Merseyside Special Investment Fund
Business Owners Support Service

Trevor Edwards
Primary Expertise - Business Planning

Trevor was educated at the local Grammar School and graduated in 1970 with a degree in Chemistry from UMIST. His initial employment was as a management trainee at a national contractors plant hire company working in all areas of their business. This initial experience was followed by a 10 year career in manufacturing, starting in production planning and line supervisor positions. He rapidly progressed through departmental management in the pharmaceutical industry and spent the last six years as operations director of a venture capital funded company producing cloned plants for the horticulture industry.

In order to move into general management he took a year out and studied full time for an MBA at Cranfield. This was followed by spells as commercial director with two companies, the first involved a turn-around of a failing subsidiary of a top 100 plc, the second the integration of the newly acquired subsidiary and delivering the inherent value in the business.

In 1990 Trevor joined Rentokil as General Manager of their troubled Liverpool based products business. During his tenure the business was turned around, turnover doubled to £20m with profits increased from £400k to £3.5m. In 1999 Trevor set up his own business in document security, which was sold at the end of 2000, and now he assists businesses to plan, fund and implement changes to transform their business and profitability.