A career here
Gary Smithies
Consultant
Accountancy to glorified tea boy and then, hitting the heights
Realising that a career in accountancy wasn't for him, Gary joined Sun Alliance Insurance as a Sales Support Role (perhaps better described as a tea boy!).
It soon became apparent that the best prospects for career progression within Sun Alliance were open to the sales advisers and so Gary applied for, and was accepted onto, Sun Alliances' snappily-named SCUT course (Sales Consultants Under Training).
This was an intensive 12 month course at the end of which Gary got the keys to his company car and a list of Independent Financial Advisers to generate business from - none of which had ever had dealings with Sun Alliance!
The next 4 years were spent developing business from these Independent Financial Advisers before promotion to cover the Nottingham area.
It was at this time that Gary started to call on Ulyatts. They quickly developed a good working relationship, which culminated in Gary being offered a position as an Adviser. Keen to develop his career, Gary joined in January 1997 and ten years on, hasn't looked back.
