Worldwide Financial Planning

Peter McGahan
Chief Executive Officer

Location Ireland

Peter has over 33 years in Financial services. When buying his first home at age 19, Peter was confused by the advice given to him, and immediately looked to that as a career.

He was a manager at Albany Life for eight years before setting up Worldwide financial Planning in 1998, despondent at the restrictions placed upon him whilst not being able to offer Independent financial advice.

Peter has written for FT Business and other financial press as well as consumer columns for over 20 years.

He was voted media IFA of the year alongside Tom McPhail of Hargreaves Lansdowne because of his forthright style and healthy cynicism of financial products.

Today, Peter works with the Investment research team, oversees the marketing and as CEO, sits on the board with Trish Rogan and Matthew Dewhurst.

Matt Dewhurst
Company Secretary

Location Truro

Matt started working for Worldwide in 2004.

In his spare time he enjoys making the most of the fantastic coast line Cornwall has, getting involved in activities both on land and on the water.

Matt’s leisure time pursuits include kayaking, trail riding, beach barbecues and chasing a frisbee with friends.

He also likes to make time when he can for live music and comedy.

Adrian Lowe

Location Gloucestershire

We are delighted to have Adrian Lowe as our Compliance Director at Worldwide. Adrian is based in Gloucestershire where he lives with his wife Rebecca and their two daughters – Georgia, aged 12 and Imogen, aged 11. Adrian’s two sons, Aaron, 26, and Jake, 22, live in Gloucester. He is a huge rugby man and used to play semi-pro. His father and grandfather played for Gloucester and his grandfather also played for England.

Adrian’s CV is hugely impressive. He is an accomplished and results-oriented professional with progressive experience in all forms of regulatory issues in various financial sectors.

He has worked for organisations such as Studio Retail, Brunsdon Financial, Hampton House International, Unum Dental, N Brown Group PLC, Saffron Building Society, Hitachi Capital and much more.

Adrian is delighted with this opportunity to be working with us again. In his own words he says he always has had a ‘soft spot’ for Worldwide and our team. He very much shares and applauds our ethos and our values.

Eleanor McGillie

Location Northern Ireland

Eleanor McGillie is Worldwide Financial Planning’s Communications Director. She is based in Northern Ireland and works with her colleagues in Cornwall, Southampton, Somerset and Northern Ireland.

Eleanor has been working with us since June 2021 and is charged with writing and implementing communication strategies for our firm. She will lead the launch of our rebrand, deliver our key messages to our audiences which span across multiple publishing platforms.

Eleanor, who is based in Northern Ireland, but is no stranger to the Westcountry, will provide the direction of communications within our firm, writing and implementing strategies, managing communications, managing our brand as well as event planning and coordinating. She leads all internal and external communications, liaising with both internal and external stakeholders in implementing the firm’s strategies.

Many people in the business community will know of Eleanor. She spent almost 10 years working in the Westcountry as a senior journalist for Torquay’s Herald Express, she held the assistant news editor and deputy news editor positions at the Western Morning News as well as news editor for Western Daily Press. Since moving back to Northern Ireland she has been managing the brand communications for organisations and businesses both in public and private sectors for nine years.

Katie Rose
Personal Assistant

Location Truro

Katie is based in our Truro office and provides administrative support across Worldwide.

Originally born in Basildon, Essex, she later moved to Cornwall when she was 13 to be closer to family.

Katie graduated from Plymouth College of Art in 2013 with a 2:1 Degree in Fashion Design.

In her spare time she enjoys shopping, going to the cinema, movie nights, spending time with family and friends as well as enjoying the lovely coastal walks and beaches around Cornwall with her two dogs Rodney and Del.

Suzanne Webb
Personal Assistant

Location Truro

Suzanne is based in our Truro office and provides admin support for the advisers and management.

Before joining Worldwide in November 2012, Suzanne worked for Lloyds Private Banking and Wealth Management for 34 years, working in the Truro Private Banking office.

Suzanne is married to Chris (who also paints our offices) and has two daughters – Jade and Jasmine.
In her spare time Suzanne enjoys spending long summer days on the beach with family and friends and looking after her daughter’s French Bulldog ‘Matilda’.

Alex Kirwan

Location Truro

Alex is our full-time receptionist in our Truro office and our team is delighted to have her as part of our ever expanding Worldwide family.

Alex lives just outside on Truro and loves that she is a short commute away from our Truro head office. When she joined our firm, some of the words our colleagues used to describe her were: "proactive, cheerful, focused, responsible, funny, bright, helpful, a great team worker, a very together person and well balanced". All of which are true!

Before coming to Worldwide, Alex worked for Winners but did not particularly enjoy the sales side of her role and so she much preferred to have a job which was more people facing. Alex very much loves being a part of our team and she has an absolutely lovely rapport with our customers, our advisers and our senior management team.

When she’s not working, she loves spending time with her family and friends, going on beach walks, the occasional sea swim and she also loves cooking!

Celine Desmettre

Location Truro, Cornwall

Celine Desmettre is one of our Personal Assistants at Worldwide Financial Planning and is based in our Truro office with our Cornwall based independent financial advisers, personal assistants and senior management team.

Worldwide Financial Planning welcomed Celine Desmettre to the firm in August 2021. Celine is French and hails from Provence, but, when she first stepped foot in Cornwall, she felt like she was at home so she stuck with her gut feeling and stayed and has been here ever since.

Celine has a wealth of experience which she has built up through her work in Cornwall and also previous positions she has held in France.

She worked for 15 years as a general secretary supporting a business director in France – a job which she loved for 15 years. Her role involved PA support, travel and expenses. A bit closer to home, she has worked in Rick Stein’s and at the Pannier Market in Truro. She has held lots of roles over the years from au pair to junior secretary to head receptionist and PA to Heads of Departments.

However, one of her biggest achievements was the role she played in organising a European Seminar on the need for nuclear training involving 20 countries when she was working for Technicatome Training Centre as a Logistics Assistant.

Outside of work Celine loves walking her Shih Tzu, Lady, she loves walking in the countryside and she loves reading and singing. She is also a great dancer and specifically loves salsa and bachata dances.

Lindsey Marchant

Location Southampton

Lindsey Marchant joined the Worldwide Financial Planning team and is the Administration Assistant in our Southampton office working alongside our Southampton based IFAs.

Lindsey is originally from the North – born in Liverpool and lived in Chester but moved to Southampton in her early 20s where she has lived and worked ever since.

Linsey brings to Worldwide a wealth of experience having worked for 30 years in pension administration, training and mentoring team members.

During her professional career she has delivered technical workshops, peer review calculations and documentation for all types of retirement movements and has a superb skill in meeting client expectations and deadlines.

She has worked as a customer service technician, a lean analyst and regulatory reporting technician and has a wealth of training and education in such things as regulatory training CBTs. In these roles, Lindsey has implemented her training as a lean analyst to focus her knowledge and understanding to applying lean processes and techniques. Her experience is vast too in obtaining, cleansing and submitting regulatory reports to governing bodies namely FCA, The Pensions Regulator and HMRC.

Lindsey is a brilliant person to have on our team and she's so highly regarded among her colleagues across all of our offices.