Nigel's clients benefit from his exceptional range of experience gained in a career which has spanned both the public and the private sectors.
Commissioned into the Royal Artillery while reading for a degree in mathematics at Durham University, Nigel served in the UK and Germany and on three Northern Ireland tours, leaving the Army as a captain following appointments as Intelligence Officer and Adjutant.
At the Home office from 1976 to 1985, Nigel dealt with social policy issues spanning Government in the Crime Policy Planning Unit, and established the newly independent HM Inspectorate of Prisons, reporting directly to Parliament. He spent three years in Private Office working to Ministers, including 18 months as Private Secretary to the Home Secretary, Leon Brittan.
In 1985, Nigel moved to the City, joining Schroders Corporate Finance Department, working on floatations, acquisitions and disposals. Nigel's clients included well known FTSE 100 companies as well as small fast-growing businesses. He was the Director of Schroders responsible for the logistics and marketing of the £5.2bn floatation of the UK water industry.
From 1994-7, Nigel was Head of Corporate Finance at Hambros Bank, taking personal responsibility for advice to some of the Bank's most important clients, while devising and implementing a business plan which in two years lifted Hambros from twentieth in the acquisitions league tables to seventh.
Since 1997 Nigel has been an independent strategic adviser. In that time he has advised chief executives of more than 30 companies, both quoted and privately owned and across many industry sectors, helping them deal with a wide range of commercial, structural, ownership and governance issues.
For the last ten years Nigel has also been a board member of a number of arts organisations and charities. At present he is Chairman of The Arvon Foundation, Chairman of The City Parochial Foundation and a Trustee of the Almeida Theatre.
Nigel has two adult children, and lives in Highbury, North London.