The Woodsford Consulting team

Yves Bonavero – chairman
	Yves was born and educated in Paris. He holds a First Class Honours degree in Philosophy and German, as well as an MA, from Oxford University.Yves started his business career in commodities at ED&F Man, becoming Group Chief Executive Officer in 1987, aged 34. He retired from the City in 1990, and has since held a number …

Jonathan Barnes – CEO
	Jonathan’s family business was cotton spinning in the north-west, but he started his career in the law. He joined City law firm DJ Freeman in 1987 and specialised in commercial property. Clients ranged from the developers of Spitalfields, opposite Liverpool Street station, to overseas institutional investors, entrepreneurial private property companies and listed occupiers. Jonathan was made partner at DJ Freeman before moving to Lewis…

Olivier Bonavero – director
	Olly graduated from Queen’s College, Oxford with a 2:1 in modern languages and joined commodity trader ED&F Man from university. He rose to become Head of Global Trading and, at 28, was appointed board director of ED&F Man Sugar – a 2,300 employee company with a multi-billion USD turnover. Olly managed a USD 350m plus futures and options position as well as the world’s largest international physical sugar trading book, buying and selling …

Mark Spiteri – director
	Mark is an economics graduate from the London School of Economics. He started his career in 1997 at Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers), where he trained as a management consultant and was admitted into the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)…

Tom Porter – consultant
	Tom is an economics graduate and joined us in 2008 after four years at Nissan UK.Tom’s role at Nissan was to support the franchise dealerships to achieve the company’s sales and profit objectives. He covered 28 dealerships in the south and east, approximately 12.5% of the country, which was generating 11,000 new vehicle sales equating to an annual turnover of over £150m. Tom was also responsible for managing Nissan’s relationship with its largest franchise partner and supervised the addition of a new multi-million pound dealership…

Russell Collins – consultant
	Russell brings a wealth of property experience both in the UK residential market and emerging markets. With a strong focus on Eastern European investor and domestic markets, Russell has spent the last few years gaining market understanding specifically in Bulgaria.Previously Business Development Manager for a leading international property company, Russell has a strong understanding of product development and route to market strategising. Having consulted some of the largest AIM listed property funds in emerging markets, Russell has a clear understanding of the planning process, design analysis, property management and hotel operator schemes through to marketing and sales.

The accounts team
John Gledhill (FCA)	Margaret Braksal (FCCA)	Marios Ioannides