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Suffolk

Provision of Part Time Finance Director Services, focusing on new business start ups.

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Providing business analysis, forecasting, budgeting and management accounts, also advice on claiming grants and tax credits.

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Providing part time FD services to VC backed SME transit tech company Ito World Limited which provides transit data to the world's largest journey planners, as well as transit hub solutions for transit authorities and operators. I prepared financial business plans, budgets and forecasts, worked with the investors on funding rounds, obtained government grants / R&D tax credits and improved financial processes.

Dublin And London

The Marcus Evans Group is an organization with 3,000 staff operating from 59 locations around the world.The Group provides global corporate marketing and B2B information services through its Summits and Conference divisions, as well as corporate hospitality through its THG division. A key part of my time there was to work on various acquisitions and business development projects to build the group, as well as to integrate the companies acquired.As Group FD I was responsible for management of all finance functions in the Marcus Evans group around the world. Finance teams were based in Dublin, London, Ipswich, Chicago, Kuala Lumpur, Berlin, Nicosia, Amsterdam, Prague, Paris, Madrid and Milan. During this period involved in the acquisition and integration of World Productions Ltd, a UK TV production company, also of the group's corporate jet.I was a Director of various group companies including Ipswich Town Football Club and Ipswich Town PLC 2007-2013.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for various projects within the Group Finance function, including:1. Acquisition of Ipswich Town Football Club Company Limited, December 2007.2. Acquisition of a majority stake in Ken McReddie Associates Limited, a leading talent agency representing TV and film actors, in October 2008.3. Various business development work including start up of new divisions such as accountancy training and market research.4. Work on various aborted acquisitions.5. Management of relationships with external auditors and the internal audit function.

London, United Kingdom

Project management of the acquisition of the Linguarama Group which has 21 language training centres in 6 European countries.Various group finance projects.

London And New York

A Senior Manager, first in Audit and later in the Transaction Services group including secondments to New York office 1997-1999 and to RBS Structured Finance group (leveraged finance lending to smaller VC houses or corporates) in London 2002 - 2003.

Fca

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Economics

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