About the facilitatoRS

Paul Barnard CA (SA)
Paul Barnard is the founder of North Star Solutions. He has spent 25 years working in various senior financial management roles both locally and in Europe. The last six years of his corporate career were as Group Financial Director of a major consumer finance company.

Paul left corporate life early in 2007 to pursue his long standing interest in financial education and public speaking. He has developed all the training material for this workshop and updates it on a regular basis.

Paul is a Chartered Accountant (SA), a qualified Debt Counsellor (NCR DC528) and has won numerous public speaking awards.

Tony Skeens (ACIS)
Tony is a Chartered Secretary with over 30 years of financial experience in corporate business. Tony joined North Star Solutions in 2009 to pursue his passion for helping people improve their personal money management skills. Prior to joining North Star Solutions Tony lectured part-time on numerous occasions and is an empathetic and skilled communicator.