The Co-gency Team
Iain Campbell
A chartered accountant and graduate lawyer, has been the Senior Partner in FC Corporate Finance (and predecessor firms) for 18 years. Prior to that he worked in industry, including as a director of the UK’s fifth-largest passenger transport operator, a spell as Finance Director (Fresh Division) of Grampian Country Chickens, the UK’s largest poultry processor and a spell as Finance Director of a wholesale/retail bakery business. Iain also served three years as a director or a leading UK independent distributor of food packaging, was a director of a firm of solicitors, has served as a director of several private-equity-backed companies and has extensive experience of planning, negotiating and implementing acquisitions and of restructuring and integrating acquired businesses. Iain has advised on numerous mergers, acquisitions, privatisations and contract and franchise bids across a range of sectors, both in the UK and overseas. Iain has extensive knowledge and business experience internationally, including in Europe and the Middle East. Iain is also a student mentor on business planning, venture capital, structured finance and mergers and acquisitions on the award-winning Alliance Manchester Business School international MBA program.
Ben Brierley
Ben trained as an accountant with an independent firm of accountants and taxation advisers. Whilst there he qualified as a member of the Association of Accounting Technicians and gained vast experience in financial reporting and tax planning. In 2014 Ben moved to FC to work in corporate finance where he qualified as a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants in 2017. On his journey with FC, he has gained a wide range of corporate finance skills and experience in business disposals, MBO, MBI, due diligence, acquisition integration, venture capital and acquisition finance, business valuations, business turnaround and rescue and business planning. His recent transactional experience has been in the technology, facilities management, personnel services, manufacturing, engineering, and wholesale distribution of which several deals have been cross border acquisitions. Ben has also managed several outsourced finance departments including holding a temporary position as group financial controller of a large technology group.
Jake Artus
Jake is a member of the Association of Accounting Technicians and has recently moved into corporate finance. Jake comes with a variety of experience working in industry for 7 years as a management accountant and finance manager for several SME’s.