Profile of our People
Management Advice was established in 2006 to provide advisory services
to the SME marketplace. With combined M & A experience totalling over 50 years,
our aim is to bring this knowledge, skills and experience to clients
in the SME market who are considering M & A projects. We aim to demystify
the process and eliminate the buzzwords and acronyms, explaining everything
in plain English.
Tim Luscombe 
Tim is a business advisor and professional speaker with an
extensive background in financial and general management. He has
worked in industries ranging from oil and gas through distribution
to information technology and has lived and worked in Europe, North
America and the Far East.
He gained acquisition experience initially in the oil
distribution business undertaking post acquisition
integration and grew to include pre-acquisition due diligence. Further
post acquisition integration experience in electrical and electronic
manufacturing followed before he entered the IT industry with Madge
Networks, which floated on the NASDAQ stock exchange reporting a
78% compound annual growth rate at IPO.
Tim was later Managing Director of a £30M catalogue
distribution business. Under his leadership, the Company acquired
a number of SME installation businesses specializing in data cabling,
networking and telephony.
He provides training courses and seminars for a number of
businesses and organisations on financial management and strategy,
including CPD courses for CIMA "Making successful Acquisitions".
More recently, Tim has been leading seminars and workshops on topics
such as "the Credit Crunch" and "Managing in turbulent times"
Tim is an accredited associate of the Institute for Independent
Business
and a member of Initiatives in Business Development
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John Fenwick

Qualified in business
administration, John has acquired practical knowledge in a
successful senior management career spanning 20 years in FTSE100
companies. Always in general management, but specialising in
business development he became M&A manager for the world’s largest
industrial services group where he acquired, and integrated small
and medium sized businesses into operating divisions. This was
followed by a period with a venture capital group acquiring and
setting up small businesses, before becoming industrial development
and acquisitions manager for one of the UK’s largest utility
companies. Trained and accredited as a business advisor, John has
ran his own consultancy practice for four years before
founding Management Advice
John is an accredited associate of the Institute for Independent
Business
and a member of Initiatives in Business Development
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