Nicholas Young Managing Director, Beer & Young Ltd Nicholas is the founder of Beer & Young Ltd. He joined David Beer at Beer & Partners in early 1997 when there were a mere handful of Associates & became Regional Director for London when the management structure was formed in 1999. Beer & Young was established in 1998, specifically to help troubled companies, raising equity funding and advising & delivering on turnaround strategy. In 2001, Nicholas resigned his management position within Beer & Partners to enable him to fully concentrate developing Beer & Young. The two companies operate as sister companies with cross shareholding. Prior to joining the Beer group, Nicholas has run his own businesses since the late Eighties, advising companies on fund raising and venture capital. You could say that he is a dedicated small business entrepreneur who is well placed to understand the needs of clients in the SME sector.
		Declan Williams Director of Business Development Declan enjoyed a 10 year career with a major UK bank and progressed to management positions within the small business and corporate banking divisions. He left the bank to purchase his own leisure business and ran this successfully for over 10 years. He also has an MBA from Kingston Business School (2000) and is a member of the Association of MBAs. Entrepreneurial consultancy experience is one of his major strengths and he has been involved in a number of major leisure projects at a strategic level. His experience within the SME sector is particularly relevant to our clients and he has been instrumental in facilitating a number of investment completions leading to corporate recovery.
		Michael Morley-Smith Associate Trained as an accountant, Michael spent 10 years with a public company, finally in the position of Group Company Secretary. Since then he has run various small businesses and undertaken management consultancy assignments with a particular emphasis on turnaround finance and corporate recovery situations, gaining particular experience working with Insolvency Practitioners. Michael has intimate knowledge of small business practice as well as company insolvency rules. He is therefore able to understand the difficulties many entrepreneurs are faced with and expertly able to assist with company recovery.
		Hilary Bishop Associate Hilary has joined Beer & Young Ltd. as an Associate whilst continuing to run his own consultancy involved in the provision of business and corporate finance advice to SMEs. His involvement in corporate recovery started over 35 years ago in the creation of a substantial vehicle leasing operation for a major motor manufacturer. He subsequently created a tax based leasing operation for a manufacturing company and then another vehicle leasing operation for a major vehicle distributor. He started his own consultancy 30 years ago and now has a substantial network of lenders and contacts allowing him to handle any business or corporate recovery requirement. Hilarys wide range of entrepreneurial experience in businesses large and small means that he is very well equipped to analyse the needs of small to medium sized enterprises with either difficulties or great prospects.
		Peter Douglas Associate Peter graduated with a degree in Business Studies whilst working as a commercial apprentice with Massey Ferguson. After graduation Peter became PA to the Export Director and then moved into the export servicing department having responsibility for Central and West Africa. This was the start of some 20 years involvement in the export business all over the World, mainly in the fields of sales and marketing. Peter then moved to Northamptonshire whereupon he set up Business Finance Services Ltd which specialises in Commercial Finance. Peter therefore brings a wide range of experience to his role as Beer & Young Associate.
		John Silton Associate John has spent the last 12 years working as an independent business consultant specialising in strategy, planning and access to business finance. Prior to this he owned, ran and sold a food manufacturing business during a 5 year spell and initially, spent over 20 years in management with Marks & Spencer. He has spent many years matching up entrepreneurs and private investors whilst working with the countrys leading business angel network and also has investment bank experience. John is a preferred supplier to Business Links Access to Finance programme which helps entrepreneurs source expansion finance and has been a director of the North London Chamber & Enterprise Credit Union.
		Brian Rutter Birmingham Regional Director Brian began his career as a management graduate with GEC Telecom in Coventry which was the start of 20 years in the technology industry during which he began in sales and marketing before taking up a general management role with a global player. By the year 2000 Brian was active in the dot com boom and successfully raised venture capital for small technology companies and was a director of an early stage technology business. For the past 6 years he has built and managed his own consultancy and business finance brokerage specialising in property finance. Having worked in small and large global companies he brings a wealth of experience to Beer & Young and its clients.
		Peter Gaut FCMA Associate Peter is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and has spent many years helping owners of companies achieve their objectives. He is passionate about business and getting the right mix of good management, investment capital and development to achieve the highest returns. He has run SME's as Managing Director as well as acting as a consultant to others, incuding some large Plc's . His recent experience advising on a number of administrations that achieved corporate recovery well qualifies him to fully understand the needs of clients.
		Philip Sethill Associate Phil spent seven years working with Marks and Spencers in a management role. He left in 1976 to take over ownership of a food manufacturing business, supplying most of the major supermarkets and numerous other outlets with own-label confectionery. The company grew from strength to strength over the 26 years that he ran the operation, employing 250 staff, until it was sold to a Danish corporation 4 years ago. Since then he has used his wealth of experience, gained from running all aspects of the business, to act as a consultant, helping a variety of companies re-organize and re-structure to achieve higher returns. He believes that a successful business requires strong management, an understanding of how capital can best be used to maximise margins.
		John Radford Associate Jon Radford trained as a civil engineer and worked for Cleveland Bridge and RT James and Partners, before moving to Spain to become the technical director of Hoteles Cryns. He returned to the UK in 1986 to join Industrial Technology Securities, a venture capital firm, before moving to the corporate finance department of Belmont Bank ltd, a boutique bank specialising in raising money for privately owned companies. Latterly he owned and ran his own printing company which he sold in 2003, since when he has built-up a consultancy business, under the aegis of the Institute for Independent Management (IIBI). Along the way he also picked-up two business degrees. He is a sympathetic listener, with large experience of the issues besetting private companies, as well as the practical problems of raising finance for them.
		Tom Clay Associate Tom runs his own consultancy advising small and medium-sized business customers. Having worked for many years for a major UK bank in a variety of lending roles, he understands the issues that face the young and growing business. He also has wide-ranging experience of firms in difficulty and how banks deal with them through time in the bank's Special Situations and Commercial Insolvency Units. Tom has many contacts among financial and insolvency professionals. With a MBA from Henley Management College, Tom brings the skills to advise firms either in financial difficulty or seeking funding for growth.
		Alban Kissane Associate Alban qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant in the early eighties and has been involved in many start-up and turnaround businesses throughout his career. He has been a successful Finance Director and has worked in various PLC's as well as providing mentoring and creating new businesses. He has been CEO of his own business and has assumed this role in interim positions for a number of SME's requiring help within the turnaround sector. He offers a wide range of relevant skills and experience to help enterprises and entrepreneurs meet the challenges of an ever increasingly competitive marketplace.