Barry Neilson

Business development director

Where were you working before you started Nucleus and what was your role?
Working at F&C as Director of Business Development, with responsibility for managing the UK intermediary proposition

Why did you decide to join Nucleus?
Want to be part of a business that is genuinely aligned to its clients' needs and aspirations and is willing to continually develop it's proposition for their benefit

What are you trying to achieve in your role with Nucleus?
To ensure that the Nucleus proposition is adopted by it's potential audience and that we play a key role in creating a community of IFAs who lead the way in financial planning leading up to RDR and beyond

Which historical figure do you most admire and why?
Picasso. For his sheer visionary talent and the ease and speed at which he changed peoples' perceptions of artistic boundaries which had been established for centuries

What is your favourite journey?
Driving along the coastal road from Negril to Kingston in Jamaica and stopping off to meet Peter Tosh's mother on the way!

What’s the best concert that you’ve attended?
My Bloody Valentine (supported by Teenage Fanclub) at the Glasgow Barrowland in December 1991 was both the best and the loudest

What super-power would you most like to have, and why?
The ability to control the weather

If you were to have dinner with three people who would they be?
Muhammed Ali, Lee Scratch Perry and Paul Auster