Contributor Profile
Helen Cousins
- Company: Xcel Business Solutions
- Position: Principal Consultant
- LinkedIn: http://ie.linkedin.com/in/helencousins
- Website: http://www.xbs.ie/
Quick Bio
Helen Cousins is a Chartered Accountant by profession with more than 25 years of business experience. She currently operates Xcel Business Solutions, delivering management consultancy, mentoring, training & financial services to SMEs. She particularly enjoys working with small companies, where small changes can have a big – and positive – effect on profits.
Helen loves networking with business people both online and offline, and is an active social media networker.
Helen is also a self catering entrepreneur, and operates a holiday home business on the family farm in Wexford. She works closely with the tourist industry, and is currently a director of the Irish Self Catering Federation, the representative body for holiday home operators in
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/XcelBusiness
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/XcelBusiness
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