The right expertise.
A personal introduction.

Native of Cork and living in the UK. My focus is simple: to help business owners navigate challenges, build stronger teams and create more profitable, sustainable businesses.

I work with business owners, CEOs and leadership teams across Ireland and the UK to help businesses overcome challenges, improve profitability and cash flow, and achieve their next stage of growth.

As a Senior Business Partner, Fractional COO, Director and Interim Board Member, I specialise in working with underperforming, distressed and growing SMEs. My approach is practical, hands-on and people-focused. I take the time to understand how a business really operates, listening to its leadership team and employees to identify the underlying issues that may be holding it back.

Once the key challenges are understood, I work closely with the CEO or business owner to develop a clear, achievable programme for positive change. I then support the delivery of that programme, working alongside internal teams and coordinating external specialists where needed to ensure that plans translate into meaningful, measurable results.

Helping Business Owners Move Forward

Every business faces its own challenges. Sometimes the focus is on restoring profitability, improving cash flow or addressing operational inefficiencies. In other cases, the business owner has reached a growth ceiling and needs the right support, expertise and leadership structure to take the company to the next level.

I have extensive experience across digital businesses, financial services, professional services, construction and manufacturing, primarily within the SME sector.

I also understand the unique challenges of family-owned businesses, particularly when family relationships and business responsibilities become intertwined. When communication breaks down and working relationships become unproductive, the impact can be felt throughout the organisation. I help business owners address these challenges, rebuild effective working relationships and create a healthier, more productive environment.

A key part of my role is helping business owners build the right teams around them. This often involves identifying gaps in expertise, introducing trusted external specialists and managing those relationships on the owner's behalf, allowing them to focus on leading and growing their business.

A Trusted Partner to Business Owners

I believe that business success comes from having the right people, leadership and support in place. My role is not simply to offer advice from the sidelines, but to become a trusted right hand, sounding board, confidant and mentor to the business owner.

I work alongside owners and their teams to build confidence, strengthen leadership, improve decision-making and create the foundations for sustainable growth.

In my experience, people follow great leaders; they simply work for a boss. Building a successful business means developing a team that shares a vision, takes ownership and works together towards common goals.

Supporting the Business Community Through BITA

Alongside my commercial work, I am proud to serve as an Ambassador for the British Irish Trade Alliance (BITA), a not-for-profit networking organisation that connects businesses and supports commercial relationships between the UK and Ireland.

Introducing Lawrence O’Hara who is a Corporate Recovery and Personal Insolvency Specialist with extensive experience advising businesses, creditors, individuals and professional stakeholders facing financial challenges and insolvency-related matters.

As Director of AMS Group in Northern Ireland, Lawrence leads the firm's Business Recovery offering, providing specialist advice and practical guidance across a broad range of corporate and personal insolvency matters. His approach focuses on understanding each client's circumstances, assessing the options available and identifying appropriate solutions to address financial difficulties.

With more than 20 years of experience in insolvency and business restructuring, Lawrence has developed extensive expertise in helping clients navigate complex financial situations. His career spans senior leadership at Begbies Traynor Group, alongside earlier experience with KPMG and BDO, giving him a strong foundation across the full spectrum of insolvency and restructuring assignments.

Advisory Services

Corporate Insolvency

Lawrence advises on a comprehensive range of corporate insolvency procedures, supporting companies, creditors and other stakeholders through challenging financial circumstances. His experience includes:

• Administrations
• Creditors’ voluntary, members’ voluntary and compulsory liquidations
• Administrative receiverships and other receivership appointments
• Company voluntary arrangements (CVAs)

Personal Insolvency

Lawrence also advises on personal insolvency matters, including bankruptcy, receiverships and individual voluntary arrangements (IVAs). He provides guidance to help clients understand their circumstances, explore the available options and navigate the relevant processes.

Financial & Strategic Management

Alongside formal insolvency appointments, Lawrence provides practical support through financial reviews and solvency assessments. This helps clients develop a clearer understanding of their financial position and consider the options available to them.

Most B2B SMEs reach a point where growth becomes harder than it should be. Sales depend too heavily on the owner, processes are inconsistent, pipelines are difficult to forecast, and the team struggles to deliver predictable results.

The business has reached a ceiling — not necessarily because there is a lack of opportunity, but because the sales function lacks the structure, leadership and processes needed to grow.

At Spinnaker Global Advisors Ltd, I help business owners and managing directors break through that ceiling by building stronger sales teams, implementing repeatable sales processes and introducing the leadership needed to drive sustainable revenue growth.

Through a hands-on, structured approach, I help you create a sales function that performs without requiring your involvement in every opportunity — without the immediate cost of hiring a full-time Sales Director.

Who I Work With

I work with owners and managing directors of B2B SMEs, typically businesses with revenues below £50 million and sales teams of between two and 15 people.

My clients want to:

• Grow revenue without becoming the bottleneck in every sales decision.
• Build a sales team that follows a consistent, effective process.
• Improve conversion rates and increase accountability.
• Gain visibility of their pipeline and confidence in their sales forecasts.
• Free up time to focus on strategy, operations and the wider business.
• Create a scalable sales function that supports long-term growth.

Victor Bastos is a software and data engineer at DUNA AI, working with businesses to design and develop systems around their day-to-day needs.

His work spans websites, applications, CRM systems, customer portals and integrations. He combines software development, data engineering and automation to help teams connect their tools and make better use of their information.

Data engineering, Big Data & Databricks

Victor focuses on bringing business data together, making it reliable and preparing it for analytics and AI. Areas of support include:

• Data engineering and ETL/ELT pipelines that connect, transform and organise data from business systems.
• Big Data workflows for processing growing volumes of information and making them useful for analysis.
• Databricks-based data preparation, transformation and analytics workflows.
• Data quality checks and structured datasets that support consistent reporting.
• Dashboards and analytics that help teams track performance and make informed decisions.
• Preparing business data for automation and AI applications.

Practical AI solutions

Through DUNA AI, Victor develops AI solutions that fit into existing business processes, including:

• AI assistants that help teams find answers in their business documents and knowledge.
• Document processing to extract, classify and organise information.
• AI-assisted workflows and agents integrated with business systems.
• Automation that reduces repetitive administration and connects everyday tools.

The starting point is the business need: understanding the process, choosing where software, data or AI can help, and building a solution that the team can use. For support through CSC Partners, Tina Coy will discuss your requirements and make the introduction.