| Andy Bounds Andy Bounds Ltd Andy is an expert at helping people sell more. Winner of Britain’s Sales Trainer of the Year and author of three best-selling books, Andy has increased the sales of every organisation he has worked with. He has worked in 30+ countries, and helped one bank win a £2.6billion deal. | |
| Nick Britton Head of Training Association of Investment Companies (AIC) Nick works with Financial Planners and wealth managers to develop their understanding of investment companies. Prior to joining the AIC he worked for seven years as a financial journalist, researching and writing about investment companies and VCTs. This culminated in a three-year stint as editor of What Investment magazine. He graduated from Cambridge University. | |
| Alison Broadberry Partner Charles Russell Speechlys LLP Prior to Charles Russell Speechlys, Alison was formerly Head of Private Client at Speechly Bircham, Divisional Director and Head of Tax & Trusts at St. James's Place and Financial Planning Manager at AXA Sun Life. She’s a member of STEP, a Taxation Technician and holds the ACII qualification. Alison's practice focuses on estate and succession planning for HNW clients. | |
| Andrew Brook-Dobson CFP Chair of the IFP Ethics Committee IFP/Brook‐Dobson Brear Andrew is passionate about Financial Planning and communicating the differences and superiority over traditional ‘financial advice’. He sits on the IFP board and chairs the Ethics & Practice Standards Committee. Brook‐Dobson Brear was established eight years ago, nominated as an NMA firm of the year in the North in its second year and won it in its third. | |
| Marcus Brookes Head of Multi-Manager Diversity Team Schroders Marcus is head of the Multi-Manager Diversity team at Schroders who manage more than £3bn of client’s assets. He is regularly seen in print and on screen giving his views on the importance of asset allocation when selecting funds. Marcus graduated from the University of Stirling with an MSc in Investment Analysis and has over 20 years of investment experience. | |
| Chris Budd Managing Director Ovation Finance Chris established Ovation Finance Ltd in 2000, logging and charging time from the outset. Ovation provides Financial Planning based around helping clients understand themselves. By asking questions such as "How much is enough?” clients leave meetings better informed to make decisions about their lives. Chris passed his diploma in business coaching in 2010. Ovation uses many of these coaching techniques. | |
| Dominique Butters Business Development Manager Octopus Investments Dominique has been with Octopus for over six years in the Business Development function, covering the South West and Wales. She has over 20 years’ experience in financial services, having started her career in Lloyds Bank, before moving on to Towry as an financial adviser, and then joining Clerical Medical, first as broker consultant, and then moving to the investment specialist team within a technical and training capacity. | |
| Neil Cowell Head of Retail Sales Vanguard Asset Management Neil and his team have responsibility for developing and increasing Vanguard’s UK distribution through advisers, wealth managers and other key business partners. Neil joined Vanguard from Standard Life where he was a member of the UK Distribution Board. He has a broad experience of distribution in both the advisory sector and the Bank & Wealth Manager sector and has held senior management roles in both areas. | |
| Greg Davies Head of Behavioural-Quantitative Finance Barclays Greg joined Barclays in 2006 to build the financial world’s first behavioural finance team, dedicated to helping people make better financial decisions. He is an Associate Fellow at Oxford’s Saïd Business School and lecturer at Imperial College. His book, Behavioural Investment Management, was published in 2012. He holds an MPhil (Economics) and a PhD in Behavioural Decision Theory from Cambridge University. | |
| Fraser Doherty MBE Founder SuperJam Fraser started SuperJam in Scotland at the age of fourteen, using his Grandmother's recipes. Since then, his brand of 100% fruit jam has grown into a company that supplies over 1,000 supermarkets around the world. | |
| Richard Goodall Partner Parmenion Richard Goodall has a proven track record of helping retail and institutional distributor businesses deliver change through technology. He is responsible for leading Parmenion's marketing and sales strategy. A well-respected industry figure with previous board appointments at Ascentric and 1st Software/IRESS, Richard was also most recently, Managing Director of UK Business Transition at SEI, a global provider of institutional and private client wealth management solutions. | |
| Bob Gordon Pensions Consultancy Manager Standard Life Bob Gordon is Standard Life’s Pensions Consultancy Manager. Since 1987, Bob has worked with DB, SSASs, SIPPs and spent seven years as trustee of a large DB scheme. His current focus is on engaging policymakers to influence pension policy, and articulating issues and opportunities from legislative change. Bob’s goal is to help Financial Planners tailor solutions to their clients’ pension needs. | |
| Steve Groves CEO Partnership Steve joined Partnership in 2005 as Chief Financial Officer, becoming Managing Director in 2006. He previously led the actuarial team at Swiss Re’s Admin Re startup. Most of Steve’s career has been spent working on financial solutions for people in retirement. Steve was previously a director of ERC, the equity release trade body and was a founder member of the Institute of Actuaries working party on equity release. | |
| Michael Hague FIFP CFP Financial Planner & Fellow Investment for Life Mike is a Fellow of the IFP, a CFPCM professional and a Chartered Financial Planner. He works with Investment for Life, a firm which provides an ongoing, comprehensive Financial Planning service for a select number of clients. Mike was amongst the first group of IFP members to gain CFPCM certification in the UK and was in the first cohort to be granted the Fellowship. | |
| Philippa Hann Partner Clarke Willmott LLP Philippa has specialised in financial services law for almost a decade. Much to her team's delight she insists that they all take the Diploma in Regulated Financial Planning. She has not made an exception for herself. She acts for both those who give and receive advice. | |
| Melony Holman CFP Director/Consultant Compliance & Training Solutions Ltd Mel has been working in the field of compliance for the last 18 years, the last 10 with CATS which she founded in February 2005. Mel works with financial adviser firms throughout the UK helping them to incorporate compliance into their firms. Mel sits on the IFP board and chairs the IFP’s membership committee. | |
| Andrew Keegan Vice President BlackRock Andrew joined the BlackRock Multi-Asset Strategies team in 2013 as a Portfolio Strategist. Prior to moving to BlackRock, he was a research analyst with the Merrill Lynch Global Chief Investment Office where his focus was on multi-asset portfolio construction and risk management. Andrew graduated from the Smurfit Business School, University College Dublin, where his Master’s degree thesis was on the topic of active versus passive investing. | |
| Michael Langerup Director - Product Strategist ETF Securities Michael Langerup joined ETF Securities in 2009 to focus on product strategy. Prior to ETF Securities, Michael worked for Saxo Bank, as a research analyst for the bank’s two internal hedge funds. Michael earned his BSc and MSc from Copenhagen Business School in Finance and Accounting and an MBA from Case Western Reserve University. | |
| Murray McEwan CFP Director Flowers McEwan Ltd Murray is chair of the IFP Leeds Branch. He’s also a director of his own Financial Planning firm Flowers McEwan, where Philanthropy is a key area of expertise. He has been providing fee-based holistic Financial Planning since late 90s and joined IFP in 1999. Prior to that he worked as an IFA and an adviser for Friends Provident. | |
| Hassan Motala Senior Investment Analyst Oasis Crescent (UK) Ltd Hassan is a Chartered Accountant, qualified auditor and completed his CFA in 2005. He joined Oasis as an investment analyst and has over sixteen years of investment management experience. He has an in-depth understanding of global financial markets and serves as a senior member of the Investment Committee at Oasis. Hassan is also responsible for the institutional client services function and financial advisor relations. | |
| Ian Muirhead Chairman SIFA Solicitor and founder of SIFA, whose objective is to facilitate relationships between Financial Planners and solicitors. | |
| Terry Mullins The Reluctant Salesman Terry has been a sales and client acquisition coach for over 20 years, working principally with professional service providers. He provides a way of selling for those who don't necessarily see themselves as sales people and for whom traditional sales techniques would be wholly inappropriate. His book 'Creating The Freedom to Sell' forms the basis of his in-house and workshop training programmes. | |
| Jamie Newell Managing Director O3 Insurance Solutions Founded a Lloyd's of London Insurance broker and a PI underwriting agency placing and underwriting Professional indemnity policies for IFA's. Now exclusively acting for Financial Planners Advisers and Wealth Managers for their Professional Indemnity Insurance requirements. Regular speaker at IFP and UBS conferences and maintains an ongoing dialogue with the FCA to improve their understanding of PI for advisory firms and push for reforms for the benefit of firms. | |
| Rory Percival Technical Specialist FCA Rory worked in the industry for around 20 years prior to joining the regulator in 2006, and has Chartered Financial Planner status. He has been involved with high profile projects such as pension switching, structured products, platforms and intermediaries, risk profiling, centralised investment propositions, mystery shopping in banks, RDR implementation, RDR adviser charges and services, non-advised/simplified advice and due diligence on products and services. | |
| John Porteous CFP Head of Client Proposition Towry John joined Towry following the acquisition of Baker Tilly Financial Management in June 2014 where he was Head of Wealth Management. He is a regular presenter at key influencer events and was a past chairman of the Society of Financial Advisors and is a former board director of the IFP. | |
| Kat Quatermass Story Consultant KQ Stories Kat is a strategic cultural planner turned performance storyteller. She specialises in working with professionals in the financial, insurance, outsourcing and legal sectors to transform the way they communicate. Clients at firms such as NFU Mutual, Clarke Willmott LLP and Capita are amongst those she has converted to the importance of storytelling in business presentations and communication. | |
| Dr James Rouse Founder Optimum Wellness Media Dr. James Rouse is the founder of Optimum Wellness Media. An author of 10 books and a successful entrepreneur. James has coached and presented to Fortune 50 and 500 companies (Coke, Google, NBC, Major League Baseball and US Government) across North America, Europe and Asia on success, high performance living and fulfillment. | |
| Richard Sheppard Intermediary Development Manager Metlife Richard joined financial services in 1984 and MetLife in 2009 to head up their Adviser Education Programme. He then worked with product providers and as an adviser before assisting with building the adviser engagement plan for the Personal Accounts Delivery Authority (now NEST). | |
| Angela Sherman Director Care To Be Different Angela writes and speaks about NHS Continuing Healthcare funding in England, helping professional advisers better understand how to assist clients in this respect. Her website also contains practical information and advice, drawing on her own experience, plus that of over 900 families battling for care funding. She speaks at length about Continuing Healthcare on radio, TV and in the press. | |
| Rob Stevenson Founder Kingmakers Rob started Kingmakers in 2005, having spent 20 years in the financial services sector, working for product providers and IFA firms of all shapes and sizes. His depth and breadth of experience, coupled with a no nonsense, plain speaking approach, help him when advising business owners on the development and implementation of strategies to aid growth. | |
| Ruth Sturkey CFP Founder & Managing Director The Red House Consulting Ltd In response to a belief that there was a better way of providing Financial Planning, Ruth and her retired business partner set up The Red House Consulting Ltd in 2007. The Red House is a boutique Chartered and Accredited Financial Planning firm providing Financial Planning to its small number of wealthy client families. Financial Planning for people who get what life's about. | |
| Bryony Thomas Watertight Marketing Bryony Thomas is the creator of the award-winning Watertight Marketing methodology; a step-by-step process to take calm, confident, control of your business growth. Having cut her teeth marketing the likes of Microsoft and Experian, Bryony now focuses on ambitious entrepreneurs looking to take their business to the next step of sustainable growth. | |
| Chris Williams CFP CEO Wealth Horizon Chris is driven by a desire to make investing simple, accessible and affordable to all. After 15 years, he left Ashcourt Rowan as CEO of their Financial Planning arm in order to set up Wealth Horizon. Wealth Horizon uses Parmenion's automated advice technology to fill the market gap created by traditional advice and investment management models which cannot serve the majority of people. Chris also sits on the IFP Board. | |
| Gordon Wilson CFP Managing Director Carbon Financial Partners Ltd Gordon and four colleagues founded Carbon Financial Partners in June 2011. He was formerly MD of Thomson Shepherd (TS) which grew by organic growth and acquisition until being acquired by Skipton Building Society in 2008. Accredited Firm Carbon has quickly achieved national recognition through winning awards including in 2015, the Professional Adviser, ‘Adviser Firm of the Year (UK)’. | |
| Andy Zanelli Head of Retirement Planning AXA Wealth Andy joined the industry in 1991 as a financial consultant with Prudential followed by a period with Clerical Medical in the role of broker consultant. Having joined AXA in August 1999 as technical manager, he now leads a team of technical consultants who assist advisers with many aspects of Financial Planning. | |
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