Michael Glynn – Principal, London

Michael is a Consultant and part-time Finance Director specialising in Merger & Acquisitions, MBO, Performance Improvement / Business Recovery and Corporate Finance with an emphasis on the marketing services and the wider media sector. 

He qualified as an Accountant in 1987; then entered the Marketing Services sector with senior finance roles first within an AIM quoted design business and then within the WPP Group plc for four years as UK Finance Director at Hill & Knowlton UK Ltd. (1989-93)

In 1994 he invested in his first MBO as FD at Harrison Cowley Group as they exited Saatchi & Saatchi plc.  After 3 years of streamlining and developing HC, he sold his stake in 1997 and became a full-time management consultant and consultant FD.  He was then principally handling M&A, interim and recovery projects in sectors including Film, Television, Design, Advertising, Media, Brand Consulting and PR.

He invested in a second MBO venture when he joined the Freud Communications MBO team in 2001 to advise on the buy-out from Omnicom Inc, initially as FD for the first year, then in a non-exec role until the sale to Publicis in 2005.  He continued his consultancy career throughout this period and extended his involvement in undertaking part-time Finance Director roles when he joined the FD Centre in July 2007.