Gareth was one of the top six finalists to be nominated for this award and won it after a close battle with five other well-accomplished industry leaders. The award was judged by financial industry experts Adam Akbar, Managing Director for Bronzegate; Alan Burns, CFO for Photobox; James McComasky, CFO for Restructuring at Blue Merger and David Potts, Director for Operations at AIA.

The judges were particularly impressed with Gareth’s work in leading both his finance function and the wider business through change and innovation, whilst holding down his “day job” of driving business performance and profitability.

Following the Summit, Gareth said “Thank you to FD’s Excellence Awards, judges, sponsors and the event organisers for putting together an innovative two days of networking and learning, and for recognising the work of Finance Directors and CFOs from the UK’s leading SMEs. I am very honoured to receive this award. I would also like to recognise that you are only ever as good as the team of people around you, so thank you to everyone in the finance team at Small World for their continued hard work.”