John Courtney is founder and chief executive of BoardroomAdvisors.co, which provides part-time executive directors (commercial/operations/managing directors), non-executive directors, and paid mentors to SMEs without either a recruitment fee or a long-term contract. John is a serial entrepreneur, having founded seven different businesses over a 40-year period, including a digital marketing agency, corporate finance, and management consultancy. He has trained and worked as a strategy consultant, raised funding through angels, VCs, and crowd funding, and exited businesses via MBO, MBI, and trade sale.