About Mark Woolhouse

Former banker turned entrepreneur. I successfully restructured, purchased, managed and sold a private engineering group, Steel Line Ltd, through an LBO and was also an equity partner in Corporate Training Group which my partners and I successfully sold to the AIM listed ILX group in 2006. I established Capital City Training Limited in early 2010 with my business partner Greg. We acquired MS Consultants a few years ago (so I'm still doing a bit of M&A). I have had non-exec roles for a small and growing VA/recruitment business and a fast-growing beverage logistics company. I am also an active investor. Capital City Training is a full service technical and management development training company focused on the banking, wealth management and broader financial services and accounting industries. Having said all that, in the last couple of years we've been branching out into training for non-financial companies - manufacturing, retail, tech, defense.. so old and new economy. We also provide consultancy around modelling and are currently working for a leading PPP/PFI advisory firm. We have delivered training in every continent of the world in 2024... except Antarctica. Perhaps in 2025?! Watch this space. Capital’s dedicated faculty combine extensive line experience as corporate financiers, bankers, traders, portfolio managers and equity analysts together with over 60 years of experience in learning and development as both procurers and providers of tailored in-house training, eLearning and blended learning. Our faculty also includes experienced Management development training specialists allowing us to provide HR consultancy services, management development training and also innovative integrated management development & technical training events. Capital City’s faculty embody over 100 years of line experience across the fields of accounting, corporate finance, derivatives, credit, lending, investment, equity research transaction banking and origination.

Creditors must guard against a wave of dirty tricks in the pandemic

Investors and lenders risk being caught out by a wave of corporate dirty tricks as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to cause financial mayhem. You will see them in all sizes of companies – from Sheffield Wednesday suffering a 12-point penalty for reporting the sale of its ground in the wrong year, to Kraft Heinz restating

By |2023-12-21T12:41:46+00:00October 1st, 2020|Commercial Banking|Comments Off on Creditors must guard against a wave of dirty tricks in the pandemic

How to avoid the Covid bear-trap of bad debt

Act-1 of the COVID crisis drew to a close with the end of lockdown and the start of "back to the (new) normal", as we rushed to the beach and booked package holidays. Act-2 is now beginning and the prospect of new restrictions and the uncertain timing of the end of furlough present us with

By |2023-12-21T12:41:46+00:00September 10th, 2020|Risk Management & Derivatives|Comments Off on How to avoid the Covid bear-trap of bad debt

Snow Camp Charity

We have been involved with raising money for Snow-Camp for 5 years now and it’s a chance to give back to the community, raise funds and have fun. This year was no exception as one of our Directors, Mark Woolhouse headed to beautiful Courmayeur, Italy for his biggest alpine challenge to date! Snow-Camp are a

By |2023-12-21T12:41:47+00:00February 18th, 2020|News|Comments Off on Snow Camp Charity

Confessions of a private investor

I have been managing my own money for over 15 years: in 2000, I gave up the safety of a bank salary and non-contributory pension to lead a management buyout.  I found myself with a couple of legacy final salary entitlements and a small pension pot in “Zombie” fund manager, Phoenix Group.  My pension manager

By |2023-12-21T12:41:47+00:00October 30th, 2019|Investing|Comments Off on Confessions of a private investor

My portfolio: you win some you lose some

Last time I blogged I talked about my top down approach to asset allocation and how I used the Salty Dog data www.saltydoginvestor.com.  What should your investment horizon be? The Salty approach seems to promote churning. Buy when performing, sell when not, then reinvest. I would like to emphasise that I don’t “actively trade”, I

By |2023-12-21T12:41:47+00:00October 30th, 2019|Investing|Comments Off on My portfolio: you win some you lose some
Go to Top