Business Funding Solutions Consultants

Our business funding solutions consultants have a wealth of experience in obtaining business funding for companies across a wide variety of sectors.
 

Directors

JOHN COURTNEY A.I.B.C., M.A.B.S., MInstD

The Chairman of Strategy Consulting Limited, John Courtney has been a Company Director for over 20 years, including many years as Chairman or Managing Director in his own businesses which have ranged from sporting goods to agricultural chemicals. He has been a Non Executive Director for several SME's.

John has trained at The Academy of Business Strategy, and is an associate of the Institute of Business Consulting, and a member of the Institute of Directors. He is also a visiting lecturer on the MBA course at Cranfield University School of Management and is also a Judge in The National Business Awards sponsored by Orange.

John has run training seminars at board level on corporate strategy and made presentations to both large and small groups on funding strategies. He brings a wealth of experience, particularly in corporate strategy, funding, business planning, internet strategy and marketing strategy including new product development.

John is an approachable, practical, down to earth consultant comfortable in the board room of plc's as well as helping with implementation with smaller companies.

 

KATHRYN DAWSON BSc. (Hons), M.B.A.

Kathryn Dawson is the company's Marketing Director, and she is also an experienced and multi-skilled consultant in her own right. Prior to Strategy Consulting, Kath was head of Strategic Business Analysis and International Client Administration with a multinational corporation and operated in both the UK and USA.

Kath is mainly responsible for client, supplier and associate relationships. Her passion is to deliver effective Search Engine Optimisation for clients.

 

STEPHANIE ILES

Stephanie's talent is in Sales and Marketing Management. Her career spans almost 20 years and has been split between these two sectors, initially in Media and then in Freight Forwarding. Stephanie also spent 8 years assisting in the rebuilding of the largest Kuwaiti Newspaper's Commercial Press, she then worked in southern California working in Video Production and then in Freight Forwarding.

Stephanie assists our clients by heightening their awareness of the various funding and strategic tools that we work with to ensure that they have the optimum amount of options available to progress their business.

Associate Directors

DAVID RICH F.C.P.I.L, F.I.L.E.X.

David is an Associate Director with Strategy Consulting and an Associate with Beer & Partners. He has helped many businesses obtain funding via private equity investments and the Small Firm’s Loan Guarantee Scheme and is an expert at preparing business plans and forecasts for such applications. His wide expertise and experience are also used to help and advise businesses on how to grow and thrive in today’s competitive marketplace. He is also a business advisor with his activities centred mainly on the internet, software and insurance sectors.

David is a former lawyer with over 20 years in claims related professions, the majority of which was spent with the UK’s leading personal injury law firm. He has for many years regularly written articles on IT and business for various industry journals. He holds a number of board positions and has successfully built and sold a number of his own businesses.

 

Associates

IAN C PALMER Ph.D., B.Sc(Eng).

Ian Palmer has been a Company Director for over 30 years, including many years as Managing Director of Societe d’Audit Financier, a French finance house and has been involved in angel funding and bank finance for many years.

He successfully lead studies on systems in the UK, South America, the Middle and Far East and Africa. These studies have been carried out for: retail banks, merchant banks, and finance houses and his work has included the definition and implementation of a total strategy for specific financial applications. Palmer’s assignments have included: Banques Popular; Lazard Brothers; Unibanco de Brazil; Bank of Persia; Bank of Cyprus, and Bank of Moscow

As a public speaker, he has lead seminars and workshops at the British Civil Service College, South African Military Intelligence College, UNISA, Group 4 Securitas Training Limited and the Institute of Banking Studies. He has also written Financial Times reports "Financial Crime and the Internet" and "Modern Bank Networks and Security" as well as various papers and books on risk management methods and techniques, crime and the Internet. He was also a visiting lecturer on encryption and Internet Communication Technology at various universities and professional training organisations.

 

PETER KELLY FInst, SMM

Peter has more than 30 years of corporate experience, including European Managing Director and European Vice President roles, in leading companies in the Multimedia, Document and Training Management, Online Auctions, Telecommunications and Global Sourcing sectors.

This experience encompasses the creation of the start-up operations throughout Europe right through to final IPO or trade sale.

Peter specialises in helping other start-up and growth companies to prepare themselves for funding and to introduce them to sources of finance. In particular Peter uses his experience to guide companies through the business plan writing process and the challenge of not only presenting to investors but also of being well prepared for the unexpected questions that will follow.

 

ALAN COTTLE MCMI

Alan has more than 30 years experience in both large and SME businesses. He has worked in a FTSE 100 company at senior level and has started and built a specialist engineering business taking it to a turnover of £2m and 22 staff. The company provided equipment to multi national customers in the automotive, oil and marine sectors and was a significant exporter.
His experience includes business start-ups and acquisition, managing growth businesses, project management, logistics management and quality systems. He understands the issues facing growth businesses and strategic financial resource planning to achieve growth potential.
He has experience in raising funds for businesses with growth potential and can use his experience to guide companies through the fund raising process and support them through out the negotiation process with potential funders.
Our wide range of links within the business funding sector and Beer & Partners give us an extensive network of well qualified and highly experienced business funding solutions consultants, this allows us to provide an impressive service to our clients.

If you would like to know more about our range of corporate finance services, contact us today on 0845 838 0936 or drop us an email.