Ash Mehta - Chief Executive

Ash has extensive experience in commercial finance roles for multinational and growth companies.

Ash qualified as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG London, and has worked in finance and commercial roles for Eli Lilly, and Parexel International, a NASDAQ-quoted services company. He has also been Finance Director and Stategy Director of growth companies both Full-listed and AIM-listed, including Ultrasis plc and Raft International plc.

He currently sits on the Executive Committee of the Quoted Companies Alliance, the representative body for small quoted companies, and on the board of Northbridge Industrial Services plc, an AIM-listed industrial hire company. Ash is also a regular columnist on Aimzine, an online publication for the AIM community.

For three years prior to founding Orchard he worked as an independent financial consultant during which time he built up the Orchard support concept. Outside of work, Ash enjoys tennis and technology.