Howard F.
Strategy & Corporate Finance Professional
Professional Value
Howard is a corporate finance strategist who helps family‑owned businesses and private‑equity boards resolve entrenched stakeholder disputes and chart a unified growth path. He has delivered multi‑party turnaround plans that aligned majority and minority shareholders, boards and creditors, securing financing and operational recovery in businesses valued up to £50 million. Primarily across UK mid‑market firms undergoing succession or restructuring.
Executive Profile
Extensive knowledge of corporate finance, including management experience in commercial, mortgage, investment, private, and international banking. Significant small enterprise turnaround experience and experience providing litigation support and expert witness testimony in cases involving complex corporate finance issues.
Howard helps companies where stakeholder differences threaten the future of the business. It can be a troubled situation or one where current performance is not an issue, but the future direction is no longer clear. Stakeholders include majority and minority shareholders, family, Board of Directors, management, employees, trade creditors, financial institutions, and any other party that has a stake in the future of the business. His expertise is in bringing disparate parties together to embrace a plan or a common vision.
Specialties include:
- Bringing stakeholders together on a path forward that satisfies primary needs, wants, and goals
- Gen-Y Adults: Exploring core values, personal attributes, skills, work ethic, and vision of the future to arrive at alternative paths to fulfillment
- Businesses: Negotiating with all stakeholders to develop and execute plans that achieve each stakeholder's primary priorities
Core Competencies
Finance, Financial Tools
Howard has extensive experience with finance and financial tools, utilizing them to improve strategic and operational performance in corporate settings.
His expertise includes strategic planning, capital budgeting, and risk assessment.
Strategic Management
Howard is knowledgeable about strategic management, including strategic planning and decision making.
He develops financial and operational plans to support strategic objectives, managing to achieve desired outcomes.
Small Business
Howard has experience managing small businesses, addressing unique issues such as marketing, personnel, and financial concerns.
He helps generate sufficient capital to sustain and grow businesses with limited resources.