Welcome to Zoom Professionals.
A place where we help each other to grow.

Broad Experience

Starting with the management of the family hotel business and subsequently with Grand Metropolitan and the Burton Group – the first half of my career was taken up in business operations. This has given me a unique ability to understand the operational pressures you face in running your business and the value to you of someone who will take away some of the “hassle factor” of managing people.

My experience gained working in personnel and human resources with WHSmith, Whitbread/Marriott, UNITE and Securitas, gives you the opportunity to benefit from the experiences of some of our most well known companies.

Detailed Knowledge

Working with these major organisations allowed me to become an expert in a number of areas:

• Managing change and reorganisation as the needs of the business change, including redundancy, retraining, assessment and recruitment; enabling me to help you with the people issues as your business changes;
• Negotiating exits of people no longer suited to the needs of the business – as your business changes, you may wish to end the contracts of people whose skills, knowledge and ability no longer suit your business but this can be risky in terms of claims for unfair dismissal. I can help you to reduce that risk and assist you to part on good terms;
• Transferring employees from one employer to another as businesses were bought and sold or functions outsourced. TUPE is a complicated and ever changing area of employment law – to say nothing of being very time consuming at a time when you want to focus your energies elsewhere. My experience in successfully managing both large and small-scale TUPE transfers will enable you to do just that;
• Setting up processes for employee consultation – this is a requirement for all businesses and is proven to improve productivity. However, it takes time and involves training and coaching to get the best business outcomes from consultation. I have set up successful consultation mechanisms in businesses with between 50 and 5,000 employees;
• Supporting, developing and coaching line managers to resolve discipline and grievance matters. Be sure that your managers are well trained and supported to manage these issues.

Plain English

I enjoy gaining an understanding of different businesses and people; adding value to individuals and teams to help them to make their businesses even more successful.

My ability to provide advice in plain language, telling it how it is in the real world and providing solutions that are tailored to business needs and not the “fluffy”, “pie in the sky” or complicated “legal speak” so often encountered by small business people, has proved invaluable to the managers with whom I have worked.

Dan is an Associate Solicitor employed by Trowers & Hamlins, one of the few International Law firm with an office in the South West. He specialises in advising regional and national clients on varied litigation matters, including Consumer Rights Act claims, neighbourly disputes, Insurance disputes, and Professional Negligence. If you have a legal matter with which he cannot assist you, then he will certainly know someone who can.

I have been in the Merchant services sector for over 2 years. I really love what I do and enjoy making sure my customers and businesses that I speak to are able to take card payments. I always take time to learn about businesses so I am able to offer the best advice or solution for what they need and to make sure they are not paying over the odds.

Prior to this I worked within the retail sector for a number of years, I started at the very bottom and worked my way to Area Manager. I have always specialised in helping businesses grow and with my move into the payment system sector, it fits all my skill sets as I have worked at both ends of the products.

I am also a qualified English Teacher and teach English as a foreign language. I have been doing this for over 16 years. The majority of my students are from Italy but I also teach students in Russia and Japan.

I’m passionate about helping businesses win more profitable work. I do this through my flagship program called Hypergrowth, a combination of training and consulting backed up as one-to-one coaching to set up systems and create behaviors that result in more leads, deals and revenue.

provide high level and holistic advice, mainly to directors, professionals, private and retired clients helping them with practical solutions to the financial issues that concern them most.

My advice covers all areas of wealth management, including:

✅ Retirement planning
✅ Wealth preservation
✅ Savings and Investments
✅ Tax and Estate Planning

More details are available on my website at www.orestonewealth.co.uk

Based in Torbay, my emphasis is on maintaining a long-term relationship with my clients and to provide them with a source of trusted advice as their financial needs evolve over the years.

Start Point Finance is one of the South West’s leading independent providers of business finance solutions based in Bristol and South Devon. We have over 30 years’ experience of helping businesses and public services secure cost-effective quick working capital to finance growth and smooth out short term challenges.

From unsecured loans and invoice discounting to asset finance and commercial mortgages we access a wide range of banks to deliver solutions to improve your business cash flow.

We articulate your company credit profile and finance requirements to the appropriate funders to create competition and reduce costs. In a rapidly changing market having a knowledgeable helping hand who understands what is achievable can strengthen your position to transact efficiently and effectively.

I have been working in the financial industry for over 20 years and enjoy the challenge my clients give me. It’s an exciting role as every day is different.

I enjoy meeting new clients and getting to know their stories and thinking about ways I can help them. I pride myself on giving an outstanding service and find that – in return – my clients recommend me to others.

I offer a free no obligation consultation to find out what the best solutions are for my clients.

• If you have an existing mortgage with 4 months left to run
• If you are looking to move
• If you are looking to protect yourself and your family
• If you are looking to protect your business and employees

I am professionally qualified with CeMap levels 1,2 & 3

Healthcare Planning

We all know that healthcare is changing. As medical techniques advance and more treatments become available the cost of providing care is also increasing and many of us don’t realise just how expensive good care can be or when we may need it. That’s why having a health insurance policy can be a really good thing. We call it healthcare planning.

What we do

Coralline Health facilitates fast access to high quality medical diagnosis and treatment through a comprehensive choice of healthcare products for individuals, families and businesses via our insurer partner. With backgrounds in the NHS and the insurance sector we have unrivalled knowledge and expertise; we are both professional and approachable and we are always available to listen to you so that we can provide the best service and advice that is underpinned by honesty, integrity and trust.

Value for money

We operate as part of Western Provident Association (WPA) whose policies are competitively priced to provide value for money. So if you are looking at health insurance for the first time or you think that you are paying too much for an existing policy – or maybe you are worried about the effects on your premium that a claim may have, please contact us as we are here to help and we provide free consultations with no obligation; we simply want to help you to get the best value from your health insurance.

We understand it’s not always easy running a business with all the challenges you face when you don’t get the advice and support you want to help you.

This is why we have spent the last twenty-five years helping business owners be more profitable, have better cashflow and pay less tax.

As Chartered Accountants we have the expertise and experience in helping business owners get more of what they want from their businesses.

Our passion is combining business and human nature to create a company brand that will stand out from the crowd. With a team of designers, web developers, social media gurus and copywriters we look after all business sizes from the growing SME to the established international companies.

Without showing off, our services are flexible and independently focused making us proud to show a return on investment. We have more than marketing experience, we have invested and ran businesses in several commercial sectors therefore we understand how a business work