Peter Wise

Mifa Star acts as finance and management consultants for a number of start up companies... assistance with Business Plans, forecasts, and raising finances, setting up the day to day business proceedures as well as strategies for going forwards.

I have also done marketing research into the sports market to assess the viability of some ideas I have had - the result..
*/ Cosloza Ltd - sports internet project: imminent at time of writing

Electronic Group was primarily involved in online payments via telecom billing.
I was the first formal Group CFO as it moved from France to Barcelona, Spain.
Tasks performed
*/ clean up French company system and balance sheet;
*/ set up accounting system/procedures for new Spanish HO;
*/ set up team to manage the accg/finances during a period of significant growth;
*/ established and managed a new structure for the group to reduce taxes;
*/ maintained relations with banks, auditors and other professional third parties

VGI was a Canadian Biotech Group quoted on Nasdaq (bought out by Bayer in 2001) involved in HIV and genetic matching.
I was the first European Finance Manager - tasks in approx order:
a. gain control of the French & Dutch companies accounts & Balance Sheets; b. close down the Dutch operations & sell off a "Profit Centre" of the French company;
c. establish a European team for accounting, order processing, reporting & inventory control;
d. oversee set up of the MFG Pro management & accounting package;
f. follow NASDAQ reporting deadlines;
g. evolved into being responsible for logisitics and HR (beginning of the 35hr week in France) as well as Finance;
h. general management

Imported Scottish specialist food products into Paris/France;
Consulted for a Scottish quality meat company;
Agent for an Italian Chianti wine selling into the UK.

Marketing, distributions,animation - all with objective to get products into the French market.

Cromadex was a Division of Industrial Paints, itself a division of Courtaulds PLC (since bought out by AKZO Nobel)
Network of distribution outlets for industrial paints - focus on smaller clients.
I was first finance manager in the continental Europe operations when we started with 3 people in a Paris HO. 5 years later we had c. 15 outlets in France & Germany.
I set up the accounting proceedures per the groups requirements, monthly reporting, and generally handheld the outlets in maintaining their records, collections, stocks...

Company provided labout to the oil rigs in the North Sea, alos had a small engineering division in Glasgow.
I was brought in by a "Company Doctor" who revived the Company for enough time to not lay people off, to pay off fiscal debts left by previous management and to be sold off.
I was responsible for the accounting and reporting of the engineering division, as well as other balance sheet tasks for the main business