I was a member of the working group for the new SIP 3 on Volutary Arrangements and have recently advised on the financial distress storyline for a well known TV soap show.
I am a member of the Investigation Committee, the Personal Insolvency Committee and the Practice Guidance Ethics and Standards Committee of the Insolvency Practitioners Association and am a Fellow of the Association of Business Recovery Professionals. In addition, I provide both technical and practical training on insolvency to a wide range of national advice agencies and employer groups across the UK Over the last 14 years I have contributed to the print media as well as featuring as expert advisor on a national TV show based upon personal debt. I started the Grantham office of Harrisons with Neil Harrison in 1999 and have continued to be involved in providing both formal insolvency and informal solutions such as refinancing, negotiated repayment plans etc, for a broad range of clients in manufacturing and leisure.Īt the same time I joined Payplan where I have developed my expertise in personal insolvency and am one of the leading providers of free debt advice to individuals and have been intrinsic to helping Payplan grow from taking 800 appointments a year in 2000 to over 6000 appointments in 2012. I qualified as an Insolvency Practitioner in 1996 at the Manchester office of BDO Stoy Hayward before moving to Deloitte in Nottingham and have a wide range of insolvency experience and was heavily involved in manufacturing and hotel and leisure industry insolvency in the 1990’s.