Richard Dee International is driven by Brian Smith who has a wealth of experience in all aspects of accounting and business advice, especially businesses in the growth cycle of their lives (and start ups).
Brian has a Business Studies honours degree (British), majoring in accounting and marketing, studied ACCA and transferred to CIMA. He is also skilled in HR, systems implementation and process costing.
Brian has had a wide range of experience, over 30 years, in the manufacturing, engineering and project management sectors in Europe, UK, Ireland, Denmark, USA, and Japan. For the last 5 years, South Africa.
Industry sectors worked in include, injection moulding, plastics, motor vehicle parts, car park equipment, automated materials handling, steel distribution, aviation panels and is also experienced in corporate retail, banking and mining.
Brian works closely with start up and growth companies and specialises in due diligence, business plan writing, presentation to investors and post investment management of financial reporting.