Graham has more than 30 years’ experience of advising owner-managed businesses, giving a unique insight into the challenges they face on a day-to-day basis.

A Chartered Accountant with a number of additional business-related qualifications, Graham is also able to draw on personal experience when advising this sector, having grown Lamont Pridmore from small beginnings into an organisation nationally recognised for the quality and range of its services.

He has been involved since the outset with the huge task of financing and building the very successful Theatre by the Lake in Keswick, and remains the Joint Chair of the management committee.

Graham has also been the founding President of the Cumbria Chamber of Commerce, Chairman of the Employment and Skills Board, Regional Council Member of the Learning & Skills Council and a Judge for the National Business Awards.

Born and raised in Cumbria, he is married to Maggie with one son Christopher. Graham’s hobbies include theatre, art, reading, jogging and golf.

As a partner in a family business himself, Chris has a thorough understanding of the issues facing this sector on a day to day basis, making him ideally placed to advise others.

Chris is a Chartered Accountant and has recently returned to the family firm after working for a top 30 practice in London in order to provide long term continuity for Lamont Pridmore. Over the past 7 years Chris has had a wide range of experience in the profession having worked on sole trader and partnership accounts but specialised in small to medium sized companies.

Chris was born and raised in Cumbria, is married to Alison, who is a qualified Embryologist, and they have two sons, Theo and Nathanial. In his spare time, Chris enjoys golf, cricket, DIY, cooking and entertaining friends.