Simon Garling

Managing Director

I am married with two grown up children and live in the Cotswolds.

I have been in the industry since 1987 & started S.O.E. Consultants which morphed into S.O.E. Financial when Vikas joined me a few years ago.  I like to go on a morning run most days through the beautiful Cotswold countryside with my border collie Sunny

Most weekends I can be found messing about with old cars, either with my head under the bonnet fixing things, preparing a car for a show or watching historic car racing and enjoying the occasional track day.

Vikas Jain

Director

Vikas lives in the Midlands with his wife and 3 young daughters. Having been qualified & working in the industry since 2004, he brings with him a breadth and depth of specialist mortgage and insurance knowledge. Vikas has spent 10 of those years with national corporate estate agents as their in house mortgage adviser. He joined S.O.E. Financial, in his own words, “because of their personal touch and straight speaking attitude,” something Vikas says is missing from financial services.
Outside of work Vikas is a charity football league player and if he isn’t spending time with his daughters he will be found honing his cooking skills as he is allegedly quite a cook!

Akeel Hussain

Advisor

Primarily a mortgage & protection adviser, I have been involved in financial services & the property sector for nearly 20 years. My experience in other fields such as teaching, IT & hospitality have given me a well rounded & systematic approach to different scenarios.  All my clients will benefit from this diverse experience as part of the advice process which will help to create & maintain a long term business relationship.  When not working I can be found down at the cricket pitch indulging my huge passion & enthusiasm for the game.