Ben Wright biography

Ben is Chief Innovation Officer and Managing Director of Progress at business lifecycle agency Melo.  As an ex-financial planner, Ben now works with financial advice firms of all sizes on business efficiency, leadership and soft-skills adviser coaching. Having worked in bancassurance, as a financial planner, in fund management, with white-labelled platform solutions and on the exec board at a financial advice network, Ben has the benefit of seeing the profession through many lenses.

Ben is a Chartered Financial Planner and a Fellow of the PFS.  Having left school with only GCSE's, completing the CII's financial services qualifications allowed Ben to attend Manchester Metropolitan University in 2016, where he graduated with a MSc in Financial Planning and Business Management. 

Ben is also Non-Executive Director a national financial planning network.