The Business Whisperer announces new Board of Advisor members

Posted: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:03:42 +0100

The business rebuilding organisation, The Business Whisperer, today announced two heavyweight appointments to their Board of Advisors. These are international business coach and speaker Sue Stockdale, and agri-business expert Gerry Scully who is Programme Manager for Rural Development with Teagasc. The Business Whisperer is the first company in the Irish market offering viable Irish SMEs a 'one-stop-shop' solution to the cash flow problems magnified by the current economic climate in just seven days.

"The Business Whisperer is very pleased to have secured these two significant appointments", said Deborah Lee Marlow, founder of The Business Whisperer, "It is essential for a business such as this to have an experienced and well connected Board of Advisors. Sue Stockdale and Gerry Scully bring an unparalleled wealth of experience and strategic knowledge with them. I am looking forward to working with them both".

Sue Stockdale's career has spanned over 20 years in professional and executive staff development. She works with all sizes of businesses from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, helping them achieve exceptional performance. Sue Stockdale is highly respected in the international women's enterprise sector. She is a successful business author and as an international athlete was the first British woman to reach the magnetic North Pole. 

Gerry Scully is an acknowledged expert in the world of agriculture and especially agri-business having 30 years experience in the agri-industry. He is immediate past President of the Association of Agricultural Scientists and a former member of the Galway County and City Enterprise Board and the Board of the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology. His current post of Programme Manager for Rural Development covers on-farm business development, rural tourism and the expanding artisan food market.

The Business Whisperer is a new type of business, rescuing stressed small and medium businesses (SMEs) through increasing cash flow. This crack team of successful Irish and international business owners and entrepreneurs take just seven days to identify how cash flow can be improved. The Business Whisperer team provide a compact service, with an innovative 'no win-no fee' guarantee: if they can’t prove a business will save money, they don’t charge.

The post-boom economy has created a critical need in Ireland for a service to help SMEs source and access increased cash flow. The Business Whisperer does this through combination of debt consolidation, increased sales, improved efficiencies, outside capital and innovative financial management.

Last year Irish business liquidations rose by a staggering 400%. Many of these companies were well run solid business that simply ran out of cash, as the banks (the same banks that the taxpayer recently paid billions of Euros to ‘bale out’) virtually stopped commercial lending and severely restricted access to overdraft facilities. As Deborah Lee Marlow succinctly points out “It’s simply cheaper for the taxpayer to keep a good business in business”.

Date: 3 June 2009
Contact: Deborah Lee Marlow,  The Business Whisperer, Tourmakeady, Co. Mayo.
Mobile: 085 1598831
Tel: 094 9502999
Email: deborah@thebusinesswhisperer.ie