Barry Stamp BA FICM ACIB Barry has wide experience of consumer and corporate credit, gained initially at NatWest and Barclays. He then worked as Mortgage Manager of US insurer Lincoln National, Divisional Director of National Home Loans Corporation plc, Director and General Manager of Business Loans, Director of The National Mortgage Bank, Senior Executive at Bass and Director and General Manager of Experian. He co-founded the Credit Reporting Agency in 1999, which through checkmyfile.com was the first company in the world to make credit scoring available to consumers and the first company to put credit reports online in the UK. In 2006 the company launched annualcreditreport.co.uk - the first company to provide a free annual subscription service to UK consumers. Barry has held several credit industry appointments including an Executive Member of the Association of Mortgage Lenders, Chairman of the Brewery Lending Group and has served as a co-opted observer on the CIFAS board - the UK's fraud prevention service. He is a serving member of the Institute of Credit Management's (ICM) Technical Advisory Committee - which provides feedback to government on credit issues. His other published works include the legal and consumer credit chapters of 'Tolley's Effective Credit Control and Debt Collection' (Butterworths) and 'Advanced Credit Management' (ICM) Barry is also a trustee of the registered charity Country Holidays for Inner City Kids ('Chicks') - www.chicks.org.uk.