Meet the Directors

For personal online security and confidentiality reasons, we no longer provides details of our staff, but we are pleased to provide biographies of our Directors.

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    Peter Cooper Managing Director & Chartered Financial Planner

    Peter commenced his career in 1986 with a large financial services company before becoming an Independent Financial Adviser in 1992. Peter is both a Chartered Financial Planner through the Chartered Insurance Institute and a Certified Financial Planner and Chartered Wealth Manager with the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment. Peter is also one of only a small number of people in the country to be a Fellow of the Personal Finance Society (FPFS) and a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (FCSI). Peter is also Investment Management Certificate (IMC) qualified through the CFA Society of the UK.

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    Melanie Park Director & Chartered Financial Planner

    With a 1st class honours degree in Financial Services Management, Melanie commenced her career in Financial Services in 2006 and has worked for a number of leading Financial Planning companies before joining Cooper Johnston in 2018.

    Melanie is a Chartered Financial Planner through the Chartered Insurance Institute, a Fellow of the Personal Finance Society (FPFS) and Investment Management Certificate (IMC) qualified through the CFA Society of the UK.

    Melanie is a member of ‘Women in Financial Planning’ encouraging a greater diversity in our profession.

  • Monty Collie Head of Security

    Monty was our ‘Head of Security’ and responsible for keeping the office secure and eating the biscuits! We are devastated to report that Monty died in March having reached the age of 13. He was a wonderful character and is missed by everyone. RIP Monty boy.

Cooper Park Wealth Management

43 East Parade
Harrogate
HG1 5LQ