I’m an Insolvency Practitioner at RSM Tenon Debt Solutions, based in our Manchester city centre office.
Originally from the West Midlands, I moved up to the North West in 1997 to study Law at Lancaster University.
After graduating, I took a year out in Greece where I taught English as a foreign language before coming back to the UK and training as a solicitor at the College of Law in York.
I began my career working in the insolvency and litigation department of a large mobile phone network in Staffordshire. I dealt with small and medium sized businesses that had got into financial difficulty and couldn’t pay their mobile phone bills. At that time, IVAs were starting to become a popular debt solution and I’d often speak to Insolvency Practitioners over the telephone, which first sparked my interest in the profession.
I decided to move to Manchester in 2004 and I’ve been working in the debt advice industry ever since, joining RSM Tenon in 2006.
RSM Tenon is a member of the Debt Resolution Forum that aims to raise standards throughout the debt advice industry and as part of my job I’m responsible for training our advisors for their debt resolution exams.
Outside work, I studied in Germany as part of my degree and so speak the language, which hasn’t proven to be particularly useful in the office, but I’m always on the lookout for a cheap deal on flights back to Germany for a long weekend to see friends.
I get a lot of satisfaction out of my job, helping people through what is usually a very stressful and difficult time of their lives and seeing them come out the other side. People come to us for so many reasons and no two clients are ever the same. It’s really important that people get the right advice and that everything is explained at a level that’s right for them. There really is no such thing as a silly question and I think an internet forum is the perfect place to get answers to questions that people might otherwise not have asked or thought of.