Neil has worked at Verdict for almost nine years and is currently Consulting Director. In this role he is responsible for all aspects of the consulting division and heads up most client projects, working with retail and consumer related companies to help develop, evolve and implement business strategies. In recent years, Neil has worked with and advised many of the UK's leading retailers, including Marks & Spencer and Sainsbury’s.

Neil has authored a number of reports, including an influential analysis for the British Council of Shopping Centres of the impact changing consumer demographics will have on retailers and shopping places. Neil is a frequent contributor to both television and radio programmes as well as being quoted in the trade and national press; he is also regularly invited to be a guest speaker at retail conferences.

Neil has also served as Corporate Development and Planning Director at Verdict. In this role he was responsible for medium and long term strategic planning, the development of all new products and services and the management of ventures with third parties. Prior to Verdict, Neil worked for the John Lewis Partnership where he was involved, among other things, in the planning and relocation of new stores, the development of the John Lewis website and the creation of technical and information systems.

Neil serves as a non-executive director of the train operating company First Great Western and is a Visiting Fellow at the School of Management, University of Surrey.