Principal : Alan Gaynor

Alan Gaynor has a long and successful career as a Chief Executive in Management Buy-In, Corporate Recovery and Venture Capital circles. Having spent his formative career in blue chip plc's (Asda, Sainsbury, WH Smith) he has specialised since 1990 in Turnarounds and Interim Opportunities.

A Fellow of the Institute of Directors since 1987 and INSEAD Alumnus since 1985, Alan works closely with a number of Venture Capital organisations, Hedge Funds, Investment Banks and is a member of the Grant Thornton, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ashton Penney Interim Executive Turnaround Panels.

Alan Gaynor founded APG Associates in the early 90's with the objective of having a director level group created to undertake hands-on recovery and advisory work. One of his key strengths is the successful recruiting and development of management teams in particular for MBI and MBO teams with strong emphasis on research, strategy and operations.

The team operates collectively and independently on projects, allied to their individual strengths and resources and applicable to the needs of the assignment.