Primary Job Title Founder and MD Primary Organization 
The Mill Consultancy
Location Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
Website millconsultancy.co.uk Facebook View on Facebook LinkedIn View on LinkedIn X (Twitter) View on X
Jerry has extensive experience of strategic business improvement, fast growth leadership and management, preparation of business plans and prospectuses, and has raised finance across the board, from business angels and banks to VCs and a flotation on Nasdaq. He has broad commercial, operational and IT experience in both MD and FD roles and has
worked in the USA and Africa as well as the UK.
A chartered accountant with a law degree, Jerry trained and worked at Price Waterhouse and Deloittes 1981-1989. He held MD and FD positions within Stagecoach, the global bus and train operator, between 1989 and 1996 and then joined Select Software in 1996 as CFO and successfully took the company to a Nasdaq IPO, and then worked in California liaising with Wall St.
In July 2000 Jerry was headhunted to be MD at BCT in Devon, one of the largest ceramic tile manufacturers in the UK, to execute a turnaround and he successfully expanded revenue and improved production.
In late 2002 he established The Mill Consultancy, chartered accountants, specializing in corporate finance and business development advice. Jerry also has a number of non-executive roles, including Crowdcube and Cornish Mutual, and is past chairman of Cornish Sea Salt. In 2009 he also founded SouthWestfd Limited, which provides part time and interim finance directors to growing companies; the company now has a team of twelve qualified associates.
Jerry was President of the SW Society of Chartered Accountants in 2009/10 and is a member of the ICAEW Regional Strategy Board. He regularly produces articles and gives talks and seminars on subjects relevant to SME growth and financing.
