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This list showcases the top London based Director operating in the Accounting space. If you think a Director is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Suchitra Nair
Director of Deloitte
Suchitra is a Director in the EMEA Centre for Regulatory Strategy, leading the work on Technological Innovation and Regulation. Her work focuses on assessing the strategic impact of technological innovation on regulation and the broader financial services ecosystem. Suchitra is a qualified Chartered Accountant and previously worked in Deloitte’s Audit, Corporate Finance and Regulatory Advisory teams.
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About Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
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David Harris
Creative Director of Deloitte
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About Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Ian Burrows
Director, Brand and Engagement of Deloitte
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About Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Mark Williment
Director of Deloitte
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About Deloitte, Keytree: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Will Powell
Director Of Innovation of Deloitte
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About Deloitte, Keytree: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Shilpa Shah
Director of Deloitte
Shilpa Shah is a Director in the Deloitte Consulting practice with over 22 years of technology and data driven transformation experience and expertise. Shilpa is an innovator and disruptor who challenges the status quo. While leading data driven transformation for our clients, she has built different businesses within Deloitte. These include the Delivery Models capability and a business wide sales support function. She has also been leading Deloitte Pixel to establish a crowdsourcing capability and business within the firm. Passionate about improving equality and broadening participation in the technology industry, she also leads the Deloitte Women in Technology Network driving long term sustainable cultural change. She builds relationships and has created many partnerships with organisations outside of Deloitte to help them make an impact that matters, on the diversity in STEM agenda. Shilpa is also an Industry Advisory board member of the government and industry funded Institute of Coding which is focused on addressing the shortfall in digital skills for the UK.
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About Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Felix Lepetit
Director of Deloitte
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About Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Barry Borhani
Associate Director of Ernst & Young
A senior executive with over 30 years’ experience in Oil & gas and engineering; recent roles in Global super majors (BG-Group/Shell), Big 4 Consultancy (EY and PwC) and Management Contracting companies (KBR, Halliburton). Strong project management /Project controls , contract and procurement, analytical expertise obtained whilst working on major global programs ($100MM to $23 Billion) in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
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About CPEC.ai, Ernst & Young, Harvey Milton: Ernst & Young is a provider of assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services.
David Pybus
Director of Ernst & Young
David Pybus is a Director in the EY Cybersecurity team and routinely helps clients with improving their cybersecurity programmes. David has twenty years experience in cybersecurity, much of it gleaned from previous roles in industry. He has first hand experience of managing the securing, scanning and patching of systems going from long since out of support operating systems all the way through to considering how to manage the patching levels of modern cloud and mobile environments
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About Ernst & Young: Ernst & Young is a provider of assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services.
Thomas Bull
Director of Ernst & Young
Tom Bull is a Director in the FinTech team at EY, based in London. He has led a range of research projects in the sector for the UK Government and the European Commission, including analysis of the FinTech ecosystem, P2P lending and crowdfunding sectors. He also leads major research work by EY including the EY FinTech Adoption Index, which identifies level of traction that FinTech is gaining with consumers. Tom’s background is in corporate finance and has worked on both cross boarder and domestic M&A processes. He has led acquisition and disposal processes for clients across various European countries as well as within Asia.
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About Ernst & Young, Ernst & Young: Ernst & Young is a provider of assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services.
Nina Triantis
Managing Director, Global Head of Telecoms and Media of Standard Bank
Over 30 years investment banking experience, specialised in the TMT sector with experience throughout the developed world and the emerging markets for over 15 years. Also responsible for coordination and coverage of financial sponsors including private equity, institutional investors, family offices and sovereign wealth funds with a focus of transactions into Africa across sector, but with a focus on FMCG, Financial Services, Industrials and TMT. Has led complex and plain vanilla financing transactions across the capital spectrum, including in the public debt markets. Wide ranging M&A advisory and capital raise experience with a focus on the African continent latterly. Diverse and broad client base across TMT within all sectors and sub-sectors and with Financial sponsors including global and regional players. MBA from Stern New York University graduate school of business and BA in Economics and French from Columbia University.
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About Standard Bank: Standard Bank has a long history in banking and operates in thirty three countries.
Christian Fleck
Managing Director, UK/Ireland & Pacific of LexisNexis
Mr. Fleck heads LexisNexis’ largest country operation outside the U.S., covering three principal lines of business: legal and tax information solutions and enterprise software. Leveraging nearly two centuries of expertise since the inception of the organization in 1818, Mr. Fleck manages the expansion from market leading information offerings to award winning workflow solutions for legal & tax professionals. Mr. Fleck joined our organization in 2002 in the Global Strategy & Business Development team in our New York head office. Prior to his current role, Mr. Fleck led LexisNexis Germany and Central Europe, with sizeable operations in Germany, Austria and Poland. He also served in Latin America as General Manager of the LexisNexis Mexico business, leading online migration and adjacent market expansion. Before joining LexisNexis, Mr. Fleck was a strategic management consultant with Monitor Group in Munich, Germany and Los Angeles advising clients in the TMT sectors and beyond. He started out his career in banking at Warburg Bank in Germany. Mr. Fleck earned graduate degrees in Germany and the U.S., including an MSc from Handelshochschule Leipzig, a leading German business school, and an MBA from Tulane University.
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About LexisNexis: LexisNexis offers content-enabled workflow solutions in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, accounting, and academic markets.
Oliver Cummings
Commercial Director of Capitalise.com
Oliver is the Partnerships Manager at MarketInvoice, one of Europe’s largest peer-to-peer fintech platforms. We’ve helped more than 1,000 UK small businesses raise over £400m in funds since launch in 2011. The British Business Bank uses MarketInvoice as part of its programme to stimulate funding to UK businesses, and has lent over £50m on our platform. Oliver has a wide network in venture capital, corporate finance and the UK startup community from his experience at Nauta Capital Venture Capital Partners, Smith & Williamson Corporate Finance, HSBC and EY. “Cash is king” and Oliver loves helping growing companies solve their cash flow hurdles via various funding methods from Venture Capital to their own sales ledger.
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About Capitalise.com: Capitalise uses a little funding magic to identify the best financing options available for your business.
Alex Deane
Senior Managing Director (Partner) Strategic Communications, Head of Public Affairs UK of FTI Consulting
Alex Deane is a Senior Managing Director (Partner) Strategic Communications, Head of Public Affairs UK at FTI Consulting.
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About FTI Consulting: FTI Consulting is a global business advisory firm.
Maureen Kerr
Managing Director of FTI Consulting
Maureen Kerr is a Managing Director at FTI Consulting and is based in London. Ms. Kerr specialises in advising companies in the media & entertainment, digital and marketing services industries. Her work covers new business entry strategy and implementation, mergers and acquisition (M&A) advisory, post-integration planning, business plan development and due diligence. Since joining FTI, Ms Kerr has led transactions and commercial due diligence projects for Private Equity funds and Corporates in the media sectors, comprising: film/tv rights, content production and distribution, broadcast services, advertising technology, multi-player network platform, information/data & Insights markets. Prior to joining FTI, Ms. Kerr lead business strategy and M&A for US-based Media Group working with the private equity group Apollo Global. From 2011, she headed up the M&A team at Fremantle Media, an international TV production and distribution group and lead a number of transactions in the USA and Europe in the areas of production, branded content and digital services. She co-founded MLJ Partners LLP in 2006, a business strategy and corporate finance advisory firm. Prior to forming MLJ, she was at United Business Media, a FTSE 100 company, where she held served in several capacities including M&A Director, reporting to the CEO. Ms. Kerr advised on all aspects of investment strategy and divestiture. She also led the integration planning efforts across all transactions. She began her career at KPMG Management Consultants, where she served as a consultant in the strategy, economics and marketing group.
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About Chelsea Apps Factory, FTI Consulting, MLJ Partners: FTI Consulting is a global business advisory firm.
Gemma Doyle
Managing Director of FTI Consulting
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About FTI Consulting: FTI Consulting is a global business advisory firm.
Joshua Atkins
Director of FTI Consulting
Josh joined FTI Consulting’s Energy and National Resources team in January 2019. He has deep knowledge of electricity and renewables markets having spent four and a half years at Energy UK leading on low carbon generation, investment and planning policy. Before that he worked in smart metering and on the Government’s electricity market reform programme. Outside his primary role, Josh has set up and run an LGBT+ network for the energy sector and a cross-industry working group addressing diversity in all its forms. Pride in Energy seeks to create a forum for LGBT+ people across the UK’s energy industry whilst the Equality and Diversity Forum aims to share and drive inclusivity best practice for companies and organisations operating within the industry.
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About FTI Consulting: FTI Consulting is a global business advisory firm.
Joshua Atkins
Director of FTI Consulting
Josh joined FTI Consulting’s Energy and National Resources team in January 2019. He has deep knowledge of electricity and renewables markets having spent four and a half years at Energy UK leading on low carbon generation, investment and planning policy. Before that he worked in smart metering and on the Government’s electricity market reform programme. Outside his primary role, Josh has set up and run an LGBT+ network for the energy sector and a cross-industry working group addressing diversity in all its forms. Pride in Energy seeks to create a forum for LGBT+ people across the UK’s energy industry whilst the Equality and Diversity Forum aims to share and drive inclusivity best practice for companies and organisations operating within the industry.
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About FTI Consulting: FTI Consulting is a global business advisory firm.
Lorraine Catt
Transformation and Shared Services Director of IQ-EQ
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About IQ-EQ: IQ-EQ is a multi-jurisdictional provider of investor and corporate services in Europe and beyond.
Alex Myers
Director, Product Strategy of Exact
Alex Myers serves as director of product strategy at Exact.
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About Exact, RIMES Technologies: Exact is a company that provides cloud based business software for entrepreneurs and their accountants.
Frank Bevis
Director of Pdf2xbrl
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About Konnect Soft, Pdf2xbrl: Pdf2xbrl is a software that converts accounts in PDF, word, and excel format.
Polly Ralph
Director of PwC UK
Polly is a Director and member of the leadership team in in PwC’s UK Data Protection Strategy, Law and Compliance practice. She is a Barrister & Solicitor (High Court of New Zealand), and works with some of the world’s largest organisations on data protection and privacy matters, across a broad range of topics including GDPR implementation, ePrivacy, marketing, outsourcing, technology and international transfer issues. She has worked exclusively in data protection/privacy since 2004, having started her career at the NZ Privacy Commission. Since then, she has worked as data privacy counsel and DPO in industries as diverse as the BBC, law enforcement, and insurance. Polly is ISEB accredited in data protection, and holds the International Association of Privacy Professionals’ CIPP/E and CIPPM certifications.
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Mark Lee
Non-Executive Director of onkho
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Alma Angotti
Managing Director and Co-Head of Global Investigations and Compliance of Guidehouse
Alma Angotti is a Managing Director and Co-Head of the Global Investigations & Compliance practice. Ms. Angotti is a recognized expert in anti-money laundering (AML), combatting the financing of terrorism (CFT) and economic sanctions compliance. She has counselled her clients in a variety of projects, and managed gap analyses, compliance program reviews, risk assessments, remediation efforts, investigations, and historical transaction reviews. Her clients include large, complex, global financial institutions, global payments institutions, mid-sized banks, broker-dealers, and Fintech and digital assets companies, hedge funds, casinos, and multinational corporations. Ms. Angotti has held interim senior compliance leadership positions at several global and regional financial institutions providing day-to-day management of their compliance programs and assisting them with remediation efforts, often in the context of a regulatory or criminal enforcement action. She has trained and advised the financial services industry and regulators and government officials worldwide on AML, sanctions, CFT and other regulatory compliance issues. With over 25 years of experience in regulation and enforcement, Ms. Angotti has held senior enforcement positions at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority). In these positions, she was responsible for investigations and enforcement of the Bank Secrecy Act, the federal securities laws, and FINRA rules. At FinCEN and FINRA, she designed and lead the AML enforcement programs.
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About Guidehouse: Guidehouse is a global provider of consulting services with a focus on driving cross-market advancements.
Hugh Scantlebury
Founder & Director of Aqilla
From roots firmly established in the IT revolution of the 1980s working for Kewill Systems plc, Hugh Scantlebury went on to join Systems Union in 1992. As EMEA Channel Sales Director he led a team managing a £30 million market which generated in excess of £11 million pounds worth of net revenue from channels selling integrated financial and business solutions in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. At Sage, working as General Manager for the Corporate and European Division, he launched two new business initiatives focusing on OLAP and e-Business development services. In 2002 Hugh took up the role of managing director for a 3i-backed business, Foundation Systems, which specialised in the supply, implementation and support of integrated financial and business management. This business became a wholly owned subsidiary of Systems Union Group in December 2003, which in turn was subsequently acquired by Infor, a US$2.1 billion corporation backed by Golden Gate Capital in 2006.
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About Aqilla: Aqilla is the developer of web-based accounting solutions designed for medium-sized businesses and organisations.
