Lisa Ridge

Lisa is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and has over 25 years’ experience in strategic finance, leadership and programme management roles across a variety of sectors including technology, logistics, and FMCG.

At the start of Lisa’s career, she was supported by her then employer Northern Foods (now Arla) to qualify as an Accountant through home study whilst working full time. After qualifying, Lisa worked with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) to lead a programme at Northern Foods, helping others across the accountancy division to gain their qualifications.

Lisa has held roles at Director level and in her career has played a significant role in numerous large scale finance projects including managing multimillion-pound company buy outs, acquisitions and tender management.