Barry

What are your responsibilities?

• Review client files. Find out about their business and help them find what they need to make it work.
• Determine why they need a business plan and how it will help them. Very few people actually want a business plan; however, they need one.
• When the financials are done, review the financial statements and analyses. Make sure they make sense.
• Review all business plans to make sure that they will work.

What education do you bring to your position?

• FCCA – I’m a professional accountant – Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants.
• FMC – I have a Certificate in IT Financial Management Controllership.

How do your strengths help you fulfill your duties?

• I’m interested in people and like to help them achieve their goals.
• I am very picky (obsessive) so things have to work and be correct.

What is your biggest passion as it relates to your role?

• I love helping people.

What challenge(s) in your role do you enjoy most?

• Finding ways to increase clients’ profitability.
• Making the numbers make sense.

How do you stay up to date in your field?

• Read loads of business-related material like:
  • The Economist, Business Week, Forbes.
  • Google News – Business, Technology.

In your spare time when you’re not fulfilling your duties we’d find you:

• Playing with technology.
• Drinking Island single malt whiskies, especially Laphroaig Lore and Highland Park.
• Hacking around a golf course — in less than 100 on a good day.

Two Little Known Facts About You

1. I brought a business perspective to a charity for abused women.

2. I wrote a “Hangman” game for a TRS-80 Model 100 portable computer for my three-year-old daughter.