Investment Director

Marian Catterall

Marian has a wealth of experience lending to businesses having spent 24 years with Nat West Bank where she worked as a Senior Manager, managing and analysing personal and business lending on transactions of up to £100k and managing a bad debt portfolio. Her role included managing two city centre branches where she was responsible for 40 staff across both sites.

She joined AFM in 2002 as an investment manager and was promoted to investment director soon afterwards.

Marian has been instrumental in setting up the Merseyside Turnaround and Development Programme which aims to assist businesses in rescue situations and source advice and finance to help get them back on track. She is also responsible for managing Business Owners Support Services (the BOSS programme) in particular introducing Mentors to MSIF clients and managing the subsidy process.

Marian sits on the North West Business Loan Fund’s steering group and regularly presents on behalf of the MSIF Small Firms Fund at events and seminars throughout Merseyside and the wider North West.

Little known fact: Marian spent two weeks travelling around Europe with 12 firemen to raise funds for the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation.