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We have a great team of advisers with over 250 years of experience in providing financial advice, backed up by a strong team of technical support staff and administrators whose focus is entirely on service and keeping you up to date.

 

Chris Purves (Managing Director)

Chris is founder, co-owner and Director of Principal & Prosper with more than 30 years of financial services experience. Prior to setting up Principal & Prosper, Chris worked as an Independent… Read more

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"All of our advisors focus on providing our clients with an individual service."

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Stewart Siegel (Director)

Stewart has more than 30 years of experience in financial services. He is both a Chartered Financial Planner with the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) and a Fellow of the Personal Finance Society (PFS)… Read more

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"All of our support staff have been selected by us, as they have the right attitude & ethics."

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Brian Knox (Director)

Brian is a Director of Principal & Prosper and in addition to his advisory role is the Firm’s Compliance Officer. With more than 22 years in financial services, Brian is a Chartered Financial Planner with the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII)… Read more

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Jenni Bainbridge (Director)

Jenni has over 20 years of experience in financial services and prior to joining Principal & Prosper worked as a partner with RSM Tenon Financial Management. Jenni is a Chartered Financial… Read more

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Ryan Brown (Director)

Ryan has over 20 years of experience in financial services. Prior to joining Principal & Prosper, Ryan was a Private Client Manager with Standard Life for 5 years after holding positions as a Senior… Read more

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Nigel Cannon (Chartered Financial Planner)

Prior to joining Principal & Prosper, Nigel worked for almost 20 years with Standard Life as a Private Client Manager, having joined straight from university. Nigel is a Chartered Financial Planner with… Read more

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Gail Price (Chartered Financial Planner)

Prior to joining Principal & Prosper, Gail worked for over 9 years with RSM Tenon, where she spent 7 years as Private Client Manager… Read more

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Stephen Burt (Senior Financial Planner)

Stephen has been providing Financial Advice for over 27 years. Prior to joining Principal & Prosper, Stephen was a Senior Financial Adviser with RSM Tenon for 4 years, having joined from… Read more

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Jayne Prins (Chartered Financial Planner)

Jayne is a Chartered Financial Planner with Principal & Prosper and over 18 years of experience in Financial Services. Prior to joining Principal & Prosper Jayne worked as a Private Client Manager for… Read more

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Ashleigh Strachan (FInancial Planner)

Ashleigh is a Financial Planner with Principal & Prosper and has over 15 years of experience in Financial Services. Prior to joining P&P, Ashleigh worked as a Financial Planner… Read more

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Jennifer Kirk (Financial Planner)

Jennifer with more than 14 years in financial services has the Diploma in Financial Planning (DipPFS) and is currently working towards Chartered Financial Planner status. Prior to joining Principal & Prosper… Read more

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Kelly Smith (Chartered Financial Planner)

Kelly has 20 years experience working in Financial Services and joined Principal and Prosper from Standard Life in 2017. Kelly is a Chartered Financial Planner with the Chartered Institute of Insurers. Read more

Laurie Hogan (Chartered Financial Planner)

Laurie has been working in Financial Services since graduating in 2012 and worked across a number of blue chip companies such as Morgan Stanley… Read more

Gavin McCarthy (Financial Planner)

Gavin has over 12 years of experience in financial services. Prior to joining Principal & Prosper in May 2019, Gavin worked for Aegon where… Read more

Michele Gladstone (Mortgage Adviser)

Michele has 13 years of experience as an Independent Mortgage Adviser, having been with Principal & Prosper for 10 of those years. She has previous banking experience with Lloyds TSB… Read more

Alan Pickles (Compliance Director)

Alan has 30 years experience in financial services. Prior to joining Principal & Prosper… Read more

Mark Owen (Investment Manager)

Mark is responsible for asset allocation, investment selection and management of multi-asset risk-managed portfolios. Prior to Principal & Prosper, Mark worked… Read more

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Jonathan Horsfield (Investment Manager)

Jonathan joined Principal & Prosper to further supplement the investment team and is responsible for managing multi-asset risk-managed portfolios… Read more

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Linzi Reed (Investment Operations Analyst)

Linzi has over 15 years of experience in the Financial Services Industry. Prior to… Read more

Gillian McDougall (PA to Chris Purves & Stewart Siegel)

Gillian has been in Financial Services for 17 years and with Principal & Prosper since it was founded. Gillian is the Office Manager and until recently was also responsible for the administration staff… Read more

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Doug Wilson (Senior Technical Support Consultant)

Doug has over 19 years of experience in financial services and is Diploma qualified and currently working towards his Chartered Status. Prior to joining Principal & Prosper, he worked with… Read more

Sara Jane Kidd (Technical Support Consultant)

Sara has over 15 years of experience in the Financial Services Industry and prior to joining Principal & Prosper in 2014 she spent 8 years in technical support roles. Sara has her Certificate in… Read more

Michael Fullerton (Technical Support Consultant)

Michael worked in the Financial Services Industry for 27 years prior to joining Principal & Prosper in July 2015. He previously worked for a Life Office as well as two Edinburgh… Read more

Emma Paterson (Technical Support Consultant)

Emma joined Principal & Prosper in January 2019 and comes with over 7 years of experience working in financial services… Read more

Craig Strachan (Technical Support Consultant)

Craig joined Principal & Prosper in 2013. He has over 9 years of financial services experience, having previously worked for Aegon, Bright Grey and Standard Life where he worked in a variety of roles… Read more

Lawrence Mann (Technical Support Consultant)

Lawrence recently joined Principal & Prosper at the start of 2014 and works in Adviser Support. Previous to this he spent 4 years at the University of Edinburgh where he graduated… Read more

Steph Price (Admin Manager)

Steph has over 17 years’ experience in the financial services industry. She joined Principal & Prosper in August 2014. Prior to joining us Steph was a team manager at Standard Life. The last six years… Read more

Andy Laurence (Technical Support Consultant)

Andy joined Principal & Prosper in 2010. He worked for Scottish Widows in their pension department for 3 years before furthering his education at The University of Alabama at Birmingham (USA), where… Read more

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Stacey McDonald (Finance Administrator)

Stacey has over 19 years accounting experience gained in both industry and practice environments. Before joining Principal & Prosper in 2013, Stacey worked for two other Edinburgh based… Read more

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Lisa Valentine (Finance Assistant)

Worked in finance for over 9 years. Prior to coming to P&P I worked for CALA Homes for 6 years managing South of England.… Read more

Lynne Flynn (Adviser Support)

Lynne joined Principal & Prosper in 2013, having previously worked for more than 8 years in various adviser firms and also spent 5 years with Cooperative Insurance Services… Read more

Gillian O'Hare (Adviser Support)

Gillian worked in the Financial Services Industry for 10 years prior to joining Principal & Prosper in 2007. She previously worked for a number of Edinburgh based IFA firms, gaining experience in… Read more

Stuart McConnachie (Adviser Support)

Stuart joined Principal & Prosper in 2008 after 3 years with an Edinburgh stockbroker providing administrative support to discretionary portfolio management… Read more

Lianne Morrison (Adviser Support)

Prior to joining Principal & Prosper, Lianne worked for the Wrap Platform administration team at Standard Life where she worked as a Platform Administrator. Lianne brings a strong understanding… Read more

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Kerry Queen (Adviser Support)

Kerry has 14 years of experience in the Financial Services industry. Having previously worked with Principal & Prosper from 2004 until 2008 she has recently returned for a second time… Read more

Lynda Mclaren (Adviser Support)

Lynda recently joined Principal & Prosper at the start of 2016. Lynda has returned to work having had a career break to raise family and living abroad for 7 years. Prior to… Read more

Amanda Gryczka (Adviser Support)

Amanda has recently joined Principal & Prosper and will be based in our Kelso office. She has 15 years’ experience in the financial services industry having spent the last 8 years… Read more

Erin Greig (Adviser Support)

Erin joined us in 2016 as an administrator.  This is Erin’s first full time role after studying at the University of Edinburgh.  She previously worked part time in the retail sector before joining our team. Read more

Ryan McGregor (Adviser Support)

Ryan joined Principal & Prosper at the beginning of 2017 as part of the valuations team… Read more

Rebeccah Kennedy (Adviser Support)

Rebeccah joined us at the end of 2017 as an administrator. Prior to this she spent 4 years studying at Edinburgh Napier University… Read more

Claire Hamilton (Adviser Support)

Claire joined Principal & Prosper at the beginning of 2019 as part of the valuations team… Read more

Scott Siegel (Adviser Support)

Scott joined Principal & Prosper in 2018 and works in Adviser Support. Prior to this,… Read more

Euan Greig (Adviser Support)

Euan joined the Principal & Prosper Adviser Support Team in the summer of 2019. Prior to this… Read more

Susan Keatinge (Office Receptionist)

Susan is the Office Receptionist at Principal and Prosper and is the first point of contact for all clients. Prior to joining Principal & Prosper, Susan has experience of working in both the financial sector (for Scottish Provident and Abbey National)… Read more