Nick qualified as a chartered accountant at a medium sized practice in London where he had extensive experience with individuals, sole traders and small and medium sized business. Taking pride in offering a personal service to his clients Nick was able to understand what his clients needed to grow their business quickly and efficiently. To broaden his experience he joined one of the big accountancy practices in the world, KPMG, spending 2 years in London and 2 in the USA. In 1992, he left practice for the world of industry joining a family owned food business. Initially coming in to strengthen the financial management side, as Finance Director he guided the business and its directors through business acquisitions, a management buyout, office relocations and systems implementations.

In 2003 following the successful sale of the business, he helped set up and run several small businesses in the retail sector. Nick discovered how difficlult it can be to balance serving the needs of sometimes demanding customers and run the business. Particularly when trying to find the right staff and deal with all the red tape and paperwork required of a modern business.

Sue has over 30 years of experience in business, remembering from a young age the highs and lows of setting up and running a family business from scratch. Alongside her father, she began learning the commercial aspects of running a business. Realising that finance was the key to success or failure Sue, set up the original manual bookkeeping systems before moving them onto a computerised package. When the family business was sold, Sue moved more into the finance side of the business helping the new owners to grow the original business through efficiency and good customer focus to become highly profitable and to employ over 400 people.

Sue graduated with MBA (Hons) in 2001and has extensive experience in implementing systems whether it be simple manual ledgers or, online / desktop packages such as Sage and Quickbooks to large ERP systems encompassing all areas of the busines