Welcome
Hello and welcome to my business authorship website.
I have a lifelong belief in the value of sharing business knowlege and experiences and I've been very keen to make a contribution to this by writing a number of books.
For more details of each of these please follow the links below and I hope they are of interest and use to you.
I am always happy to talk so if I can be of any help in respect of any of the issues covered in any of my books please do get in touch through the contact details on this site or by connecting with me on LinkedIn.
All the best
Mark
My books
Essential business guides
Rescuing A Business
There is lots of advice around for starting a business, but less for when it is established but un-profitable, or gets into difficulties. This is a guide to help you when the going gets tough.
Selling A Business
This practical, commonsense book will help to secure the best result.
Buying A Business
Buying a business is not just a case of doing a deal, however involved and pressurised that might feel at the time.
Managing Your Bank
Managing Your Bank Manager is your guide to making a success of this most critical of business relationships for you as a business owner.
Funding Your Business
This book demystifies the raising of finance and clears a way through the financial jargon for the SME owner/manager.
Managing Your Early Career
Congratulations on landing your first 'career' job! Now it's time to transform it into the stepping stone to your extraordinary future.
Discover the hidden secrets of the real work world that nobody ever shares with you in Your First Job.
About Me
Having worked for PwC’s business rescue and insolvency practice in the UK and overseas, including secondment into a bank’s intensive care unit, I have subsequently been involved in conducting and investing in business turnarounds and buying, financing, and selling businesses for over twenty five years at Director level.
I’ve been described as speaking fluent bank and I specialise in managing stressed banking relationships and implementing financial, strategic and operational restructuring of SME businesses to address cash flow, achieve a return to sustainable profitable trading, and create realisable business value.
I have been involved as an advisor, investor and/or hands on Director across a wide range of businesses ranging from a PE owned charter airline, a listed electronics manufacturer, through to entrepreneurial tech enterprises, and family owned construction, shop fitting, manufacturing and service businesses.
I current live off-grid high up in the North Pennines and work across the UK.