London March 2025 - Annual joint TMA UK - London Business School Event

Chairman of Soho Estates

Steve Norris’s first turnaround was a Ford main dealer group in Bournemouth in 1971. He’s done half a dozen since and advised on several others. He is currently Chairman of Soho Estates, of Evtec Automotive Group, and of EVOAI Limited. He is a senior advisor to Liverpool Street Capital Advisors and to LM Stern. He has chaired a FTSE 300, an AIM company and served on the boards of three other listed companies in UK and US.”

K2 Partners and Moderator

Tony Groom is CEO and an Investment Partner with K2 Business Partners, a boutique firm focussed on hands-on investment in struggling and financially constrained SMEs that have huge growth potential. Current investments include Metapraxis, that provides financial, planning & analysis advice and software; Tokenbridge, a block chain platform for investing in funds; MPS Concrete Solutions that repairs waterproof concrete; Build Homes Better that manufactures building products; and several service other companies covering industrial manufacturing, IP & technology, IT services, PR and marketing.”

Adviser

A widely experienced Company Director and Adviser to SME businesses with extensive financial & management experience of enabling business owners to navigate change throughout the business lifecycle from start-up to exit. Julia has worked collaboratively, pre-empting and sensitively responding innovatively to challenges and creating solutions that sustain growth and redevelopment.

Julia practised with PwC, Deloitte & KPMG over more than 30 years leading teams delivering financial & restructuring services in the South East including providing introductions to a well-established network of businesses, bankers, private investors & legal advisors. Since 2013 Julia has worked as an Independent Consultant, Director and Coach to SME business owners, shareholders and family businesses.

Interpath Advisory

Ailar is an Insolvency Practitioner and Certified Fraud Examiner with over fifteen years of experience in both corporate and personal insolvency matters. Ailar joined Interpath in 2018 (when it was known as KPMG Restructuring), with a focus on contentious insolvency matters leading complex investigations in the UK and overseas, asset tracing and bringing legal actions to maximise recoveries for creditors and victims of fraud.

Gordon Brothers

Daniela Pontonutti is Director at Gordon Brothers leading the EMEA Business Analysis team responsible for the capture and analysis of millions of industry and asset data points to support faster and more informed decisions across the business. She joined the firm in 2014 and has worked on projects across asset valuation, recovery and capital deployment.

Daniela has a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Bath and is a Chartered Management Accountant. She is fluent in English, Spanish and Italian.