Our People
Terry Corby
Founder & CEO
Richard Forshaw-Smith
Head of Marketing
Non-Executive Directors
Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones MBE
Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, also known as The Black Farmer, has been on a relentless mission to change the world in a career spanning more than 40 years.
Wilfred’s journey from impoverished immigrant to multimillionaire farming legend has been unconventional – after school, and a spell in the army, Wilfred’s entrepreneurial spirit helped him create a successful career at the BBC, where for 15 years he was producer/director on food programmes, giving the likes of Gordon Ramsay and James Martin their TV breaks. At 40, Wilfred achieved his dream and bought a 30-acre idyll on the Devon/Cornwall border and, having spotted a gap in the market to create exceptional sausages, created the iconic Black Farmer brand. His products are now sold in all major stores and are nationally known and loved.
Philip King
In a career spanning more than 40 years, Philip King relentlessly championed the cause of small businesses as Interim Small Business Commissioner and Chief Executive of the Chartered Institute of Management (CICM).
He has served as a board member for the Start-Up Loans Company, and was a Red Tape Champion for Insolvency. He is the author of the ‘Managing Cashflow Guides’ and architect of the Prompt Payment Code for the Department of Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). He has worked closely with successive governments to champion best-practice credit management, tackling late payment, and supporting small business.
Alan Marsh
Alan is the marketing director at Previse, a fin-tech company which analyses the data of a large company to predict the very few invoices that are unlikely to get paid, so that the rest can be paid instantly.
Martin Traynor OBE
Martin completed five years as the Small Business Crown Representative at the Cabinet Office, where he was tasked to work with government departments and arm’s length bodies to make public procurement policies, practices, and procedures simpler for SMEs to navigate. This culminated in the Procurement Act 2023.