Paul: Interim CEO, CFO and Financial Director

Whether he is acting as an interim CEO or CFO, Paul gets results fast in new situations. He has succeeded with some of the toughest management challenges – from launching start-ups through to managing receivership sales.

Interim Career Highlights

• As CEO he restructured a textile recycling company.
• He enhanced critical systems, stabilised staff morale and established procedures and controls when CEO of a hospice.
• His CFO role at a software start-up involved developing the business model and structure prior to seed funding.
• He reviewed the whole operation when CEO of a national charity.
• He kept an insolvent publishing firm afloat, pending receivership sale, then worked with the new owners integrating the business into a new group.
• Was Chief Executive during the restructure of a home improvement agency.
• Set up an international structure and planned IT for an international network marketing company.
• As Finance Director of a training company with 160 staff and 60 locations – he established management reporting, budgeting and cost control, reviewed potential acquisitions and negotiated bank funding.

Permanent Roles

• While Finance Director of a Training and Enterprise Council, he had to establish quickly the systems and procedures for what was essentially a start-up that was operating at full-scale – turnover £35m, 160 staff, five locations.
• A chartered accountant, Paul rose through the ranks of Ernst & Young where he managed audits, acquisitions, disposals, international groups and flotations.