Autore: Jonathan Harrison

Jonathan Harrison is a Chartered Accountant (FCA) and a Fellow of the Institute of Directors (FInstD) with experience in quoted and unquoted companies. Previously he spent 16 years at Intercontinental Hotels Corporation, USA, (now UK based IHG plc.) where he held various executive financial roles covering Europe, Middle East and Africa. He also managed the financial integration of Grand Metropolitan Hotels Limited into Intercontinental Hotels. In 1989 he joined the Boddington Group plc, as Finance Director establishing a new division of branded hotels and restaurants. He later became Operations Director of Village Leisure hotels responsible for the operation of six leisure hotels. While still at the Boddington Group, having proved himself as a trouble-shooter, he was assigned as Finance Director of Country house retirement homes Limited and within 18 months nearly doubled the number of nursing homes to 31, later leading the sale of the business by auction to BUPA. In March 1997 he led a ú92m management buy-in of 25 hotels from Queens Moat house plc with Duke Street Capital, and six months later managed the refinancing of County hotels Group plc with a dual listed bond offering in Luxembourg. In January 1999 the company was successfully sold to regal hotel Group plc. achieving a 30% internal rate of return. In 1999 he joined topnotch health Clubs plc, overseeing a fast track eleven week listing on aIM in March 2000, obtained additional bank finance and grew the company from five to twenty health clubs within 18 months. In 1999 he became seed capital investor and Non executive Director (NeD) of UK explorer Limited. After obtaining venture capital investment, winning a major contract, he successfully completed a trade sale in January 2005. As a Business angel, he also invested in one start-up and three other early stage businesses and continues to look for similar opportunities. In 2004 he joined a new mineral exploration company as Finance Director and oversaw the listing of Sirius Minerals plc (formerly Sirius exploration plc) on aIM in august 2005 with a .ú2m market capital. After a series of acquisitions, the company became the only UK listed potash exploration company,