Board of Directors

Ric is Executive Chairman of BTG, based in our Manchester office. He manages the strategic growth of BTG and leads a team of over 1,400 employees across 50 locations nationwide. Ric founded BTG, formerly Begbies Traynor Group, in 1989, establishing it as a market leader in financial and real estate advisory.

As part of BTG’s strategic growth journey, Ric has led a series of successful acquisitions, subsequently growing every division and service line, and tripling the size of the business in the last ten years. Under Ric’s leadership, the company floated on the Alternative Investment Market in August 2004, becoming the first insolvency specialist to list on the stock market.

Ric specialises in practice management and has considerable experience in financial turnaround and dispute resolution within professional practices.

Mark is the Group CEO, based in our London office. He is responsible for day-to-day leadership, overall business performance and the implementation of growth strategies. He retains management responsibilities for our financial advisory division, having developed BTG’s advisory offering in the UK and internationally.  

He specialises in restructuring and turnaround, with extensive experience advising on restructuring plans, establishing BTG as a mid-market leader in this field. He has substantial experience in the real estate sector, working on commercial and residential development projects in the UK and overseas and serving as a director of several UK and international property companies.

He has overseen numerous high-profile, complex assignments across a range of sectors. Notable cases include the first exit from administration via a restructuring plan and the first plan to implement a cross-class cram down of HMRC as a secondary preferential creditor. Mark also developed an entrepreneurial strategy to restructure and sell Southampton Football Club, overseeing the administration of a property finance PLC, and implementing a complex trading run‑off of its £0.6 billion loan portfolio alongside a debt structure totalling approximately £500 million.

Mark is a former president of the Insolvency Practitioners Association (IPA) and previously served on its membership and authorisation committee as well as its education and training committee. He also contributed to R3, the Association of Business Recovery Professionals, as a member of its general technical committee.

Mark is a licensed Insolvency Practitioner and, prior to joining BTG, he co‑founded a specialist boutique practice in the corporate recovery sector, bringing hands‑on entrepreneurial experience to his work.

Nick is Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and a member of the group’s management board. Nick joined the group in 2007 and was appointed to the board in 2010.

Nick is responsible for the group’s financial strategy, management and reporting and has executive oversight for IT and people strategy. Nick qualified as a chartered accountant with KPMG and previously held senior finance roles in United Utilities PLC and Vertex Data Science Limited, the business process outsourcer.

John was appointed to the board in 2007 as a non-executive director. He was previously an executive director of Caledonia Investments plc from 2003-2011 prior to which he worked for the Hambros Group for over 20 years, where he was an executive director of Hambros Bank and joint managing director of Hambro Countrywide. John also has extensive non-executive experience having been a director of more than 40 listed and private companies operating.

Mark was appointed to the board in 2017 as a non-executive director. He has significant property services experience as a result of his senior roles in major firms, including King Sturge as UK managing partner, when he negotiated the sale of the business to JLL. Following the acquisition, Mark was appointed as JLL’s UK chief operating officer until leaving the business in December 2016. During this time, he completed a number of UK acquisitions. Mark now runs his own consultancy business focussing on strategy and change in professional services businesses, and is the chairman of Jones Lang LaSalle Pension Trustees Limited.

Peter was appointed to the board in December 2019 as a non-executive director.

Peter has spent his career in information technology. In 2010, he co-founded and became chief executive officer at the AI company RAVN Systems which delivered digital transformation initiatives in the professional services industry. RAVN Systems was acquired by iManage, a leading vendor of document management systems for the legal and professional services industries in 2017 and following the acquisition, Peter served as VP of Strategy and Global Practice Director for iManage, until he left the business in October 2019.

Mandy was appointed to the board in February 2023 as a non-executive director. Mandy is a chartered accountant and experienced non-executive director. She joined EY in 1992 and spent 10 years working in professional roles in the firm. In 2002 she was appointed as EY's UK director of finance and operations and from 2007-2012 was the global director of finance and operations for EY's transaction advisory services and EY assurance services. Since 2012, Mandy has held a number of non-executive director positions in the financial and professional services sectors including at Punter Southall Group, Liontrust Asset Management plc, JP Morgan Investment Trust plc and Gowling WLG LLP, as well as in the not for profit sector at the Institute of Cancer Research; these roles included acting as chair of several audit committee and risk committees.