Jim Halliday FCA, Client Finance Director -

Jim qualified with a small firm and went on to become a manager with Ernst & Young before spending 14 years in Du Pont & Conoco’s oil and chemical businesses, where his role was to manage change and continuously improve performance, particularly in the UK and Scandinavia.

From 1994 until joining FD Solutions, Jim undertook a variety of projects, many in the energy sector.

• At Independent Energy he was co-founder of a new entrant into the privatised electricity market for which he was instrumental in obtaining and managing financing through equity, project and working capital, as well as implementing the systems (Pegasus ‘Opera’) policies and procedures to enable rapid growth.
• At Aquila Energy he integrated a newly-acquired retail gas sales operation, setting up a system vital to hedging its margins.
• At National Grid Transco he managed the reorganisation of the contract engineering services division, helping it on its path to independence and profitability.
• At Bywaters, a waste management company, he avoided potential financial difficulties by completing a sales invoice computerisation project, establishing an effective credit control function, and upgrading Microsoft’s ERP system - Great Plains.
• At PVAXX, a biotech business developing new polymers and other environmentally sensitive but economically viable materials, he re-engineered the business model from production through to licensing.