Judging panel

Andy is an extremely experienced corporate banker with over 34 years service principally in the executive leadership of units undertaking credit risk and distressed asset management. He has also spent time as a relationship banking director. In his last role, he was the principal lending officer for the wholesale arm of Lloyds Banking Group, representing the most senior authority for credit decisions across the division.

 

At the start of 2011, Andy was appointed managing director, global business support unit, which handles distressed assets in the UK, US, Ireland and Australia.

 

The business support area has seen a rapid growth in the asset base under management and in staffing levels (c2000) staff following the acquisition of HBOS. The business support unit team has done a fantastic job in putting its arms around a significant problem for Lloyds Banking Group with clear strategies being developed for the all assets in the portfolio.

Bryan is the CEO of TnuiCapital, a stressed/distressed investment and consultancy business. Previously, he was the head of the restructuring and insolvency group at international law firm Salans, where he advised on some of the major restructuring in the UK and Europe. Assignments included the restructuring of Little Chef, MFI and Allied Carpets to name a few. He then left the legal sector to join Gordon Brothers Europe where he was the CEO for Europe.

Bryan has been described as “the market leader whose endeavours have helped to shape and develop this [turnaround funding] market”.

Bryan has been president of the Turnaround Management Association (UK) since January 2010 and, under his leadership, the UK chapter has gone from strength to strength with an increase in membership of over 30% during this time. Bryan is known for his commercial and pragmatic approach.

During his time with Salans, Bryan was the head of the global restructuring group.

Whilst a lawyer, Chambers UK ranked Bryan as one of the leading lawyers in the turnaround finance field: “He approaches the law as a tool to solve a problem”, clients observed. “We love working with him because he wants to do the best for us and always manages to add value to deals”.

Christopher specialises in all aspects of contentious and non-contentious corporate recovery and insolvency work. He acts for insolvency practitioners, corporate lenders, directors and for other stakeholders. Christopher joined Speechly Bircham in January 2004.

David is a licensed insolvency practitioner with a background in regulation. His practice experience was gained working in insolvency firms large and small throughout the UK, including ten years with Grant Thornton. Subsequently, David turned gamekeeper and has been heavily involved in regulating the work of IPs, both with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and now the IPA. He is a member of the Institute of Credit Management.  

 

Jamie Constable is the founder and chief executive officer of RCapital. Since its formation in April 2004 the company has purchased, restructured and turned round over 20 businesses in sizes ranging from £10M turnover to £100M turnover. RCapital is one of the few companies active in the distressed space. In a period of less than seven years it has built a reputation as one of the main players in the turnaround market and is well respected by the banks, solicitors and insolvency practitioners.

John is a licensed Insolvency Practitioner at CBW (Carter Backer Winter LLP) with extensive experience in both personal and corporate insolvency and turnaround assignments. He also acts for creditors wishing to recover assets and has been active in court appointed receiverships in high profile fraud cases. He has given expert witness testimony on reported cases.

Prior to joining CBW in 2011, John previously held positions at Bridge and Mercer & Hole in London, where he led the development of their rescue, recovery and insolvency department in London.

He qualified in 2003 and is licensed by the ICAEW as an insolvency practitioner and is a member of R3 and the IPA.

Kevin has enjoyed a career with Barclays for over 30 years, the last 12 of which in risk management. In 2010, he became UK head of business support and recoveries for Barclays Corporate following his previous five years as head of restructuring. After joining Barclays in the North West, Kevin has spent most of his working life with Barclays in London and the South East in a variety of management positions across commercial and corporate banking in both West End and City locations and across corporate relationship banking and credit risk functions. He is a firm advocate of Barclays’ business turnaround model.

Marcel has been editor of Insolvency Today since October 2010 and oversaw the launch of the publication. He was previously acting editor of Credit Today, having joined the company as deputy editor in January 2009. Prior to Credit Today, he worked as editor of Home Entertainment Week and deputy editor of Mortgage Strategy. He has also worked at the Daily Telegraph, the BBC and various regional newspapers across the UK.

Nitin Joshi, a veteran in the business recovery and insolvency field, founded ChannelMoney. He is well known in the computer and IT sector, a frequent speaker and columnist. He is a director of B&C Associates, licensed insolvency practitioners, based in North London.

 

Pat Boyden has 35 years’ experience of personal insolvency and has been the product leader since he was admitted to partnership in 1994. He has long been regarded as one of the foremost experts on bankruptcy. He is widely regarded by insolvency lawyers and has extensive knowledge and experience of personal insolvency law and practice. Pat has been the trustee of over 3,000 bankruptcies in the past 12 years. Amongst those cases have been assorted politicians, sportsmen, entertainers and business personalities including William Roache (“Ken Barlow”) and Chris Eubank.

Peter is an appointment taking insolvency practitioner and director of BRI Business Recovery and Insolvency. His insolvency career started with the Insolvency Service in 1985, moving to what is now PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1989 and into his current practice in 1994.

Always involved with his RPB and also with many years service to R3, Peter now serves ACCA as their representative director and current chairman of the Joint Insolvency Examining Board (JIEB) and as a director of IPR Services, the company appointing members to the Insolvency Practices Council (IPC). He chairs the ACCA insolvency committee and also sits on a number of other committees and technical groups.

Richard joined KPMG in 2003 to head restructuring in the north of England having previously been a partner with both Arthur Andersen and Ernst & Young. He has extensive experience leading turnaround, work out assignments and various forms of insolvency solutions for under-performing companies across a broad range of sectors including manufacturing, leisure, transport / logistics, retail, oil and gas and automotive. He also has extensive experience in selling businesses both in the UK and overseas.

Stephen graduated from Bristol University in 1981 where he studied law. After achieving honours in his law finals at Guildford College of Law, he trained and qualified at Clarke Willmott. He has specialised in insolvency work since 1987 and became the youngest lawyer to obtain the licensed insolvency practitioner qualification. Stephen was an equity partner and a member of the firm's management board for over 15 years. In February 2008, after 25 years at Clarke Willmott, Stephen joined Moon Beever as a consultant in the insolvency and business recovery team, where he enhanced the teams already high profile and vast experience.

Stephen is risk director in Ernst & Young’s UK & Ireland restructuring group. He is responsible for leading the team which provides support to the restructuring group, including technical guidance, internal compliance, knowledge sharing and quality and risk management. Stephen joined Ernst & Young at the beginning of November 2010, after more than 25 years at The Insolvency Service, where latterly he was director of policy. Stephen worked with ministers to deliver many of the recent changes to the insolvency regime, including, the corporate insolvency provisions of the enterprise act, the “reversal” of the House of Lords decision in Leyland Daf; and the “modernisation” changes introduced in April 2009 and 2010.

Tyrone is a chartered accountant, a fellow member of ICAEW, and a licensed insolvency practitioner. He is lead partner of Cooper Parry’s business restructuring, recovery and insolvency services practice. He has over 20 years’ of experience advising lenders, corporate’s, distressed investors and individuals in complex financial restructuring and recovery situations across a broad wide of industry sectors and jurisdictions.

Tyrone is well known in the Midlands business community and was UK president of the Turnaround Management Association (TMA) (see www.tmw-uk.org) in 2008 and 2009 and still remains actively involved with the TMA Board. Tyrone also sits on the ICAEW’s special interest group for insolvency.