Adman Management Partners is a boutique business advisory and business mentoring practice that provides founders, C.E.O.s and owners with a creative and confidential environment to discuss business and management issues, with highly experienced business professionals. Importantly, we provide a safe place with someone who has no agenda other than your success and goals. Our founder, Mike Trup has over 40 years of business experience, including senior sales and marketing positions in Fortune 100 companies. he has also built his own company from start-up to multi-million Pound business and successfully exited to a trade buyer.
Mike can help entrepreneurs and business leaders by providing a safe, creative place to discuss strategy, organisational change and other challenges. It is often hard for people at or near the top to discuss and evaluate their ideas and issues with someone truly independent and experienced who can bring fresh eyes and ears to a situation. His role is to listen, to tell you what you need to hear, to challenge your ideas..and to help you build from there.
Mike has worked directly in financial services and technology (both consumer and B2B).He has also met over 1,000 management teams during his career in business, stockbroking and as an Angel Investor in various industries. Mike doesn't pretend to know all the answers but typically know the right questions to ask. He is not afraid to challenge assumptions and often has relevant experience of similar issues from a long career in senior management and entrepreneurship.
Business challenges he has direct experience with include:
Building a scalable start-up
Managing strategic financial issues
Cost reduction
Pivoting from failing strategies
Organisational change
Building a management team
All areas of sales and marketing
Exit preparation and negotiations
Fundraising
Outsourcing
Leadership skills
Alongside his advisory work, Mike is also an Angel investor and a member of the UK Business Angels Association (UKBAA) and Angels@essex, with a particular interest in healthcare, MedTech and mental health. Mike is passionate about well-being and mental health and holds an M.Sc. (Psych.) Mike also trained as a mindful meditation teacher. These backgrounds help him also advise on some of the personal issues that can arise in pursuit of business success.