Wearside wealth management company Northern Spire marked its 21st anniversary by signing up its 1,000th client and two more team members.
David Cook, who launched financial advice company Northern Spire in Sunderland, revealed the company now has more than £140m under its management. He started his journey selling coach holidays to travel agents before moving into the financial sector.
Mr Cook, a founder of the Mussel Club networking organisation, said: “I was looking for something else, but I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. Then on a works night out, we ended up in a bar where the comedian Spike Rawlings was having a drink. I overheard a conversation in which he was saying he’d been earning good money as a financial adviser.
