restructuring, workout and credit across a wide variety of specialist asset classes and complex transactions. More than 20 years experience gained across a wide variety of relationship management, leadership or credit sanctioning roles in “business support/ intensive care” operations managing financially stressed or distressed companies or those strategically “non-core”. Acknowledged for strong problem solving, decision making, negotiating and stakeholder management skills.Key Areas of Expertise• Credit assessment and sanctioning of complex UK and International credits across mid and major corporates (c£25m to £Bn+ turnover), leveraged finance, project finance, commercial real estate, shipping, aviation, leasing, rail etc.• Mitigating risk both through management, restructuring and turnaround of businesses in financial difficulty and deleveraging the Bank’s balance sheet through active portfolio management including disposals of “non-core” individual assets or portfolios. • Established track record of building and managing highly performing teams and in motivating, coaching and developing staff particularly those new to restructuring and workout.• Self motivated, determined and achievement orientated professional who reacts readily to rapidly changing situations and has delivered at all levels.