Biography
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Jo Haigh
Partner & Head of Corporate Finance
fds Group & MGR (Member of the Vistage Speaker Bureau)
Jo Haigh is a Partner and Head of Corporate Finance for MGR a company based in London and Sheffield and a partner in the fds Group, a specialist training and development business.
An experienced dealmaker, Jo specialises in putting together the right deal at the right time and in the right format for growing businesses throughout the country. She has bought and sold over 300 companies in the last 20 years specialising in owner managed companies.
She is a regular presenter for the Institute of Directors on corporate governance and mergers and acquisitions.
Jo is also a Partner of fds - a highly successful training and consultancy organisation and specialist Corporate Finance Boutique that she founded at the start of the 90s. Over the period she held numerous Non-Executive Roles in companies across the region and helped many businesses through successful transactions. She has sold 3 of her own companies.
She is a Visiting Fellow at Leeds University where she delivers the Corporate Governance development programme for all academic staff wishing to hive off new companies, in addition to training and developing non-executive directors appointed to University Companies whose role is to represent University interests.
She is a mentor for Enterprise Challenge undergraduates at Sheffield Hallam University and will provide her experience and knowledge as part of the training process.
She is a Non-Executive Director of 3 companies.
