Meetings are run locally in the South West and provide both educational and networking opportunities for managing partners and other senior members of the management team. MPF South 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: David Pester - Named ‘Managing Partner of the Year' in the 2007 British Legal Awards, has been Managing Partner of TLT since 2002. David is responsible for the firm's strategy and development and is regarded by market commentators as the driving force behind TLT's exceptional growth, impressive client wins, strong financial performance and growing national reputation. Chambers UK, 2009 commends David for "his strong leadership skills". David continues to be involved with client work and is a corporate finance specialist recommended as a 'Leader in his Field' by independent guides to the legal sector, Chambers and Legal 500. David speaks regularly on management issues and is a member of the Managing Partners' Forum Executive committee. David qualified as a solicitor in 1989
Regional Director: Simon Chadwick is joint head and co-founder of Chadwick Nott, Simon has been involved in legal recruitment since 1990. He specialises in high profile partner and team moves, mergers and acquisitions, recruitment brand building, UK / worldwide recruitment & retention strategy, and targeted business growth. He has also worked on a number of discreet projects to build up or re-engineer teams or departments in law firms.
Simon can be contacted on 07768 094648
John Banister joined Wiggin in 2003 as Chief Operating Officer responsible for driving the Firm's strategic impetus towards becoming the media law firm of choice. John is MBA trained and has charted a career through some of the heavy weights of investment banking, accounting and the legal professions including Merrill Lynch, KPMG and Linklaters. As a non-lawyer, management specialist John enjoys the opportunity to view the Firm from the outside in.
Anne Compton has been Managing Partner of Cotswolds and south-west law firm Rickerbys since October 2005 and prior to that was a partner in the firm’s Corporate and Commercial Team. With particular expertise in advising GP’s, vets and other professional practices on partnership matters, Anne is a member of the Association of Partnership Practitioners and a long-standing member of the panel of judges for the Gloucestershire Business Awards.
Paul Jelley, Managing Partner, BDO
Hamish Munro is Chief Executive of one of the UK’s largest chambers of barristers, Bristol-based Guildhall Chambers. He has spent 20 years in professional services marketing and business development with accountants BDO Stoy Hayward and lawyers Eversheds, Davies Arnold Cooper and Simmons & Simmons. He has been recognised as one of the top ten marketing directors to law firms (In Brief ). Known as a business development heavyweight, he has pioneered new approaches to knowledge-centred marketing, key account management, successful pitching and new service development.
Paul Williams is director of office agency in the Bristol office. He has more than 15 years experience in the Bristol office agency market and has a successful track record acting for both landlords and tenants in Bristol and the South West. Paul joined Savills in May 2008 in order to set up an Office Agency department for the Bristol office. Previously, he spent some 15 years with niche agency practice, Lipfriend Dawson, prior to their takeover by Colliers CRE in July 2005, where he was a Director.