Tony helps private equity and venture capital companies to maximise financial returns through proactive and hard-nosed people management – both within their own business and in their portfolio companies.He focuses on the massive opportunities to improve financial returns through:• “People audits” to benchmark current activity and prioritise opportunities to add financial value• Integrated people strategies to drive effectiveness across investment teams and portfolio investments• Recruitment, including psychometric profiling• Developing growth plans to ensure people management strategy and operations deliver financial objectives• Individual and team talent management including career planning, leadership development (and exiting)• Executive Coaching / Mentoring• HR due diligence on potential investments• Organisation design and the development of agile working practices• Shared and faster learning across portfolio companies Tony has had over 50 coaching / mentoring relationships, many at Chief Executive level.

Formerly Joint Managing Director and now helping my wife Milica to develop our own PPP portfolio. I am also continuing coaching and mentoring activities (see below).PPP provides successful business people with opportunities to achieve lifelong income and financial security through an active investment that is structured to generate substantial income and dramatically improve your quality of life. By enabling you to make your net worth (including equity in your own home) work for you, you will have the opportunity to re-evaluate your lifestyle and make long term choices that will allow you to live the rest of your days as you wish, happy. PPP provides every partner with the support needed to develop your specialist residential property portfolio so you can supplement / or replace your current income. For over 200 families it is already securing their financial future and delivering a substantial increased income that they personally control.If you would like to know more about PPP, please email me - tonybennett900@gmail.com PPP is great for people who (as examples): - Are bored, frustrated or unfulfilled with their current roles whether in corporate life, self-employment or as wives and mothers. - Have been made redundant & are looking for a new business or do not want to re-enter corporate life - Have insufficient pension provision .... and it's great fun as well!Often PPP become a "family business" with different roles being played at different times across and down the generations.

Local Mind - affiliated to Mind. Based in Woking and working across Surrey.Delivering a wide range of mental health and well-being activity including anxiety and depression support groups, 1 to 1 talking, drop-ins, creative and physical activities and well-being in the workplace.In need of further financial support to help with our very rapid growth to meet the ever increasing mental health needs of our community.

Consultant, Interim manager, Adviser, Coach Mentor and public speaker* Using people management and strategic expertise to deliver effective change management and to help organisations and individuals to maximise their performance.* Working with PE and VC companies on all aspects of people management, including with their portfolio companies.* Coaching and mentoring of many Chief Executives, managers and graduates. Member of Kilfinan Group – mentoring not-for-profit Chief Executives.* Major interim assignments: * Chief Executive of Action Planning (the charity sector’s largest management consultancy (2010 – 2012). * Chief Executive of Clubs for Young People (2009 -2010). * Development Director - Cambridge Tutors College (2015-2016)* Consultancy assignments included large companies (Hertz and 3 Mobile), start ups (Good Boss and Jet2 Airline) and charities (Princes Trust, Action Planning and Clubs for Young People).

An interim director position on the Senior Leadership Team (having previously been a Trustee and Chair of Council).Delivering a range of organisational improvements including new ways to recruit overseas students, sourcing and opening a new Boarding House, a number of HR related projects and development of a 3 year strategy and finance plan.Cambridge Tutors College (CTC London) is an international independent sixth form college dedicated to the achievement of academic excellence and within an adult focused environment. Our aim is to foster in each student the academic success, life skills and self-confidence to be independent learners in higher education and to achieve their best in all life’s challenges.

Travel agency with 5,000 employees, 1000 outlets and turnover of £1billion +* Led fundamental transformation which turned loss-making acquisitions into the leading company for both profitability and customer service.* Successfully rolled out an award winning new Matchmaker computer system across 800 outlets and 5000 people in 2 months with immediate impact on sales and profit.Director of Development and Distribution – Airtours UKLG (1997 – 2000) - took on additional UK wide responsibilities for ecommerce and telephone centres, acquisitions and NED for tour operating businesses

Led strategy review which transformed a struggling worldwide business and leisure travel agent into a highly successful vertically integrated European travel company. Company value increased 10 fold in 13 years. Turned round dramatic market share fall in UK Retail business and improved profitability. Realised the full potential of underdeveloped Foreign Exchange business.

Cut my marketing teeth with the amazing set of Rowntree Nestle brands which include Kit Kat, Quality Street, Smarties - and my wife's personal favourite - Munchies!!