VAUGHAN EVANS is an independent strategy consultant, specialising in
business planning for corporate clients (www.backablebusinessplan.com) and
strategic due diligence for private equity (www.managingstrategicrisk.com).
He has been advising financiers on backing businesses for over twenty five
years and, on the other side of the table, has written many successful
business plans tailored to meeting backers' concerns. His book on business
planning, THE FINANCIAL TIMES ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO WRITING A BUSINESS PLAN:
HOW TO WIN BACKING TO START UP OR GROW YOUR BUSINESS, has been exceptionally
well received by both entrepreneurs and investors.
He also writes on career development, on how thinking of yourself as a
business can advance or transform your career. He came to realise some years
ago that the very tools he developed over the years in the analysis of
business prospects can be deployed, suitably adapted, to the analysis of an
individual's career prospects. They can be used to help maximise your
potential in your current job or shift to a new career, one where the
passion burns. Hence his BACKING YOU! range of books (www.backingu.com).
Vaughan is a dynamic and inspirational speaker on business and career topics
(www.backingu.com). He is an economics graduate of Cambridge University, an
Alfred P. Sloan fellow with distinction of London Business School and he
worked for many years at management consultants Arthur D. Little and
investment bankers Bankers Trust. A former resident of exotic lands such as
the British Virgin Islands, Borneo, Fiji, and Thailand, he hails from West
Wales and lives alongside Richmond Park in south-west London.
