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Although he qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Grant Thornton back in the early ‘70’s, Malcolm was always keen to leave the “Profession” behind and quickly took up his first post in Industry with The W H Smith Group, running the finance side of 14 transport outlets in the Midlands which not only embraced newspaper distribution, but also a general parcels network. This was followed by a number of posts in the Automotive field with franchised car and truck dealerships at both Accountant and Finance Director levels, a spell as Finance Director at Silverstone International Motor Racing Circuit, and also as Managing Director of a new Car Rental company which was quickly acquired by Sixt. Whilst at one truck dealership, Malcolm got his first taste of funding a business through a Venture Capital source, 3i.

In 1994 Malcolm set up The Project Partnership International, a small network of professionals, assisting SME’s to raise business finance. This took a variety of forms; equity funding, bank funding and commercial mortgages. It not only involved UK businesses, as Malcolm and some colleagues within The Project Partnership also worked on cases in the far east, principally Taiwan and China.

Malcolm joined Beer & Partners in 1994, having been impressed with the way that the network had grown, along with its reputation for delivering industry leading results for clients.

As a result of his keen interest in the Business Angel field, he became an Investor himself, and has experienced the two extremes of losing an entire investment, but also the euphoria that goes along with seeing one of them achieve strong growth. The latter case, Trojan Electronics Ltd, of which he is Finance Director, was a start up in 2002 with 4 employees, now employing over 80.