John Phillips Managing Director John trained as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse & Co, qualifying in 1980. Thereafter he has worked as Chief Executive, Finance Director and Non Executive Director for a number of Public and Private Companies. During this time he has negotiated several venture capital and private investments into his businesses, and delivered three 'exits'. He founded Mercia in 2004 and focuses on Development Capital Funding & Non Executive advice, he has a special interest in the Environmental Industries sector. j.phillips@merciacorp.co.uk Perry Offer Director Perry is a Chartered Management Accountant with over 20 years experience of significant and rapid profit improvement as Chief Executive & Finance Director in a number of Public and Private Companies. He has significant experience at all points of the supply chain, and a particular interest in 'Values Based' customer research, organisational restructuring, and 'Business Process' improvement. p.offer@merciacorp.co.uk Steve Baker Associate Steve is a Chartered Accountant with over 25 years industrial accounting experience, including multinationals and private companies in a wide range of industries. He specialises in financial forecasting and management accounting support for clients. s.baker@merciacorp.co.uk Peter Kersh Associate Peter is an International Sales & Marketing Consultant with over 20 years of global management and sales / marketing experience. He has broad sector expertise in a variety of Public & Private Companies. He speaks five languages, is non-executive director of a number of companies and is currently Deputy Chairman of the Regional International Trade Board Yorkshire / Humber and Chairman of the South Yorkshire International Trade Centre. He has particular interest in strategic alliances with major corporations and distributors, overseas licenses, joint ventures, startup exporting / pioneering products. p.kersh@merciacorp.co.uk