Meetings are run locally in the North West and provide both educational and networking opportunities for managing partners and other senior members of the management team. MPF North West connects the local professional services community with the wider MPF network, whilst generating real value for members closer to home. As a membership organisation, all our meetings are member only. However, those interested in joining are welcome to attend one event as our guest in order to get a feel for the Panel. See current event or download previous meeting report
Please contact your local Regional Director or MPF Executive Director, Paul Lemon if you wish to hear more about our events and/or membership.
The MPF collects confidential data and conducts regular surveys amongst MPs and members of the management team based worldwide. Leading consultants in strategy and leadership, appointed by the MPF Executive Committee, prepare monthly surveys on strategy and leadership issues, summarise findings, and make presentations at MPF events held in key cities worldwide (London, New York, Frankfurt etc). All findings are released for free into the public domain to ensure professional firms everywhere have access to reliable facts on key management issues. more...
The MPF is the most powerful lobby group in professional services, launching a new campaign every six months. MPF campaigns confront the professions on particular issues aiming to empower the management team and help connect the local professional services community into the MPF network.
Current campaigns include:
- In search of Management talent: A “prospectus” for the professions
- Time Management: MPF Management Diary - time well spent?
- Partner Career Paths: Exploring the sound of silence
- Leadership Selection: Less politics, more transparency, clear reward
- Unsung Heroes: No-one should be treated as a second class citizen
We aim to remain at the cutting-edge of business thinking in professional services through regular surveys of our members and global leaders in marketing, HR, IT, finance etc, while allowing members to canvass each other on a management issue through MPF Pulse.
Chair: Mike Perls is Managing Director of MC2, the leading independent marketing agency in the North specialising in the financial and professional services sector. Formerly a business manager of The Manchester Evening News following a spell at The Observer in the early '90s, Mike was named in North West Business Insider's 42 under 42 class of 2006 and is regional director of the PM Forum, as well as a member of the NSPCC Business Committee.
Regional Director: Phil Jepson qualified as a Solicitor in 1989 and has spent 14 years working in 3 Top 50 law firms, 7 as a Partner. With experienced gained in the North West, Midlands, London and Yorkshire Phil has led teams, multi sited business groups and an office. In 2000 he went through a formal outplacement process which led to his change of career into search and consulting. He worked as a Director at an established legal search firm before setting up Jepson Holt in 2004. Phil completed his MBA with Distinction at Manchester Business School and has developed a particular interest in Strategy and Innovation and how they apply to particular markets.
Michael Brabner is Managing Partner of Brabners Chaffe Street. Michael’s expertise has particular emphasis on acquisitions and disposals, MBO’s and MBI’s, corporate finance and venture capital, company reconstructions and reorganisations and joint ventures and corporate and business advice to retained clients. He is also a director of a number of private companies.
Tim Entwistle - Tim is an assurance and advisory partner with PKF (UK) LLP and is the managing partner for the firm's four northern offices in Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds and Sheffield. He has considerable commercial experience in both the private and public sectors and during his career with PKF he spent five years in the firm's London corporate finance department. Tim acts for a wide variety of clients across a range of industries, including a number of the firm's professional practices, principally solicitors, and has been closely involved in offering the full range of professional advice to these clients.
Tony O’Gara is Branch Director at Willis in Manchester. He has 28 years experience in the Insurance Broking sector in the North West and is a Chartered Insurance Practicioner. Tony actually started his career with Willis in 1981, in the interregnum he worked for an independent broker, held a regional role with Marsh and most recently was Branch Director of Griffiths & Armour in Manchester. Tony joins the MPF committee after three years on the Board of Pro Manchester.
Andrew Hamilton is a founder member of, and lead director in BNP Paribas Real Estate's Manchester office, where he also leads a team of chartered valuation surveyors, providing valuation advice to a wide range of clients throughout the North of England. He has over twenty years experience in the northwest commercial property market. He has been employed in private practice within Manchester for his entire professional career, having worked for both Dunlop Haywood and Sanderson Weatherall in the city. His roles in private practice have encompassed all aspects of surveying including agency and landlord and tenant experience. He has, however, recently concentrated on the valuation of all types of commercial property for secured lending, asset and other purposes.
Joy Kingsley is Senior Partner of law firm Pannone LLP. Under her leadership the firm has grown from 200 to 700 people and from billings of £6m to £44.5m. She was the motivating force in the firm’s 3rd place ranking in the Sunday Times Top 100 Companies 2007
Michael Shaw has been managing partner of Cobbetts since 1996, prior to which he was a property lawyer and responsible for establishing the firm's very successful banking team. During his time as managing partner he has introduced a number of radical practices in terms of management systems and operational structure focused increasingly on added benefit and value for clients. The firm has been taken through six mergers by Michael en route to establishing a national Top 50 practice.