Our passion is for seeing business owners achieve
what they set out to achieve

Why use Lenthall Management?

We focus on the ‘How’

Whereas there are many business advisors who all too easily tell business owners what they should and should not be doing, from the sidelines, we focus on the ‘how’; drawing on our extensive experience, gained through many years of having owned and managed medium and small businesses.
 

We have the inside track

We have an empathy and deep understanding of the challenges and pitfalls that confront business owners that can only be achieved through having faced and successfully overcome these, first hand.

What we are

• We business owner orientated
• We only work with business owners
• We are experienced business owners
• We are well qualified and supported by a hub of specialists
• We have a single focus: Helping business owners achieve their objectives through their business

Who we work with

We work with business owners of businesses, across all sectors. Typically their businesses have been established for a few years; they may have one or several owners and employ a number of staff, whether two or fifty or more. We tend to service clients within a 50 mile radius of London, concentrating in the northern home counties, being based near St Albans in Hertfordshire.

Mark Lenthall

Mark’s career started in commercial property, as a Chartered Surveyor, specialising in the development, marketing and management of strategic property assets, in both the private and public sectors. Having subsequently graduated with a MBA from Aston Business School he spent two years consulting to private sector companies and public authorities, restructuring assets and introducing best practice systems for service delivery in the latter. Mark has spent the last 17 years totally immersed in the acquisition, starting up, developing, and managing of small and medium sized businesses, predominantly in the fast moving consumer goods sector.

Mark’s  experience ranges across distribution, product development and marketing, facilities management, intellectual property, wholesale, procurement, and retail, both in store and on line; in the course of which he has developed customer and supplier relationships with over 1,000 small and medium sized companies, in addition to nationals, local authorities, the MoD and NATO these relationships span right across the UK and internationally, in Ireland, Scandinavia, West Africa and across the Far East.

Over recent years Mark’s involvement has increasingly been on behalf of clients who are committed to getting what they want from their businesses; the remainder of his time being committed to product development and intellectual property associated with it.

Mark understands, first hand, the many challenges and opportunities, the highs and the lows, the thrills and frustrations that constantly confront the owners of small and medium sized businesses – having faced and mastered many of them, as a business owner.