NGEN Team

Overview

The team at NGEN Financial Planning has extensive experience in providing financial planning and investment services to individual and corporate clients. It has six offices in the United Kingdom.

Management Team

Neil Chakraborty

Managing Director

BIOGRAPHY

Neil is a shareholder and director of NGEN responsible for investment management and corporate strategy. Before NGEN he was an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley in London from October 2006 to April 2013.

Susie Bolton

Compliance Director

BIOGRAPHY

Susie heads up the compliance function at NGEN, and is responsible for ensuring that regulatory obligations are met across the group.

She has over 20 years of experience in financial services compliance, previously holding the position of Strategic Compliance Director at SimplyBiz where she coordinated tailored compliance support for specialist firms under the Signature service.

William Mok

Investment Director

BIOGRAPHY

William sits on the Investment Committee and is responsible for the build of the NGEN model portfolios. William joined NGEN from MSCI, the leading provider of investment indices, where he conducted research and development on MSCI/BARRA’s Risk Premia or Smart Beta indices.

Advisory Team

Paul Hammond

Financial Adviser (Regional Manager)

BIOGRAPHY

Paul is a financial adviser and heads up the Wolverhampton office. Prior to joining NGEN, he set up Complete Advice Services, a financial advisory firm in Wolverhampton and merged with NGEN in 2018. Prior to starting Complete Advice Services, Paul was a branch manager at Britannic Assurance for 5 years having worked for the company in various managerial roles for the previous 8 years.

Paul has over 30 years’ experience in financial services and has been providing independent financial advice throughout the West Midlands area. He maintains a portfolio of long-standing private and commercial clients, most of whom have been referred to by existing clients.

David Meakin

Financial Adviser (Regional Manager)

BIOGRAPHY

David is a financial adviser and heads up the Brighouse office. Prior to joining NGEN he set up David Meakin IFA, a financial advisory firm in West Yorkshire and merged with NGEN in 2020.

David has over 30 years’ experience in financial services and has been providing financial advice to clients throughout the West Yorkshire and Manchester area. He specialises in pensions, investments and protection and maintains a portfolio of long-standing private and corporate clients.

Nat Parmar

Financial Adviser (Regional Manager)

BIOGRAPHY

Nat is a financial adviser and heads up our Nottingham office. Prior to merging his practice Corporate Wealth into NGEN in 2021, Nat held a number of senior positions within the financial services industry which include Senior Group Manager of Allied Dunbar, Group Managing Director of UKIFA and The Arden Court Group.

Nat has over 47 years’ experience in financial services and his areas of expertise include corporate and personal financial planning, corporate protection and pensions as well as personal investments, retirement and protection advice.

Mark Taylor

Financial Adviser

BIOGRAPHY

Mark is a financial adviser specialising in pensions, investments, protection and mortgages in our Newcastle under Lyme office. Prior to joining NGEN, he worked as a relationship manager at Santander Bank where he managed a portfolio of high-net-worth clients.

Sean Slattery

Financial Adviser

BIOGRAPHY

Sean is a financial and mortgage adviser based out of the Wolverhampton office. He started his career at TSB Bank and after a few years moved onto a sales advisory role within the bank, specialising in mortgages.

Sean has over 30 years’ experience in financial services and he currently advises in investments as well as mortgages and protection.

Michelle Street

Financial Adviser

BIOGRAPHY

Michelle is a financial adviser in the Newcastle-under-Lyme and Oswestry offices. Prior to joining NGEN, Michelle worked as a financial adviser for AXA and a mortgage and protection adviser for Britannia Building Society.

Michelle has over 30 years experience in financial services and she specialises in providing personalised pension, investment, mortgage, and protection advice.

Paraplanning, Administration and Client Support

Tazmin Carter

Paraplanner

BIOGRAPHY

Tazmin is a financial administrator within NGEN. She started in 2016 as an apprentice. Tazmin has over 7 years’ experience in financial services.

Debashis Dasgupta

Operations Support

BIOGRAPHY

Debashis DasGupta, a Post Graduate in Business Management and a Bachelor in Commerce with 24 years of experience in Retail Banking and Wealth Management roles. He has been in senior roles with organizations like CITI, UTI and Standard Chartered. His last assignment was as a consultant to an Indian Private Sector Bank for their Private Banking business.

Lewis Salisbury

Systems Integration

BIOGRAPHY

David Goodwin

Paraplanner

BIOGRAPHY

David is a Research Analyst at NGEN and provides fund research and fund suitability reports. He also does paraplanning work for advisers. Previously he has worked with Lloyds Bank, Barclays and NatWest as an investment adviser for high-net-worth individuals. David has also worked in the areas of compliance and training.

Louise Haigh

Paraplanner

BIOGRAPHY

Louise is a financial administrator at NGEN. She provides administration support to advisors and oversees the processing of client files. Previously she worked for a manufacturing company for 16 years.

Louise has over 9 years’ experience in financial services.

Anne Holland

Administrator

BIOGRAPHY

Anne is an administrator within NGEN. She provides a full administration service to the Nottingham office and previously worked for Halifax and Aviva plc.

Chloe Rheade

Paraplanner

BIOGRAPHY

Chloe is an administrator and paraplanner at NGEN. She provides a full administration service to advisors and assists with report writing and research. Chloe recently started working in the financial services sector. Prior to joining NGEN, she worked within legal services having previously completed her law degree.

Louise Steel

Financial Administrator

BIOGRAPHY

Louise is a Financial Administrator at NGEN. She provides administration support to advisers and oversees the processing of client files. Louise started working for NGEN in November 2023, and prior to this she worked for Kidney Research.”)

NGEN Team

Overview

Management Team

Neil Chakraborty

Managing Director

Susie Bolton

Compliance Director

William Mok

Investment Director

Advisory Team

Paul Hammond

Financial Adviser (Regional Manager)

David Meakin

Financial Adviser (Regional Manager)

Nat Parmar

Financial Adviser (Regional Manager)

Mark Taylor

Financial Adviser

Sean Slattery

Financial Adviser

Michelle Street

Financial Adviser

Paraplanning, Administration and Client Support

Tazmin Carter

Paraplanner

Debashis Dasgupta

Operations Support

Lewis Salisbury

Systems Integration

David Goodwin

Paraplanner

Louise Haigh

Paraplanner

Anne Holland

Administrator

Chloe Rheade

Paraplanner

Louise Steel

Financial Administrator

NGEN Markets