Our Asso­ciates

Mar­tin Samuel

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Mar­tin has worked as a qual­i­fied Accoun­tant in com­merce for over 30 years. For the major­i­ty of that time he has worked for a num­ber of busi­ness­es as an inter­im Finance Direc­tor, or lead­ing organ­i­sa­tions through peri­ods of change and process improve­ments. This has involved work­ing in large PLCs as well as SMEs, across a wide range of sectors.

Mar­tin is a Fel­low of the Cer­ti­fied Accoun­tants and has an MBA from Hen­ley Man­age­ment Col­lege. He is also an Asso­ciate Lec­tur­er at Chich­ester Uni­ver­si­ty. Pos­sess­ing a strong set of ana­lyt­i­cal and tech­ni­cal skills, Mar­tin enjoys work­ing with busi­ness own­ers look­ing to devel­op an exit strat­e­gy. His core strength is in help­ing busi­ness own­ers eval­u­ate their strate­gic options and plan successfully.

Ian McBain

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Ian has over 20 years account­ing expe­ri­ence, both in com­merce and more recent­ly in pri­vate prac­tice. In addi­tion, his back­ground includes work­ing as a Gen­er­al Man­ag­er for a com­pa­ny, giv­ing him an all-round per­spec­tive of what it takes to run a small business.

Ian’s strengths are in ensur­ing finan­cial process­es and sys­tems are suf­fi­cient­ly robust to pro­vide the time­ly and accu­rate infor­ma­tion required for a busi­ness to deliv­er the right results.

Jonathan Lea

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As one of the world’s most fol­lowed and con­nect­ed lawyers online, Jonathan has devel­oped both a pow­er­ful net­work and mar­ket lead­ing knowl­edge. In addi­tion to being a prac­tis­ing solic­i­tor, Jonathan writes at the Jonathan Lea Net­work, a blog focused on legal and busi­ness relat­ed con­tent that receives over 10,000 unique vis­its a month, and pro­duces the Piv­otal Tribes events, which attract audi­ences of over 100 entre­pre­neurs each time. Jonathan’s legal spe­cial­ties cov­er gen­er­al M&A, joint ven­tures, equi­ty invest­ments and gen­er­al com­mer­cial con­tracts, includ­ing any­thing relat­ing to IP, IT and outsourcing.

Mike Jen­nings

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After a career in cor­po­rate mar­ket­ing, Mike set up Busi­ness Devel­op­ment Advi­sors in 2005, pro­vid­ing mar­ket­ing ser­vices to small and medi­um sizes busi­ness­es in Sur­rey and the South East.

Mike works with busi­ness own­ers who want to grow their busi­ness but are being held back by lack of time or resource. 

He dif­fers from many mar­ket­ing con­sul­tants by tak­ing a hands on approach. Not only does he devise the mar­ket­ing strat­e­gy but also exe­cutes the implementation. 

His objec­tive is to grow a busi­ness by bring­ing in new cus­tomers, max­imis­ing the val­ue of exist­ing cus­tomers and increas­ing cus­tomer loy­al­ty by using hard hit­ting dig­i­tal and tra­di­tion­al mar­ket­ing techniques.

Tra­cy Humphrey

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Tra­cy Humphry is the Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of THR Con­sult­ing which aims to remove the stress out of HR for busi­ness­es; work­ing flex­i­bly with clients by estab­lish­ing a great work­ing relationship.

For busi­ness­es with­out a ded­i­cat­ed HR sup­port, THR deliv­ers sup­port and guid­ance just when you need it. Since 2008 they have deliv­ered in all aspects of employ­ing peo­ple – whether that is pro­vid­ing a com­plete out­sourced HR Depart­ment for busi­ness, or just help­ing in trick­i­er situations. 

Tra­cy remains up to date with changes in prac­tices and employ­ment law and can lead you through (or han­dle on your behalf) any dis­ci­pli­nary, capa­bil­i­ty, redun­dan­cy or TUPE trans­fer sit­u­a­tion. Work­ing over the longer-term to under­stand your busi­ness, THR ensures clients have all the up to date doc­u­ments and poli­cies in place, min­imis­ing risks and to suit your ethos and organisation.