About

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The managing partner of Guilford Consulting is Noel Guilford. Noel is a chartered accountant with over 30 years experience in the accounting profession, the past 25 of which have been in corporate finance and business consultancy. Noel is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales, a Member of the Securities Institute and a member of the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council. He is a former Regional Chairman of the Institute of Directors in the North West of England.

Noel’s widest experience comes from advising the shareholders, directors and management of private companies. He has led and arranged acquisitions, management buyouts and disposals, raised development capital and provided strategic and business advice to numerous businesses.

Noel’s public company experience includes having advised and reported on companies that have floated on both the main market and AiM, and acting as Rule 3 adviser under the Takeover Code.

His first non-executive directorship appointment came in 1996, for Deva Designs Limited a Chester-based design and marketing company for whom he now provides strategic and business advice. He has recently been appointed National Chairman of The Forum of Private Business (http://www.fpb.org) a not for profit members organisation representing 25,000 private businesses.