Chris is a director of the business. Chris trained with KPMG and also worked at Ernst and Young and has forty years’ experience as an adviser to and finance director in both public and private companies, specialising in proving support to SME’s and their owners over the past 15 years. He started his FD career at a listed aerospace and defence company, before moving on to work in venture capital backed businesses in the healthcare, FMCG and industrial product and services sectors.
Chris oversees the work of the Enterprise FD team, principally in London and the south east and is responsible for business development in the region. Acting directly as FD for some of the firm’s clients and helping them to achieve their ambitions, he focuses his expertise on business planning and strategy, cashflow management and corporate finance and merger and acquisition activity for entrepreneurial businesses ranging in size from start-up to £50m turnover.
As well as supporting two successful MBO’s and two trade sales his achievements include securing the worlds (then) largest (non-property) crowd funded loan.