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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Partner operating in the Accounting space. If you think a Partner 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.
James Gregson
Partner, Strategy & Operations Consulting of Deloitte
James leads Deloitte’s Life Sciences Consulting practice in the UK and is a member of their Life Sciences Supply Chain Team. James has extensive experience of complex Procurement Transformation, Supply Chain Strategy, Cost Reduction, Operating Model Optimisation, Outsourcing, Global Business Services, and Technology Implementation working with some of the largest global pharmaceutical businesses and across many other sectors. Over the course of his 20+ year career James has been a leader in Industry, Consulting and Outsourcing, and as well as his procurement heritage has significant Supply Chain and Operational Transformation experience.
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About Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Scott Campbell
Partner of Deloitte
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About Deloitte, Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Punit Bhatia
Partner of Deloitte
Punit Bhatia is a Partner at Deloitte and leads their Shared Services, BPO and Global Business Services practice. Punit is a specialist in this area with 18 years of consulting experience gained in a number of different industries including Energy, Consumer Goods and Financial Services. In the last few years, Punit has led some of the largest and most complex Global Business Services, Shared Services and BPO engagements in the industry. His experience spans the full life cycle from developing strategy , designing solutions, and implementing them. He has been recognised by clients as bringing a thoughtful approach that focussed on long term value for all stakeholders. Punit’s work in the Shared Services and Outsourcing industry has included Business Processes as well as IT.
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About Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Gurpreet Johal
Partner of Deloitte
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About Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Dan McNamara
Partner of Deloitte
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About Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
James O’Riordan
Senior Partner and UK Financial Services Leader of Deloitte
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About Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Alexander Lakhanpal
Partner of Deloitte
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About Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
David Rush
Partner specialising in Financial Services, in particular Insurance of Deloitte
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About Deloitte, Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Rick Cudworth
Partner of Deloitte
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About Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Marian Bloodworth
Partner, Employment of Deloitte
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About Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Richard Coombes
Partner of Deloitte
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About Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Richard Coombes
Partner of Deloitte
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About Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Ian Meadows
Associate Partner of Ernst & Young
Ian Meadows is an Associate Partner in Insurance at EY based in London. Ian leads Specialty Insurance Technology and is a director of the Insurwave Joint Venture. His current focus is to support the modernisation efforts across London and into international markets.
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About Ernst & Young: Ernst & Young is a provider of assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services.
Mark Brockway
Corporate Finance Associate Partner of Ernst & Young
Mark Brockway served as Finance Director at BWB Consulting Ltd.Brockway served as a Senior Member of Corporate Finance Team at Corven Group. He served at Grant Thornton Corporate Finance, LLC, KPMG Corporate Finance, and BDO Stoy Hayward Corporate Finance. Brockway serves as a Director of Ernst & Young LLP.
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About Ernst & Young, Ernst & Young: Ernst & Young is a provider of assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services.
Laurence Buchanan
Partner of Ernst & Young
Laurence is a Partner within EY’s Advisory business and leads Digital for the EMEIA region. He works with clients to help them understand and respond to the opportunities and threats posed by disruptive technology. He has worked across a wide variety of industry sectors and client projects including: – Launching the British & Irish Lions fan app – Interim head of CRM & Digital Marketing / Sales / Service for a FTSE-100 UK Telco / Media company, helping to launch a digital start-up streaming movies business – Customer experience design and multi channel strategy for a global pharma company, a global luxury Retailer and a Russian Consumer Electronics Retailer – Social Media analytics and target operating model design for a global Automotive company, a UAE-based conglomerate and a global pharma company – B2B sales force effectiveness for an Australian Consumer Products / Pharma company and a FTSE 100 software company – Customer experience design and digital strategy for a UAE central government department – Digital Entrepreneurship policy framework for the European Commission Laurence’ credentials speak for themselves. With a decade of experience at SAP, where he was EMEA Vice President for CRM and 8 years in Consulting, he is a recognised authority and evangelist on Digital Transformation, Customer Experience and CRM.
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About Ernst & Young: Ernst & Young is a provider of assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services.
Jacqueline Kernot
Partner of Ernst & Young
Jacqui is a senior Cyber Security, and Risk Management professional with over 20 years experience in consulting, startup and MSP management. Jacqui has just left Telstra where she grew and managed a $150M+ security services business. She won several large contracts between $10 – $50M during her four years there, and built the business across geographies from much lower revenues. Jacqui has dealt with government, federal government, enterprise, carrier and FSI clients within Australia and the UK. She has excellent relationships with C level executives in risk and security across both countries. Jacqui is regularly asked to present on cyber and risk at various conferences globally and in Australia. During SIBOS this year she was asked to join the debate to speak on whether a cyber 9/11 was imminent, with other experts from several countries. She has completed several podcasts and articles on security and risk and is regularly quoted in the media on both security and risk and diversity and inclusion, subjects she is passionate about. Jacqui is a former Intelligence officer with the ADF, and has completed Special Forces Planning, NATO engagement and Information Operations, as well as technical courses required for rank including ROAC. Her roles included support to 6 Brigade, 1 Commando Regiment, SOCOM and the 1st Intelligence Battalion.
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About Ernst & Young: Ernst & Young is a provider of assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services.
Richard Goold
Partner, Head of Fast Growth (UK & Ireland) & Global Head of Tech Sector – Law of Ernst & Young
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About Ernst & Young: Ernst & Young is a provider of assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services.
Andy Baldwin
EMEIA Area Managing Partner of Ernst & Young
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About Ernst & Young: Ernst & Young is a provider of assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services.
Ashley Steel
Partner of KPMG International Limited
Ashley Steel is a former Vice Chairman at KPMG and was Global Chair for its transport, leisure and logistics practice until her retirement from the firm in September 2014. Ashley Steel has significant international experience and has advised numerous FTSE and Fortune 500 boards. Her other sector experience includes professional services, technology, media, business services and healthcare. Ashley Steel is currently a Non-Executive Director of the Civil Aviation Authority and serves on the International Business Advisory Board at British Airways. She is also Special Adviser to a global aviation technology company owned by Warburg Pincus and an Independent Non-Executive Director to global law firm, Ince & Co. Ashley has a PhD in Management from Henley Business School.
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About KPMG International Limited: KPMG is a network of independent member firms offering audit, tax and advisory services.
Joe Cassidy
Partner of KPMG International Limited
Joe Cassidy is the Partner at KPMG
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About KPMG International Limited: KPMG is a network of independent member firms offering audit, tax and advisory services.
Murray Raisbeck
Partner of KPMG International Limited
Murray is a Partner within KPMG’s FS practice. He has extensive FS audit and advisory experience. An auditor by background, Murray joined KPMG in 1999 and became a partner in 2011. Murray works with global financial services clients in the insurance, asset management and wealth management industries. As a result of all of the change underway in the sector Murray has been involved in working with clients that are dealing with evolving financial regulation (Solvency II and RDR being examples), changing technology (move to cloud based solutions and telematics being examples), societal changes (demands of an ageing population being an example), and more recently the impact of political risk on firms within the sector (recent pension reforms being an example). One current area of focus for Murray is the UK Motor insurance market. Murray is the audit partner for three of the UK’s market leading motor insurers and leading ‘usage based insurance’ (UBI) businesses. He is also frequently involved in discussions with industry bodies and a variety of firms developing their UBI strategy. He frequently comments on UBI developments in the press. Murray’s advisory experience includes finance change and regulatory programmes, Sarbanes Oxley implementation projects, accounting advice on group reconstructions, Part VII transfers, and a variety of transactions. His transaction experience includes ‘buy-side’ deal evaluation, due diligence, transaction regulatory and accounting support, IPO readiness services and synergies work.
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About KPMG International Limited: KPMG is a network of independent member firms offering audit, tax and advisory services.
Gerry Lagerberg
Retired PwC Partner ( Home ) of PwC
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About PwC: PricewaterhouseCoopers is an accounting firm that provides tax, HR, transactions, performance improvement, and crisis management services.
Warwick Hunt
Managing Partner and Chief Operating Officer of PwC
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About PwC: PricewaterhouseCoopers is an accounting firm that provides tax, HR, transactions, performance improvement, and crisis management services.
Tom Adams
Partner, Experience Consulting Leader of PwC
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About PwC: PricewaterhouseCoopers is an accounting firm that provides tax, HR, transactions, performance improvement, and crisis management services.
Colin Slater
Partner of PwC
Colin is a Cyber security Partner in our Cyber Threat Operations function in the UK leading the build out of our Managed Detection and Response service. Colin has a diverse technology & business background including the establishment of several startups including a large security managed service (DMZGlobal) which was sold to Telstra in 2005. Prior to this Colin has worked in software development in the oil & gas sector, established a computer forensics and investigations business and spent time previously working for PwC on the electronic land titles system in New Zealand. Colin founded another company in 2005 which was acquired by PwC in 2011 and formed the nucleus of the Cyber centre of excellence.
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About PwC: PricewaterhouseCoopers is an accounting firm that provides tax, HR, transactions, performance improvement, and crisis management services.
Steve Davies
Partner of PwC
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About PwC: PricewaterhouseCoopers is an accounting firm that provides tax, HR, transactions, performance improvement, and crisis management services.
Grant Waterfall
Partner, EMEA Cybersecurity & Privacy leader of PwC
Grant Waterfall is a Partner responsible for PwC’s EMEA Cybersecurity and Privacy business and is the Global Cybersecurity and Privacy co-leader.
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About PwC: PricewaterhouseCoopers is an accounting firm that provides tax, HR, transactions, performance improvement, and crisis management services.
Pauline Campbell
Partner of PwC
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About PwC: PricewaterhouseCoopers is an accounting firm that provides tax, HR, transactions, performance improvement, and crisis management services.
Sue Rissbrook
Partner, Head of Retail of PwC
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Richard Horne
Partner of PwC
Richard is the Partner for PwC UK, responsible for developing and delivering its range of Cyber Security services.
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About PwC: PricewaterhouseCoopers is an accounting firm that provides tax, HR, transactions, performance improvement, and crisis management services.
Jonathon Howe
Partner of PwC
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About PwC: PricewaterhouseCoopers is an accounting firm that provides tax, HR, transactions, performance improvement, and crisis management services.
Joel Segal
Partner & Chairman of PwC South Africa
Joel started his career in South Africa and joined PwC in 2009 as a partner. During his career in the firm, he has served as strategic advisor to executive boards of multinationals across the FTSE100 and Fortune500 equivalents, helping them operate effectively by transforming their global business models. He has over 15 years’ experience across multiple industries, with a strong focus on consumer, retail, manufacturing and industrial products. He has held various senior leadership roles and remains a global relationship and advisory partner in the firm. Joel currently sits as Chair of the UK firm’s Africa Business Group with a focus on helping companies enter and operate effectively in the emerging markets of sub-Saharan Africa. He has lived and worked in Africa, US and UK helping clients and their senior executives in over 20 countries.
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About PwC South Africa: PwC South Africa provides industry-focused assurance, advisory, and tax services to public, private, and government clients.
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.
Oliver Atkinson
Partner of Atkinsons Chartered Accountants
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Brian Morgan
Business and Partner Growth Director of Rimilia
Brian Morgan, Rimilia Business Development Director Brian has over 20 years’ experience in managing credit departments including Debt Management, Risk Management and the full Order to Cash Process. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Credit Management (CICM), a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and a Chartered Manager with CMI. Brian has won multiple awards and gained Centre of Excellence for his digital transformation of the finance function in large enterprises.
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About Rimilia: Rimilia creates software finance people love by enabling tight integration between the front and back office.
Richard Karmel
Partner and Head of Global Human Rights of Mazars
Richard Karmel is responsible for the Mazars’ award winning social performance and human rights reporting line. He has operated as a Partner and Director throughout his working career and, having worked in Paris, France for two years, has a valuable European perspective on accountancy, tax, and company law practises. He is a specialist in cross-border transactions and has provided invaluable advice for both overseas companies investing in the UK and companies investing in Europe. Richard has recently advised multi-national companies on their understanding of the human rights impacts of their operations on their workers, suppliers and communities. This resulted in recommendations being made to change their policies, processes and controls so as to reduce the risks of human rights abuses arising in the future.
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About Mazars: Mazars is an international, integrated and independent organisation, specialising in audit, accountancy, tax, legal and advisory services.
Richard Karmel
Partner and Head of Global Human Rights of Mazars
Richard Karmel is responsible for the Mazars’ award winning social performance and human rights reporting line. He has operated as a Partner and Director throughout his working career and, having worked in Paris, France for two years, has a valuable European perspective on accountancy, tax, and company law practises. He is a specialist in cross-border transactions and has provided invaluable advice for both overseas companies investing in the UK and companies investing in Europe. Richard has recently advised multi-national companies on their understanding of the human rights impacts of their operations on their workers, suppliers and communities. This resulted in recommendations being made to change their policies, processes and controls so as to reduce the risks of human rights abuses arising in the future.
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About Mazars: Mazars is an international, integrated and independent organisation, specialising in audit, accountancy, tax, legal and advisory services.
Rob Carter
Associate Partner, Wealth and Asset Management of KPMG UK
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About KPMG UK: KPMG UK is a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services.
Gabriel Parrish
Senior Partner of Fitzgerald & Law
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About Fitzgerald & Law: Global expansion specialist, F&L is the single source for all services a company needs to manage the essential components of a business.
Mike Thornton
Leeds Office Managing Partner, National Head of Manufacturing and Corporate Audit Partner of RSM UK Group
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About RSM UK Group: RSM UK is the Audit, tax and consulting firm.
Mark Hodges
Tax Partner of Horizon Tax & Accounting LLC
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About Horizon Tax & Accounting LLC, PTC: Horizon Tax and Accounting services is a bookkeeping, Financial analysis, notary public, payroll services, sale tax and tax preparation.
