The company was a Financial Services Independent Brokerage, which was founded from scratch and eventually sold to the sales force.

As Group manager I was responsible for the running of a location of 120 plus personnel, dealing with recruitment, training, motivation of staff and managers, as well as marketing and budgeting.Allied Dunbar PLC were the third largest insurance company in the UK and part of British American Tobacco, one of the largest corporations in the world. I started as a trainee salesman and in my first year became the top producing associate for the Southeast of England. I maintained a top producing sales practice with this company even after entering management with them in 1989.Within 4 years of entering management I had reached the status of Group Manager, the youngest of 18 within the UK. I ran a location with 80 individual practices, most with their own administrators. There was a dedicated team of company secretarial support, plus 6 managers and under managers. I ran the location, the budget, the marketing at local and regional level, and was responsible for maintaining compliance to the satisfaction of head office auditors.

This was a start up business, which operated successfully and was eventually sold to a group of local businessmen.

Responsible along with the manager for the operation of an 11 table ship based casino travelling between Los Angeles and Mexico.