A commercially astute and professionally qualified (ACMA) leader. Successful track record in health and social care, corporate finance, M&A, structured finance and private equity (PE), corporate restructuring, performance improvement, strategic growth and portfolio management. Proven team and stakeholder management skills, instilling commitment and passion to consistently create corporate value.Notable Achievements• Successfully designed and implemented a new market failure regime for England's health and social care regulator. Instrumental in leading market insight and policy discussions across Government, including Treasury, Cabinet Office and Department of Health officials and ministers.• A qualified chartered accountant with outstanding analytical and interpretation skills. Ability to simplify complexity to ensure that business risks and value drivers are fully understood. Track record of targeted, strategic growth.• Successfully originated and executed over 50 M&A transactions alongside private equity (PE), owner managed businesses, charitable organisations and PLCs. • Complete understanding of acquisition and disposal processes having led transactions, scoped and instructed diligence, created suitable capital structures, analysed historic and ongoing financial performance, benchmarked proposed valuations, undertaken returns analysis and negotiated legal agreements.• Led and resolved complex restructurings whilst managing a c.£750m portfolio of underperforming, high risk connections. Strong negotiation skills secured commensurate return for the risk being taken whilst still fostering collaborative relationships.• 15+years experience of dealing at Board level / with shareholders to build strong and enduring relationships.Core Competencies include:• Commercial awareness and strategic understanding• Corporate Finance• Merger & Acquisition (M&A)• Structured Finance & PE• Corporate Restructuring• Strategic growth & performance improvement