Ronny qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant whilst working for the nascent Channel 4 Television station, and it was there that he honed his skills as an innovator and relationship-builder. 

Following six years working in Paris and Luxembourg, where he built, from scratch, a successful client services administration company for an international fund management group, he returned to London to work as Group Finance Director, establishing a professional finance function. 

Breadth of Finance experience and expertise at a corporate level are naturally credentials SMEs prize highly, and over the course of his career Ronny diversified into SME roles that often saw him take responsibility for business operations, technology and HR functions, as well as Finance, enabling him to provide integrated strategic advice to business owners. 

His SME experiences have stood him in good stead in many ways. He has developed a flexible and hands-on approach that works well for business owners and their key stakeholders, but at the same time he goes way beyond day-to-day management of the status quo. Instead, he is resolved to relieve growing pains and enhance business success by developing meaningful strategies and improving the flow of business-critical information to management. 

Over his career, Ronny’s successes have included: 

• Taking a business from zero to hero - Ronny’s work with a savvy but untrained entrepreneur in the retail merchandising space saw him mentor and advise the business owner on everything from meeting structure, to staff motivation and incentive schemes, to strategy and structural issues. That business is now on track to realise £20 million in revenue this financial year. 

• Retrofitting Finance for a successful business exit - Ronny’s software engineering client lacked Finance function in the business, which was standing in the way of maximising the business’s growth and value prior to the owner’s exit plans. By setting up the Finance function from scratch, and optimising R&D credits and cashflow, Ronny enabled the owner to plan a successful exit with a legacy of financial discipline in place. 

• Driving growth across the piece - Ronny’s work for an online educational provider spanned, as he put it “anything and everything”, but focusing on products, pricing, and cashflow in particular set a solid foundation for the business’s subsequent successful growth. 

• Smart planning, no guesswork - In two separate projects with a financial services client and an invoicing business, Ronny built a totally integrated financial model with the ability to demonstrate variable outcomes and impacts. This eliminated guesswork, and anchored the clients’ business plans, KPIs, and definitions of success in financial reality. It also enabled one of them to build a funding requirement forecast and raise significant investment. 

• Complex business, set up simply - Established Dutch operations for UK company including planning for staffing, meeting the strict requirements of Dutch regulators, Transfer Pricing issues, and revenue generation. 

• Due diligence to drive performance – The MD of an insurance company wanted a review of its finance function to determine whether they had the most appropriate staffing and systems in place. Ronny’s work resulted in numerous enhancements to personnel and systems within the department, creating a more growth-focused and resilient unit. 

• Business Advisory
• Strategic Planning
• Business Healthcheck
• Business Plans
• Forecasting
• Cash Flow Management
• Due Diligence

1. Professional Services
2. Education
3. Financial Technology
4. Financial Services
5. Media
6. Property Management

Ronny has always enjoyed keeping fit and now cycles regularly, undertakes gym work and Ceroc, a modern jive dance.

Additionally, Ronny makes podcasts and mentors to students and post-graduates at the University of Westminster. He also enjoys reading, especially modern history, and has just taken up the electric guitar.