Advisory Board
At Spectrum we seek to differentiate ourselves from our competition through a diversity of experience and capability that enables us to deliver the widest possible range of deal types for our clients. We believe that our Advisory Board adds further to this unique proposition.
The Spectrum Advisory Board comprises of seasoned industry professionals and entrepreneurs across a wide range of business sectors. Our Advisory Board members will work with us on deals and opportunities in sectors where they have deep seated business knowledge as well as helping us to find new opportunities by virtue of their own personal networks and industry contacts. We believe this provides Spectrum with genuine sector and business expertise to sit alongside and complement our wide ranging advisory skills, experience and know-how.
Nigel Tipple, Chairman
Sector: Shipping, Leisure and Packaging
Having graduated from Oxford University in 1978, Nigel spent the first 12 years of his career working in the City. He initially trained with Citibank and was subsequently employed in the corporate finance department of a leading merchant bank.
Peter Brooks
Sector: Business and Support Services and Private Equity
Peter is a highly successful private equity Managing Director with 25 years’ experience of buying, selling, analysing and investing in unquoted companies.
David Cole
Sector: Healthcare
David has 29 years’ experience in health, social care, and education, in public and private sector organisations. David has demonstrated the ability to lead, grow, and develop businesses, maximising shareholder value in a private equity backed environment.
Steve Ellis
Sector: Homeland Security and Defence and Local Liaison/Integration of US Targets
Steve has a proven track record of creating value through company acquisitions and other corporate development initiatives in the US and internationally.
Mike Evans
Sector: Financial Services
Mike is a very experienced, well-rounded financial services Chairman and Non-Executive Director. A FTSE 100 Chairman, financially qualified (FIA) with significant strategic and operational executive experience.
Iain Mckenzie
Sector: Telecommunications, Software and Services
Iain has successfully established, developed, grown and exited a number of businesses in pioneering areas of technology. He set up his first business selling video data terminals in the mid-1980s which he then sold to Viewdata.
Roger Pedder
Sector: Retail and Consumer
Roger has enjoyed a varied managerial and entrepreneurial career initially in retail but latterly as a non-executive Chairman or Director of family or private equity companies.
Heather Savory
Sector: High Technology, Regulatory and Public Sectors
Heather is a successful executive with a solid commercial track-record and extensive board and senior management experience in entrepreneurial and high technology businesses, consulting and central government. Heather has strong expertise in all aspects of high growth business development and large-scale change environment.
Mark Volanthen
Sector: Technology, Energy, Aerospace and Defence
Mark has held a variety of executive and non-executive roles in high growth international technology businesses and has achieved a number of successful exits.
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E: info@spectrumcf.co.uk
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