South west Financial Planning and accountancy firm Old Mill has added Chartered Financial Planner Tim Blowers to its wealth management team.

He has 12 years of experience in financial services having started his career at adviser platform Novia.

Mr Blowers spent a number of years in technical roles before joining Brunel Capital Partners as a paraplanner in 2016.

He is qualified in long term care insurance and also has extensive knowledge of later life planning with expertise in pensions, inheritance tax planning, estate planning, cashflow planning and complex scenarios.

Mr Blowers joins Old Mill from Evelyn Partners.

He said one of the main attractions of the role was the appointment of his former colleague Amanda Browning as head of wealth management. Ms Browning joined Old Mill earlier this year.

He said: “I had worked with Amanda at Evelyn and had been hugely impressed with her leadership skills and vision for how collaborative working between financial planning and accountancy can create a truly holistic service.

“This, combined with the excellent reputation of Old Mill in the market, an impressive growth record with even bigger plans still to come - and the firm’s shared belief in the value of integration and collaboration - meant I knew it was the right fit for me both personally and professionally.”

Old Mill is currently halfway through a five-year plan to double in size and recently appointed its first chief operating officer to expediate growth at the business and develop its operational infrastructure.