[New] Julia’s expertise helps to seal major investment deal

The expertise of a Warwickshire accountant and financial coach helped a company specialising in stroke rehabilitation secure a multi-million-pound international investment deal.

Julia Leask, of Warwick-based Leask Accountancy Solutions, worked with the chief executive officer and chief technology officer at Neurofenix to explore the American market and gain financial support for an innovative product.

Together, they successfully managed to secure £5.5 million in investment. It is the latest highlight that has followed a rebranding mission Julia undertook for her own business during the global pandemic.

"I am focusing on innovators," she said. "My clients are innovative in their way and their sectors.

"Neurofenix created a piece of equipment for stroke survivors when they’re being rehabilitated to improve their quality of life by regaining movement back into in their hands and their arms.

"They’ve had an investment previously, but since January 2022, we have been trying to get investment to expand into the US because it is a larger market that needs this rehabilitation solution.

"I helped the CEO and the CTO gather the information for the potential investors and it resulted in securing £5.5m."

Julia's early career focused on working with decision makers within major companies such as Severn Trent, EMI and National Grid before stopping work in her thirties to start a family. Her return to the working world saw her bring a smarter way of thinking to SMEs in the local area.

"One of the core values for my business is making a difference," Julia added. "That’s what makes me get up in the morning, to make a difference for an entrepreneurial business. If they have blue sky thinking, I can look at the numbers and forecast on what they want to do.

"I’m bringing a holistic view of the business to a company where they aren’t at the size to have a team of people doing it for them. I can identify what it is that they need and then work with them, and other contacts, to provide those services to them.”

Julia can now list 'international speaker' on her impressive CV after recently addressing likeminded people at a workshop in Spain. During the business retreat, she worked with her own business coach and managed to 'unplug' herself from the UK and create a plan for 2023 that will benefit her business and therefore, her clients too.

"I asked myself who am I?" Julia explained. "And what do I want to be? And what do I want to do in 2023? That’s the exercise that I can do with businesses.

I can get them to focus on what their ' good' will look like for next year. Because the economy is the way it is, you just cannot carry on doing what you are currently doing.

“You have got to think, what am I aiming at? Then you set your goals, justify your actions and just get on with it."

For more information please visit www.leaskas.co.uk