Welcome to MPF South West

The MPF is the world's leading association of managing partners from across the spectrum of professional service firms. In South West we have created a local organisation that provides top-calibre educational and networking opportunities for all its members. By introducing thought-provoking and cutting-edge best practices that are transportable from one sector to another, we are dedicated to enhancing leadership and the status of the management team. more...

EVENTS

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 Manager, Paul Lemon if you wish to hear more about our events and/or membership.

KNOWLEDGE

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...

CAMPAIGNS

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.

AWARDS

We organise the European Practice Management Awards, the only competition to focus on the contribution of different disciplines to managing a professional firm. Widely recognised as the premier Awards in Europe for those with practice management roles, the competition has been running since 2002.

COMMITTEE

Chair: Paul Jelley, Managing Partner, BDO

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.

Chris Bull, is Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Osborne Clarke. With overall responsibility for Osborne Clarke's business service functions, Chris works closely with the firm's Managing Partner on a wide range of strategic and management issues. Chris's role gives him a unique insight into the use of technology across the firm in areas as diverse as HR, IT, Finance, Marketing, Sales, Infrastructure, Knowledge & Development and Quality & Risk. Chris is involved in defining the strategic direction of Osborne Clarke as one of the seven members of the Firm's Partnership Council - effectively its board. Prior to joining Osborne Clarke in 1996, Chris was a Management Consultant and Finance Manager. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant and his previous experience includes periods at PwC, Ernst & Young and NatWest Bank.

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.

Richard Rees is Director and Head of Office in Bristol, a Board Member and also has a national role as Head of Development for Savills. Richard specialises in all aspects of development property including the acquisition and sale of immediate development opportunities and strategic development land. He has significant experience in development consultancy work and valuations. Richard is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Jeremy Richards, Managing Partner, King Sturge

Stuart Whitfield is CEO of Bevan Brittan LLP. Prior to this he was CEO of Bevan Ashford from May 2003 until its demerger in 2004. He was previously a partner in the projects department and head of the firm's technology and manufacturing division. Stuart currently sits on the CBI's Public Sector Services Board and chairs its Education and Children's Services Panel

DETAILS OF OUR NEXT EVENT

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COMMITTEE

Simon Chadwick

Regional Director: Simon Chadwick,
Chadwick Nott

Paul Jelley

Chair: Paul Jelley,
BDO

Chris Bull

Chris Bull,
Osborne Clarke

John Banister

John Banister,
Wiggin LLP

Anne Compton

Anne Compton,
Rickerbys Solicitors

Jeremy Richards

Jeremy Richards,
King Sturge

Richard Rees

Richard Rees,
Savills

Stuart Whitfield

Stuart Whitfield,
Bevan Brittan

FUTURE EVENTS

Invites will be sent out approximately six weeks before each event.


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