• Adrian Lawrence FCA

    Experienced Finance Professional, business turnarounds and Fintech specialist

  • Portfolio CFO / FD

    Director of Finance

     

    Experienced Head Of Finance with a demonstrated history of working in the transportation, ICT and business services sectors. Skilled in financial modelling, finance raising, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Entrepreneurship, Financial Accounting and Management. Strong finance professional, FCA qualified, graduated from Queen Mary, U. of London.

    Acquisitions and disposals plus turnaround situations.

     

  • Be the change you want to see in the world.

    MY MOTTO

  • Recent Positions

    Recent roles

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    Aspray 24

    Director of Projects 

    Sep 2018 – Dec 2018

    Business Turnaround specialist advising the board on cost reductions, saving initiatives, restructuring bank debt and repositioning group in marketplace.

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    Aspray 24

    Group Director of Finance

    Feb 2017 - Sept 2018

    Responsible for all aspects of finance, raising £7.1m of debt, production of Monthly and Annual Stat Accounts for £40m Transport and Logistics Group

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    Discount Domains Ltd

    Director of Finance

    July 2012 - Dec 2016

    Leading ICANN registrar, domain registration and web hosting solutions provider, responsible for Finance, SEO, Technical, Web Design and App Development teams

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    Search Solutions Ltd

    Managing Director

    Sept 2006 - July 2012

    Leading internet content publishing company, owner manager, responsible for all areas of business, SEO and web develpment teams. Private Equity Backed business.

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    Legion Security Plc

    Director of Finance & IT

    Jan 1999 - Sept 2006

    £52m provider of Manned Guarding and parking service solutions, founded 1918, responsible for all areas of Finance and IT

  • The Blog

    Thoughts, musings, and ruminations.

    February 15, 2021
    Github and Gitlabs are high quality places to share your code, often projects wish to become open source and use these platforms to engage with the developer community, often code is added then shared again, and in such a way crowsourced code develops. I am not very active or much of a coder...
    February 15, 2021
    Using youtube or Vimeo to promote your product or service is a great way to get traction, both of these service are very strong on the internet and have their own user and followers, so many in fact that they are virtually search engines in their own rights. Vimeo Our vimeo can be found here...
    Since 2016 I have been involved with a specialist London Mortgage broker, we generate leads in the Equity Release mortgage niche. What I like about this area is that Keith my partner is a great friendly guy, who I respect and have a lot of time for. It is also a great challenge as the area not...
  • My Contacts and web links

    Projects

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    Brass Kangaroo

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    Reporting Accounts

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    Vimeo

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    Gravatar

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    Article Alley

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    Moz

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    Reddit

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    Wordpress

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    Other WP

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    Flickr

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    Cllr A Lawrence

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    FD Capital

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    Allthebizz

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    Mailchimp

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    Google Sites

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    MS Edge

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    Anchor

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    RA on Strikingly

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    Patreon

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    Linktr

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    Linkee

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    Companies in the news

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    FD Capital

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    FD Capital

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    Tayisiya Lawrence

  • CONTACT ME! 

  • More

    Interesting places

    Sites I like

    Behance - Always a nice site.

    Zoom Info - a Great business information site.

    Crunchbase - The well respected investor site.

    Companies in the news - another great Strikingly site.

    Linkedin - Reporting Accounts page which works well.

    Portfolio CFO - Part time CFO's for hire.

    FD Capital - Mini Site

    ICAEW - My membership listing

    TED - My profile on TED the educational site
    TED - Ed - a video from my collection

    Exec Capital our Strikingly mini site.

    Interesting

    Blubrry - My podcasts.

    Cylex - Our listing.

    Find open - Our listing.

    Tripadvisor - My posts.

    Castovers - Our podcast community.

    Part Time FD's available - FD's available now

    FD's on Vimeo - Promo vid

    Linkedin - FD Capital's company page

    ICAEW - My listing as an FCA

    Beam - helping homeless in London

    FD Capital - Our Business Exit Preparation offering.

    Exec Capital - Our CEO Recruitment service.