Edward Pacey

Edward Pacey is director of credit services at Bell Microproducts Europe

Edward Pacey has more than 30 years of experience in credit management in three distinct and quite different industry sectors: film and leisure with a division of the Rank Organisation; engineering, with a division of B Elliott Plc; and latterly since 1992, technology, with Bell Microproducts Europe.

Edward joined Ideal Hardware Ltd in 1992 and following successful flotation of the business in 1994, the company was sold in 1999 to Bell Microproducts Inc, a Nasdaq listed company based in San Jose, California.

Bell Microproducts Inc is the world's largest specialist storage trade distributor with sales in excess of $3bn. Revenue of European businesses across seven countries is in excess of $1.3bn.

Edward is a regular contributor of articles to trade journals within the IT sector and specialist credit management publications on a broad range of issues specialising in credit, business, risk and financial services. His presentations within the sector and the credit industry - nationally and internationally - have covered numerous topics such as fraud avoidance, risk management, collection, automation, scoring, market trends and the heightened relevance of credit management as a stand alone and front-end business function contributing directly to increased business activity and profit.

He is currently director of credit services for Bell Microproducts Europe and is a Fellow of the Institute of Credit Management.