Meet Our Team
Perry R. B. Stewart Group CEO |
Perry Stewart is a highly experienced Chief Executive Officer with hands on knowledge of managing companies in both turnaround and growth situations. He has held senior management positions in a variety of industries including civil engineering, building maintenance, building services, drinks & beverage industry in the UK, Scandinavia, Northern Europe, Australasia and the USA. The businesses Perry has built have relied on his skills to significantly grow their revenue and improve profitability. Turning around underperforming organisations through organisational change, sales enablement & education, streamlining routes to market and improving channel management.
Perry has also been instrumental in buying, building and selling over 100+ companies across Europe and Australia. The IBG Group was established for the benefit of current and future clients. With his team of professional advisers, as well as a number of professional connections including accountants and solicitors, it has given Perry a deep insight to the many problems his clients have experienced in their businesses, resulting in a positive outcome for the clients. The IBG Group is expanding its large business network with a goal of developing through mergers & acquisitions workable alliances with companies in any industry. |
Shaun Walsh Group CFO Shaun Walsh is a Chartered Accountant, a former PWC Corporate Auditor and a Portfolio CFO/Finance Director with extensive Board level experience in a wide range of industries including Hotels, Property Development and Social Housing. He establishes strong financial reporting and control to anchor a business and then brings Management Consulting and Coaching skills to bear to bring challenge and build Board consensus to help shape future direction. Shaun has been involved in over £25m of Corporate Finance transactions (including an acquisition of a Marriott hotel) and recently helped lead the restructuring and turnaround of two £10m+ entities with profit improvements of £1m+ in both. He has a degree in Industrial Economics from the University of Nottingham and is a trained Management Consultant and Business Coach.
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Ased Iqbal Acquisitions Director Ased Iqbal has an engineering degree and post graduate law qualification and is a seasoned entrepreneur.
Ased has accumulated wide-ranging business experience over the past 30 years, having owned and operated companies in various sectors that include wholesale/distribution, where he built a food and drinks business to £10's of millions in revenue prior to a successful trade sale exit, hospitality, e-commerce, manufacturing, environmental services, real estate and franchising. He handles the corporate finance aspect of the process from valuations to structuring the deals, organising the finance for acquisitions as well as handling the legal and financial due diligence. |
Gill Fraser Sales & Marketing Director Gill Fraser has an extremely impressive history in sales and marketing and vast experience over 25 years, working with IT businesses, both large organisations like IBM, Symantec and Trend Micro as well as start-ups. She has significantly grown revenue and improved profitability through building and leading sales & marketing teams, creating strong distribution and channel partners and winning routes to market across ASIA Pac the Middle East and Europe.
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David Brown Non-Executive Advisor David Brown is a graduate of the University of Memphis (Tennessee, USA) and a serial entrepreneur. He was an early adopter of networking technology and is a seasoned corporate executive with extensive international connections. He is a member of several Boards, including the Foynes Flying Boat & Maritime Museum in Foynes, Ireland. His experience includes start-up and operation of several UK/EMEA companies on behalf of US enterprise networking and internet related firms. He is US-based but still spends extensive time in the UK and Europe and maintains active contacts there.
David says: “Through IBG Group, we would like to connect with and to assist in the evaluation of candidate companies and small firms with good emerging technology to assist in the merging or acquiring of the business.” |