Jeff Holder

A highly experienced interim CRO / CEO / independent Chairman and non-exec Director. He is a professionally qualified chartered accountant (ICAEW - KPMG trained) and has operated in a range of executive, non-executive and investment roles. He is a member of the Institute for Turnaround.

Jeff has a proven track record of restructuring across a wide range of sectors including waste, energy & renewables, manufacturing, support services, engineering and reprocessing, legal services, construction, housebuilding and building products, fire & security, retail, financial services, distribution / logistics, companion diagnostics, software, technology and the pub trade.

Jeff has extensive experience of operation and financial restructuring, stakeholder management, M&A, fundraising and forecasting - typically operating in stressed and turnaround situations.

Jeff works closely with professional advisors, owner-managed businesses, banks, private equity investors and other stakeholders.

Shahin Gulamali

Specialist in SME and family owned businesses experiencing stress or distress. Track record in delivering value in a short time, creating sustainable change.

Support management teams to achieve their financial outcomes through operational improvements. Establish processes, controls, systems and reporting that is easy to implement and use by company staff to ensure adoption and longer term sustainability.

Roles - Interim Finance Director, working capital improvement, cash management. Sector experience – legal, recruitment, technology and media, property, hotel and leisure, retailing, restaurants and bars.

English National. Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales and Member of the Institute for Turnaround.

Alison Davidson

Alison has over 20 years’ experience within the HR field, firstly working as an internal HR partner and more recently as a consultant, handling both retained business and project assignments.

Alison has worked with client companies across a diverse range of sectors including fashion, retail/Etail, car dealership franchises, civil engineering, financial services, green energy, recruitment outsourcing/talent management.

Whilst she has generalist experience, Alison’s main focus is on employment law related matters, with a particular emphasis on the restructuring of teams and redundancy programme management.

Alison is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, a business studies graduate and a British Psychological Society Test User (occupational & personality).

Aaron Reeves

Aaron has been helping businesses bring clarity to their financial performance for the past decade.

Having qualified ACCA with KPMG and then worked within Grant Thornton's restructuring and business performance teams he has experience across a range of industries and sectors.

His focus is on cash management and forecasting, focused on improving business performance and stability.

Martin Hovard

Martin has 20 years experience as a Finance Director. The last 13 years have been spent as an Interim Finance Director working in distressed, underperforming SME’s in a range of industry sectors including, manufacturing, engineering, chemicals, construction, marketing communications, printing, property maintenance, after sales service.

All of the assignments over the last 13 years have required cash crisis stabilisation, rigorous short term cash forecasting, creditor management and turnaround planning with identified steps to recovery that address both financial and operational weaknesses.

Martin is a member of the Institute for Turnaround, is a Chartered Accountant and holds a BSc in Chemical Engineering

Joanne Richardson

Jo has experience of working in Private Equity and distressed businesses both pre and post-acquisition. Her tenacious personality has seen her succeed in some of the most difficult and challenging environments. Whilst she can and has turned her hand to all industries, she has a real passion and understanding of engineering and construction sectors

Strong interpersonal skills, confident whether in the board room or with sleeves rolled up in the detail. Very well respected. Tremendous integrity when delivering programmes of change including redundancy.

A reputation for strong systems, processes and controls, instilling control in businesses where previously it was non-existent. Jo has implemented fully integrated ERP systems in many businesses. She is usually at the forefront of positive change in an organisation.

Jo has negotiated and managed ABL facilities.

Jo has a wide breadth of experience spanning Finance, HR, IT and Company Secretary duties and has the ability to add value to any business, with strong references to back this up.

Chartered Management Accountant.