Welcome

The Business Explorer™ is the brainchild of Ian Thurgood, a chartered accountant who is also an expert in strategic planning and skilled in raising finance for future growth. Having been involved with local businesses for over 30 years Ian now feels the time is right to introduce the concept of the freelance finance director to clients old and new.

All owner-managers are emotionally involved with their businesses. Understandable but objectivity can go out of the window. Again, how many business owners would like to talk to someone who has been there and done it? Our research clearly shows a great many want to work less hard and achieve more if only they knew how.

• Who can they turn to?
• Where can they go?

At The Business Explorer™ we have the answers.

Ian Thurgood has earned his reputation working in a great many trades, industries and professions at main board level. Here are just a few examples:-

• Construction
• Civil engineering
• Precision engineering
• Media
• Exhibitions and events
• Marine

His skills, experience and focus are in the realms of:-

• Profit improvement
• Cost reduction
• Strategic and business planning
• Corporate turnarounds
• Raising finance
• Preparing businesses for sale
• Negotiations

He also places great importance on presenting management reports which non-financial managers find especially informative and easy to read.

In a career spanning more than thirty years, much of it gained in the "slit trenches" behind the FD’s desk, Ian has acquired valuable and significant knowledge and understands the problems facing SMEs in both the operational and financial areas.