We Are Corporate Auctions

Jeremy Isaacs

Career in manufacture, retail and property industry. History of maximising value and succesfully creating income producing businesses for turnaround. Enjoyment of working with small companies as much as large sized corporations, focussing predominately on high care attention to service and introducing like minded business angels in key areas suited to the respected industry and requirement. Work satisfaction is in reducing company directors  personal exposure.

Andrea Hackney

Andrea's background is market research and uses her many years of experience in this field to relentlessly search the internet, and continues to ensure that items on sale are marketed in the correct manner to sell at the best possible prices for our clients. Also provides after sales reports/presentations to show buying trends for certain products.

Paul Hackney

Having worked for Royal Mail for many years, Paul's background is logistics and warehousing. He is responsible for overseeing the warehouse ensuring safe storage of client's products and looking after the health and safety of our staff and any visitors to our premises .

David Hughes

David has over ten years experience in the online auction business. He manages the Corporate Auctions selling process and is responsible for client account liaison. His objective is to obtain the best overall outcome for his clients.

Chris Wood

With a strong technical background in software and IT, Chris oversees the maintenance and development of new and existing systems toward greater company efficiency.

The Team

Head office/warehouse is staffed by an experienced group of full-time professionals. These include highly-skilled listing staff that can handle a wide variety of items and who aim to achieve above-average sale prices. There are also specialist marketing, warehouse management and logistics personnel. The overall team ethos is to maximise efficiency and achieve best value.



Jonathan Crawley

Career retail professional with extensive business turnaround experience. Specialist in Private Label business development, marketing and finance. Positions held in a variety of companies, including Head of Home, Bentalls plc; Director, Harrods; Managing Director, Conran. Jonathan specialises in Product Development, Direct Sourcing, Team / Financial Restructure, Marketing, Business Strategy, E-Commerce development.


Stuart Cooper

In his role with Roger Hannah & Co - who are in association with Corporate Auctions - Stuart leads their commercial and industrial agency department dealing with sales and lettings throughout the North West.

Pauline O'Beirne

A well respected hard hitting retailer with drive to produce results incorporating marketing, commercial and strategic skill. Drafted into business by banks, restructuring and recovery companies relying on information in understanding format Pauline has an excellent track record and in performing in this current economic climate.


Hugh Edwards

Commercial Director with a track record of success over 25 years working for Mars, Kingfisher, DSGi, TUI UK and more recently focussed on private equity with Brighthouse (Terra Firma) and MFI (MEP).
Reduced MFI's stockholding from £62m to £29m over a 15 week period.

Steve Clark

Finance Director with a 20 year record of continuous achievement in commercial finance roles across retail and manufacturing.
Ten years experience of turnarounds and business change projects.

Ged Dempsey

A very experienced retailer with 35 years experience who held senior positions within Comet, Thorn EMI Retail Division, Courts International and Homeserve.

MD of the highly successful Courts International business, MD of Homeserve and played a leading role in the growth and sale of Brighthouse.

Mark Thornton

Store operations expert with over 25 years experience and with extensive stock liquidation experience working with SB Capital on a series of nationwide store closures.

Worked alongside PWC and SB Capital on stock liquidation of Courts Furniture, Elephant Furniture and the Greeting Card Group.

Tony Shepherd

Thirty years plus in auctioneering and commercial Enforcement Service Agency. Fully coherent with all laws relating to peaceful and walk in possession, levy on goods and distress warrants. Well respected by HM Revenue & Customs and experienced landlords. Tony offers a service second to none, experienced team of male and female officers, responds to same day warrants across the nation. Further attributes are determined enforcer on retention of title and ownership issues together with negotiating skills for director/management buy backs

Martin Heelam Cert PFS CeMAP

Ten years experience in financial services offering independent finance advice to help you realise your objectives, finding the right package to suit your needs. Available to individuals and businesses alike looking to finance, for example, a purchase(s) from one of our auctions/tenders; or perhaps your business requires finance during liquidation proceedings.

Gavin Wright

Head of waste disposal/removal, providing a highly competitive, professional service offering a comprehensive range of collection and delivery/disposal services within the UK and Europe.

Working to "Just in Time" principles, maintaining consistently high standards for consignment handling, responding to your call within minutes, allocating a dedicated vehicle from an extensive fleet ranging from small courier vans to 38 tonne articulated vehicles, all of which are equipped with modern telecommunication systems enabling national and international tracking.

Louise Knight

In her role as Business Development Director with Ernst & Young, and more recently as an independent strategic advisor, Louise has worked with fast growth entrepreneurial businesses to support the owners as they prepared a business for sale. Louise now brings her thirteen years of experience in this capacity to Corporate Auctions, which will add great value as we offer our services to other businesses.