Richard Meek is a chartered accountant who qualified with Coopers & Lybrand, now PwC. He has extensive International experience with European and US Corporations across a number of industry sectors, including business services, media and telecommunications, from large multi-nationals to entrepreneurial private equity backed early stage businesses. This experience covers a number of varied M&A projects and driving strategic development in growing businesses. He lived and worked in Italy for many years. Most recently he worked for a small Private Equity advisory firm specialising in working with SMEs.