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Conrad Ford

Conrad Ford

Conrad Ford is the founder of Funding Options, an award-winning financial technology firm. Funding Options is an online business finance supermarket that links SMEs with alternative funding providers including marketplace lenders, challenger banks, asset financiers and data-driven lenders.

Funding Options has been designated by HM Treasury for the new mandatory bank referral scheme, meaning that all major UK banks are now legally required to work with Funding Options.

Conrad regularly appears in major national press and media discussing SME finance and is a chartered management accountant.

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Alan Price 

Alan PriceA leading authority on employment law and HR, Alan Price is chief operations officer at The Peninsula Group.

The Peninsula Group provides HR, employment law and health and safety support to over 75,000 businesses in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Alan is responsible for the leadership of the Group’s operations strategy.

With 18 years’ experience in employee relations, Alan is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), a Chartered Manager and Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), a certified practitioner and Fellow of the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI), and a member of the Canadian Human Resource Professional Association (HRPA).

In 2003, Alan was appointed to her Majesty’s Court and Tribunal Service and was one of the youngest judicial appointments to the Employment Tribunal Service, which he continues to hold.

For the last four years, Alan has been a charity trustee and non-executive director for the CIPD, which represents over 140,000 HR professionals worldwide. 

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