MARTIN Greenshields has joined Cleckheaton-based interim finance directors specialist FDYL following a career spent in commerce and industry in South Yorkshire.

Mr Greenshields (pictured), a Freeman of the Cutlers Company, began his career as a chartered accountant with Grant Thornton in Sheffield before taking roles with Firth Vickers Special Steels – part of the Johnson Firth Brown Group – Padley & Venables in Dronfield and 3i.

He later spent more than 20 years as finance director of George H Cook & Co Ltd, a privately-owned steel stockholder in Sheffield. For the past six years, he has worked in corporate finance in Sheffield with specialist adviser Hardy Transaction Management, advising both vendors and acquisitive companies and groups, mainly in the engineering sector.