World class practical business advice based on experience and uncompromising values
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Introducing Raymond
Raymond brings over 15 years of banking and 25 years of business acquisition / growth / sale experience plus advisory know-how to a select group of clients who have and are committed to achieving ambitious goals. His clients are, or have the capacity to be, individually visionary, driven, focused, passionate, tenacious and self-disciplined.
His relentless drive for successfully identifying and capitalising on commercial opportunities is matched by his passion to support and encourage others who share his strongly held personal values of integrity, character, interpersonal chemistry and overt consideration for others.
The evidence? An exceptional career including senior roles central to the growth and sale in 2019 of Northern Ireland’s market leading and largest privately-owned wealth management business plus over 12 major business, management, financial planning, marketing and banking qualifications alongside international recognition of his business success over many years.
Career Highlights
Four decades of maximising results directly and indirectly through leveraging opportunity and driving performance personally and by collaborating with others, has included:
Two decades, rising to Managing Director, spent growing the Johnston Campbell Ltd Financial Planning and Wealth Management practice with a committed team of colleagues.
Leading two management buyouts and central to 20 acquisition discussions including with FTSE 100, NYSE listed, AIM listed and London-based private equity firms.
Mentored world-class financial advisers in Singapore and Vietnam within a joint venture.
Was awarded the prestigious Top of the Table recognition three times, in New Orleans, Las Vegas and Colorado. This honour is bestowed by Million Dollar Round Table, a professional international organisation dedicated to developing the top 5% of financial advisers worldwide.
No.1 adviser within Equitable Life NI within two years of joining and with no previous experience. Then as NI manager, led his team to be No.1 in their Region and joint No.1 Nationally by % variance against business production target.
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A (Limited) Opportunity
Raymond retired from Johnston Campbell Ltd on 31st December 2020 and then founded and launched Birchgrove Ventures Ltd in January 2021, primarily as a result of feedback and requests from a small number of elite business owners and leaders in Northern Ireland.
Having spent many years acquiring, growing then selling what became a market leading business and as part of that journey dealt extensively with business owners in NI, GB, America and Asia in particular, Raymond’s key objective is to maximise financial outcomes for a small number of handpicked business owner client partners specifically in one or more of:
The roles and responsibilities of MD / CEO / Chairman
Setting Board level strategy
Corporate governance
Managing a business and fellow Directors
Growing a business by building profitable revenue and managing costs
Director / Partner mentoring
Conflict resolution
Priming a business for sale / managing potential acquirers / post sale considerations
An absolutely confidential and discrete listening ear …. as leadership can be lonely
What To Expect
The select group is likely to comprise owners of potentially lucrative business start-ups, owners of businesses that are currently enjoying or seeking exceptional future growth and owners of mature businesses who wish to take off the table in part or full the value they have created, to enjoy it with their families and chosen beneficiaries.
Together with a highly experienced collegiate team of like-minded professionals from across tax, legal, private equity, commercial property and financial planning / wealth management disciplines, Raymond wishes to support, encourage and enable this exclusive group of business owners to achieve their personal and business objectives.
He’ll do so by working alongside them over time, where they and he are convinced he can add discernible value and maximise financial outcomes by sharing his experiences with them. If appropriate and invited to do so, Raymond would consider committing his personal capital and taking an equity stake for, ultimately, mutual gain and enjoyment.
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