John has spent the last 20 years advising numerous SME clients across several different sectors on a broad range of financial, taxation and accounting matters including fund raising, project management, growth management and business disposal. After taking a degree in Modern History at Oxford University, John qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse (now PwC) before joining the Corporate Finance department of Samuel Montagu & Co Ltd, part of the investment banking division of Midland Bank which was acquired by HSBC.

In the latter role, he acquired extensive experience of a range of corporate transactions in both the publicly quoted and privately owned sectors in the UK and overseas. After becoming the group finance director of one of the bank’s clients, John spent a number of years in senior financial positions within the SME sector before establishing himself as an independent consultant. John continues to act as a part time finance director for certain companies which he has co-founded.