Although already fully-qualified as a corporate and personal recovery specialist with 16 years experience, David recently completed a Manchester Business School MBA. He is also a Member of the Institute of Directors, The Association of MBAs, The Turnaround Management Association, The Insolvency Practitioners Association and The Association of Business Recovery Professionals. David’s principal activity is now as a business turnaround practitioner.
As a business recovery specialist, he has three main skillsets – commercial, legal and financial. The MBA substantially augments all three of these areas and introduces other skills that are arguably as important to business recovery – strategy, human resources, marketing and business process analysis.
David integrates the various MBA disciplines into his overall philosophy so that – when advising businesses in distress – the financials alone are merely the tip of the iceberg. More importantly, he believes in acting proactively and planning before others make plans for you as a stakeholder.
David is a good communicator and is forthright in his views. He has extensive experience in business rescue and recovery, including two of the top six accountancy firms – Ernst & Young and BDO Stoy Hayward – in addition to Cooper-Parry and several niche recovery practices.
David has a calm, reflective way of going about projects that breeds confidence. He has the turnaround professional’s project orientation and sense of urgency. He will want to get on with the job and roll up his shirt sleeves to do so.
He has good contacts in the North West and beyond and is well-regarded as a professional of integrity, credibility and common sense.
David is married with four children and lives in Hale, Cheshire. He is a compulsive business networker with a good contact database. When he gets the opportunity, he is an avid mountaineer, with the three main Alpine peaks under his belt, and is planning to develop from an occasional golfer to a mid-handicap player.