Optimum Finance appoints new relationship manager

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Nicky Godding

Ross Stephenson Optimum Finance

Invoice Finance specialist, Optimum Finance, has appointed Ross Stephenson as a Senior Relationship Manager to further drive new business growth and provide support to an experienced and growing relationship management team.

Ross joins the Bristol-based business with almost 20 years’ experience in financial services, primarily in Invoice Finance and including four years in corporate banking with the Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays. A former serviceman, Ross also completed a six-month NATO peacekeeping tour of Kosovo.

Ross is promoted to the new role having recently managed a 60-strong client portfolio as a relationship manager for the Southwest of England.

“Optimum has had great success in the past year and added more firepower to an already impressive arsenal of talent,” he said. “The mission here is to provide businesses with the tools and expertise necessary to grow, and I’m looking forward to getting even more involved.”

Ant Persse, CEO of Optimum Finance, added: “I am thrilled to welcome Ross to the Optimum family. His focus on exemplary client service and passion to see his clients thrive shines through. We want our team to be considered an extension to the businesses we serve. This requires a personal connection and strong business understanding, both of which Ross will provide."

Nicky Godding

Nicky Godding is editor of The Business Magazine. Before her journalism career, she worked mainly in public relations moving into writing when she was invited to launch Retail Watch, a publication covering retail and real estate across Europe. After some years of constant travelling, she tucked away her passport and concentrated on business writing, co-founding a successful regional business magazine. She has interviewed some of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs who have built multi-million-pound businesses and reported on many science and technology firsts. She reports on the region’s thriving business economy from start-ups, family businesses and multi-million-pound corporations, to the professionals that support their growth and the institutions that educate the next generation of business leaders.