Derek Evans

Derek Evans is the joint business owner and Associate Partner at Ashley Law Crawley, part of the national firm of Independent Financial Advisers. Derek works in partnership with his wife, Tracey.

Although Derek has been actively involved in the business since its inception, Derek joined Ashley Law Crawley full time as joint business owner and Associate Partner in 2011. To become an IFA, Derek needed to gain industry approved qualifications. Derek studied with the IFS School of Finance and completed the Certificate for Financial Advisers (CeFA®). He is now working towards the Diploma (DipFA®) which is scheduled for completion in February 2012.

Derek is a consummate sales professional with over twenty years previous experience in the ICT Industry. He previously worked for BT Wholesale and BT Global Services, joining in 2003 to lead major transformational deals for managed and outsourced ICT services. He has also held positions at Thus plc. ntl, EDS, Siemens and THORN EMI.

Not unsurprisingly given his background, Derek is IT savvy to the core.  As well as being responsible for maintaining Ashley Law Crawley’s IT systems he  has  built a strong social media presence for the business utilising Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and blogging over many years -  long before these tools assumed their current popularity.  With the last 15 years of his corporate life spent working with senior Directors and negotiating contracts from a position of delivering value, Derek has built a reputation for being considered in his views and actions; for being a great thinker, a calming influence and a man of real integrity. He is also a great planner with an unerring eye for detail.

Positively brimming with enthusiasm Derek is most definitely a man with a mission, which is?  - “To communicate what makes Ashley Law Crawley so very different from other practices and most importantly how our clients benefit from this.”

Derek lives in Copthorne, West Sussex with his wife, Tracey. Derek and has 3 sons. When not working he enjoys travel, Formula 1 Motorsport and Photography.