About Us

We are professional advisers with backgrounds in the Big 4 professional advisory firms or blue chip companies (but at 25% of the cost!).

We are absolutely committed to providing our clients with quality advice & excellent client service.

We invest the necessary time to really understand our clients' businesses and needs.

Another key component of Aspire Advisory is regular open and honest communication with our clients while working together as one team to achieve our clients' goals.

We continually seek feedback to ensure our clients are happy and to improve our service. There is always room for improvement in all businesses. 

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you would like to discuss any business concerns or opportunities. We urge you to take action sooner rather than later in seeking professional advice to ensure you are doing all you can to protect your business and your livelihood in the current economic climate.

We wish you good luck in both your personal and business life.

Kind regards,
 

The AA Team

Graham Carr 

Corporate Finance & FBIA

Director

Nick Burrage

Business Advisory

Director

Daniel Nippard

Business Advisory

Director

Graham has advised owner managed and middle market businesses for the last 20 years.

Graham acts as a non-executive Director for a number of small businesses advising on strategy, refinancing, flotation, acquisitions, disposals and performance improvement.

A recent role involved devising and delivering a turnaround plan, working alongside the Managing Director: Operational efficiency increased by 50%, overhead elements were decreased by up to 40%, and profitability increased by 300%+.

During his career, Graham has advised on over 100 deals, on the buy side and the sell side, for corporate & private equity clients. 

In 2009 Graham saved a client £0.5m on a £5m acquisition through advice on price adjustment mechanisms and SPA definitions.

Specialisms: Profit Improvement, Financial Due Diligence and training

Interests: Skiing, tennis, football, cycling, mountain biking.

Interests: Motocross, cycling, mountain biking, skiing and technology.

Specialisms: Project & Programme Management, PRINCE2, insurance, Financial services and IT.

Interests: Cooking, reading, football, rugby, squash.

Naomi Thornton

Corporate Finance

Director

Kelly Carr

Business Advisory & FBIA

Director

Paul Newton

Business Advisory & FBIA

Director

Naomi advises clients on Sale & Purchase Agreements (SPAs), price adjustment mechanisms, and completion accounts disputes.

Naomi has advised on more than 400 M&A transactions, ranging in value from £1m to £1bn, across all major industries. She has advised many blue chip companies and a significant number of private equity firms.

Naomi's advice on SPAs bridges the gap between legal and financial advisors on transactions.

Clients have said that her advice "adds a great deal of value", providing investors with "protection they simply would not have been able to create for themselves".

Naomi helped one client, hoping for an award of £10m on a completion accounts dispute, to realise an award of almost £20m.

Specialisms: Sale & Purchase Agreements, completion accounts and disputes.

Interests: Reading, ukulele, drawing & Fast Scrabble (5 mins per player)

Client satisfaction and developing trusted long term relationships are our primary aim at Aspire Advisory.

Kelly is well known for having exceptionally good people skills, having the core skills of empathy, commercial awareness and communication. Coupled with her technical marketing and client care knowledge and qualifications, Kelly is instrumental in advising clients on customer service and marketing.

Kelly also has the experience of having built a business from start up which adds real world experience to some of the issues our clients are facing.

Kelly gained a 1st degree in Business, French & German before starting working life at KPMG as a trainee accountant and then moving into marketing (still in KPMG). 

Specialisms: Marketing, Client Relationship Management, customer interviews and training.

Interests: Walking in the New Forest, photography, pub quizzes, learning languages & reading.

Paul is qualified in the administration and use of a variety of psychometric tools and has previous experience managing small and large scale sales teams.  Paul's previous experience includes several years with Thomas International, one of the world's leading psychometric providers.

Paul has helped large and small companies, in both the private and public sector, to improve employee productivity.

As a qualified accountant and being a professional magician in his spare time, Paul is able to simply communicate the psychometrics results and demonstrate how the information can be used in order to improve employee productivity, employee motivation and job satisfaction.

Paul helps client employees work better together to the benefit of the company's profitability.

Specialisms: Training, coaching and mentoring.

Interests: Magic, body language, playing with his daughter and walking the dog.