{"id":1149,"date":"2024-05-08T20:01:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T20:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xi8capital.org\/?page_id=1149"},"modified":"2026-04-19T11:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T11:01:10","slug":"directors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/xi8capital.com\/index.php\/directors\/","title":{"rendered":"Directors"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Mr Richard Walker qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Baker Tilly in 1990, subsequently specialising in their restructures and recoveries department. Richard left Baker Tilly to join a panel of advisors for an active venture capitalist, taking several board appointments including undertaking CFO roles for both AIM and New York Stock Exchange (AMEX) companies.\u00a0<\/p>

Since then, Mr Walker has specialised in advising and taking board roles, for numerous private companies and, for many years, several listed companies on the ISDX\/NEX\/AQSE Exchanges in both executive and non executive capacities.\u00a0<\/p>

He continues to hold a number of non executive roles to assist companies seeking a potential public listing.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Ken enjoyed a successful career at three different mainstream Banks, progressing to a very senior level, dealing with a range of corporate clients. Ken has chaired credit committees on lending for over two decades, deciding on appropriate lending terms and ensuring that credit risk is minimalised.<\/p>

He is also an experienced Non-Executive Director and has consultancy skills include debt restructuring, acting as a \u2018bridge\u2019 between Bank\/equity providers and borrower and has the ability to bring a wide range of Funders\/Advisors to a transaction.<\/p>

His business focus is being Chairman of the Audit Committee on a AQSE Listed Company in the hospitality sector, Chairman of the Credit Committee of a peer to peer lender and Group Chairman of a private equity backed healthcare business (adults and children\u2019s services ) operating from 147 locations, 1,500 individuals and c.3,000 employees. He is also Chairman of a small but growing private equity backed elderly care business.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Directors Richard Walker Mr Richard Walker qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Baker Tilly in 1990, subsequently specialising in their restructures and recoveries department. Richard left Baker Tilly to join a panel of advisors for an active venture capitalist, taking several board appointments including undertaking CFO roles for both AIM and New York Stock Exchange […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1149","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xi8capital.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xi8capital.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xi8capital.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xi8capital.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xi8capital.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/xi8capital.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1596,"href":"https:\/\/xi8capital.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1149\/revisions\/1596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xi8capital.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}