- Senior independent director
Neil is an experienced entrepreneur and board member with over 25 years’ experience with both international and UK based companies.
Neil has a strong technical and business transformation background having owned a mid-sized Microsoft Gold Partnership, and is also experienced in corporate turnaround, restructure and recovery.
He was latterly a co-founder and commercial director of a retirement village business (developing over 500 homes), and a shareholder and interim MD of a mid-sized care home group.
Neil also brings extensive board experience from within the leisure, debt recovery and property sectors, and has raised funding for these enterprises from a variety of city and traditional banking sources.
He was responsible for developing an affordable finance product and launching it to market as a direct competitor to pernicious high cost short term lenders.
Recognising the true value of community, Neil is chair of his local village hall and an active member of his village’s social group, in addition to a number of other local good causes.
Neil is the chair of the following committees:
- the remuneration and nominations committee
Neil was appointed to the Bromford board on 2 July 2018 having been appointed to the Merlin board in July 2017 prior to the merger.