About Me
I had no desire to sit in a classroom as a schoolboy and instead, focused my efforts on teaching myself how to repair electrical appliances which led to me establishing in the mid 80’s a commercially successful Electronics company, employing staff by the time I was 15 years old.
The business evolved into an Electrical Contracting firm securing long term relationships with local councils and government departments prior to being sold to a national operator in 1996.
In my early 20’s an opportunity presented itself for me to finance the establishment of a Children’s Day Nursery which opened in 1993 and grew over the course of the next 10 years into a large group of Nurseries which I sold in 2003.
Barely into my 30’s, my next professional move was to buy a Car Finance company and following a relatively short but exciting few years, I sold the business (in 2006) in view of being offered an opportunity to establish myself in the Financial Services industry in Dubai.
Enjoying many years as an expat in the UAE, following the sale of my International Financial Advisory company, I returned to the UK and made numerous shareholder / strategic advisor investments into other businesses.
Seeking continued professional stimulation and being in a unique position to further utilise the wealth of experience that I procured from my years running my business in the UAE, my attention turned to helping my clients protect their assets via the establishment of Protection Trusts and in 2019 I established my Will Writing & Estate Planning company.
I also purchased a Digital Payments startup which saw rapid growth whilst under my ownership through to 2022 when I decided to split the company and sold the white-label online Payment Gateway part of the business and streamlined operations in order to focus on my predominantly face-to-face Card Processing Services company.
Having recently made the decision to increase the time I spend overseas I have established a new internationally based cross border Asset Protection company.
My decisions in recent years to scale back my business interests have been driven by my desire to reduce my professional obligations and responsibilities as the owner of businesses which have employed significant numbers of people (as I have been doing so since before I left school almost 40 years ago) and this has been compounded more recently due to the increasing amount of time I am dedicating to charitable causes and as such I am now laying the foundations in preparation for the launch of my own Charitable Foundation.