

To leverage 35+ years of board-level financial markets experience and advisory expertise to provide disciplined capital allocation, risk oversight, and strategic clarity for listed companies, private equity, and Family Offices.
Ability to manage, and take responsibility for, multimillion dollars in funds across various jurisdictions, industries and risk profiles
Independent, board-level insight across financial strategy, capital allocation, governance, and risk oversight.
Hard experience across many market cycles, early stage irregularities, intuitive, practical and lessons-learned judgment, careful and restrained thought in decision-making
Advisory leadership and high conviction calls based on thorough research
Proven valuation techniques (for example DCF, PV, scenario planning) in determining optimal capital allocation
Knowing when to walk away - the best deals are often the deals that are not done and may retrun later at a more affordable price
Stock market listed company analysis, listing of new firms to an exchange, advised on assessment and modelling for two leading private equity firms
Eight years as CIO with demanding return targets at a High New Worth Family office - international remit
Measuring risk, assessing people governance and creating scenarios for best and worst case scenarios
Highly considered by key role players such as Chairpersons, peers, Chief Executives, Chief Financial Officers, technical specialists such as engineers
Institute of Directors
Honors Degree in Economics
Outdoors, fitness, reading widely, previous horse riding enthusiast
Managing Director of Ingham Analytics, sought over many years for independent C-Suite-facing insights, no fear or favor, financial focus with a common-sense, no-nonsense approach, unafraid to question consensus views and defend my ground, instrumental in guiding companies to NOT do deals as egos often get in the way to the determent of pragmatism, understanding that if you have the right people the P&L takes care of itself - in other words governance is more about what happens when others are not looking, knowing what is right and proper, ethical and moral backbone, Member of the Institute of Directors and previous Chair and Vice Chair of the Investment Analysts Society and now Board lead for the Investment Analysts Journal in Oxford all require ethical conduct and attention to detail, been-there-done that experience - mistakes make for deeper learning provided you leran, knowing how to price risk and allocate capital with long-term return in mind, a combination of written skill together with a quantitative grasp, knowing what to look for in a set of financial statements - often dangers lurk in plain sight