Jeremy Jensen - Partner

Jeremy Jensen has extensive experience at board level in crisis management, risk management and turnaround in a career spanning 25 years in the UK and overseas.

He has managed the disposal of multiple distressed assets including large and small trading businesses in the UK, US and Far East, the management and disposal of significant property portfolios and the formation of joint ventures.

Jeremy is currently a Director of NHP/ Libra a £1.3bln property company as Chief Restructuring Officer to run and represent the company through its lender refinancing. In April 2009 he was appointed as a Non Executive Director of McCarthy and Stone PLC following its restructuring. He is also a Director of Transform, one of the largest private cosmetic surgery businesses in the UK.

In the Media and Telecoms sector he has worked for Reuters, Factiva and latterly Cable and Wireless where he was on the board of C&W Europe, UK, America and Asia (Turnover 2.0 billion), as interim Chief Executive and Chief Financial Officer in the period 2005- 2007, setting up the turnaround and integrating the £750m Acquisition of Energis. He was responsible for the rationalisation of over 900 properties in the UK and overseas including an £80m sale and lease back of central London properties.

In 2003 - 2004 he managed the separation and disposal of a large FTSE100 subsidiary through Chapter 11, and the disposal of IDC communications to Softbank in Japan.

He was Director of Audit and Global Risk management at Reuters Group between 1999 and 2001 responsible for implementing governance processes to comply with the Combined Code.

He was Chief Financial Officer of Reuters Japan and a founder Director on the board of Safetynet Japan a joint Venture between KDD, Reuters and Safetynet UK between 1994 and 1997.

Prior to this he held a number of senior general management and finance positions in the Middle East and Africa.

In 1987 he raised funding through private equity for Data Entry International a private data processing company where he was a Director on the board.

Jeremy qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen in London, holds a degree in Economics and Economic History from the London School of Economics and is a Trustee of Marie Curie Cancer Care in the UK