Lindsay Town joins IAA-Advisory team

Industry veteran Lindsay Town is to join global asset finance industry specialists IAA-Advisory as a director, bringing with him over 35 years of experience across an extensive range of product and industry sectors.

A former director of the Finance and Leasing Association, since taking early retirement from Lloyds/HBOS in 2009, Town has been working in an advisory role as well as being a non-executive director with several companies.

Previously he was a managing director of Bank of Scotland, corporate, responsible for a wide portfolio of asset finance and leasing business which consisted at its peak of approximately £18bn of funded assets and over 2,250 colleagues. Town has also worked for Barclays, Lloyds TSB and PricewaterhouseCoopers, in a range of roles from transactional to initiating and leading material strategic change as well as acquisitions and disposals. He has worked both in the UK and the US.

Derek Soper, chairman of IAA-Advisory, said: “Lindsay is a wonderful addition to our team. His unique combination of experience across many aspects of IAA’s work will be a great plus for our business. We are all looking forward to working with him and benefiting from his knowledge and contacts in the industry.”