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This list showcases the top United Kingdom 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.
Martin Bowman
Director, Aviation Digital Asset 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.
Derek Gordon
Cyber Security Director of PwC
Derek heads up the Identity and Access Management business at PwC UK. Derek holds over 20 years experience in IT Security across multiple business sectors including financial services, technology, retail, health and public sector. Derek joined PwC in Jan 2016, through the acquisition of Praxism, an Identity and Access Management Solution provider. As Praxism’s founder and CTO, Derek led many large enterprise Identity Management and Access Governance projects for major muiti-national Clients across Europe and Africa. Previous roles include working as an IAM Senior Solutions Architect for Novell, leading the EMEA architecture practice and interfacing with product management, as well as other Consultancy roles with other system integrator’s in the UK.
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About Praxism, PwC: PricewaterhouseCoopers is an accounting firm that provides tax, HR, transactions, performance improvement, and crisis management services.
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.
Adam Maurice
Co-Founder and Director of Fusion Consulting
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About Fusion Consulting: Fusion is a multi-disciplinary consulting firm that offers end-to-end solutions for private individuals and fast growth businesses.
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.
Ross Webster
Founder & Director of BrightPay – Payroll Software
Ross is a highly competent software architect, programmer, graphic designer and user experience specialist. With a passion for innovation, Ross excels at creating software applications that solve real-world problems, simplify the complex, and delight customers.
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About BrightPay – Payroll Software, Thesaurus Software: BrightPay offers a payroll software package for payroll managements.
Rob Janering
VAT Director – Crowe UK of Crowe LLP
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About Crowe LLP: Crowe LLP is a public accounting, consulting, and technology firm.
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.
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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Michael Herepath
Director-Life Sciences of Guidehouse
An experienced market access specialist offering a valuable set of capabilities gained from a career spanning market access and pricing strategy consultancy, global and UK affiliate-level pharma market access leadership roles, and as a senior payer in hospital pharmacy director and healthcare executive roles. With comprehensive knowledge and experience of market access dynamics, and of healthcare systems and bio-pharmaceutical policy affairs across the UK, Europe, the US, and the key emerging markets of Asia Pacific and Latin America, has an excellent track record in working with cross-functional global, regional and affiliate teams to deliver optimal solutions through productive collaborations with external stakeholders, while providing leadership, direction, development and ongoing motivation to colleagues. Qualified as a clinical pharmacist, and with pharma, consultancy, payer and clinical pharmacy experience in all key therapy areas, has worked with a large range of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, as well as the leading medical technology companies. Trained and experienced in the application of health economic evidence in market access, and also trained in social research methodology, is a specialist in the design, development and delivery of pharmaceutical market access and pricing strategies who is able to apply valued knowledge, skills, experiences, contacts and network.
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About Guidehouse: Guidehouse is a global provider of consulting services with a focus on driving cross-market advancements.
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.
Mandy Reynolds
Director of Marketing of Francis Clark
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About Francis Clark: PKF Francis Clark is enthusiastic about the consumer is fundamental to all that consistently seeks to meet their standards.
Caroline Keenan
Tax Director of ASM Chartered Accountants
Caroline graduated from The Queen’s University of Belfast in 1988 with an Honours Degree in Economics. Prior to joining Coopers & Lybrand, Birmingham in 1989 she graduated from the Midland Bank Plc Group’s Accelerated Management Trainee Graduate Scheme, being placed in the top 5. She qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1992, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Caroline joined ASM Belfast in November 2010 as Head of Tax, after a 21 year career at Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP, involving working across Audit, Corporate Finance and Tax, in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. She has considerable experience in delivering a range of taxation services to clients across many sectors and has particular expertise in dealing with Shareholder and Owner–Managed Business Taxation Matters, Corporate Reconstructions, Inward Investment Companies, and Research & Development Tax Relief.
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About ASM Chartered Accountants: ASM Chartered Accountants is a Chartered Accountant firm.
Ian Finnegan
Director & Insolvency Practitioner of ASM Chartered Accountants
Ian graduated from the University of Ulster with an Honours Degree in Accounting and a Masters Degree in Accounting and Finance in 1992. He joined O’Hare Chartered Accountants in Newry where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1996. Ian was appointed a partner in the renamed O’Hare Finnegan firm in 2001. O’Hare Finnegan joined the ASM Group in 2009. In 2003 Ian became a Licensed Insolvency Practitioner and this remains his area of special interest and expertise. Ian is based mainly in the Newry office where he undertakes all aspects of general practice alongside his Insolvency and Corporate Recovery role.
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About ASM Chartered Accountants: ASM Chartered Accountants is a Chartered Accountant firm.
Brian Clerkin
Director of ASM Chartered Accountants
Brian graduated from The Queen’s University of Belfast in 1997 with an Honours Degree in Finance. Brian joined ASM in July 1997 and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2001, having been placed in the top ten in Ireland in each of his professional examinations. A qualified Internal Auditor (MIIA), Brian specialises in Forensic Accounting and Internal Audit. Brian heads up the firm’s Internal Audit Division. He is the Head of Internal Audit for a range of well known public sector organisations.
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About ASM Chartered Accountants: ASM Chartered Accountants is a Chartered Accountant firm.
Michael Nixon
Director of ASM Chartered Accountants
Michael, graduated from The Queen’s University of Belfast with a First Class Honours Degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1984. Michael trained with Price Waterhouse and qualified as a chartered accountant in 1987 achieving second place in Ireland in his Final Admitting Examination. Post qualification, Michael spent 3 years in the Melbourne office of Price Waterhouse as a manager in the Corporate Services department where he was responsible for providing advice to a wide range of private and public bodies. Michael joined ASM in July 2000 having spent 7 years as group finance director in a manufacturing environment where he was responsible for the finance function of a group of 5 companies with a turnover of £18m. Michael specialises in providing corporate finance and consulting advice to a range of public and private sector clients.
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About ASM Chartered Accountants: ASM Chartered Accountants is a Chartered Accountant firm.
Alistair Cooke
Director of ASM Chartered Accountants
Alistair qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1995 having previously completed the Accounting Technician exams and was placed 2nd in Ireland in his Professional Two examinations. Since joining ASM in 1999 Alistair has been responsible for providing audit, accounting, taxation and consultancy services to a range of private and public sector clients from the firm’s Dungannon office. Alistair has also an active role in the provision of IT accounting solutions to a number of clients.
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About ASM Chartered Accountants: ASM Chartered Accountants is a Chartered Accountant firm.
Ronan McGuirk
Tax Director of ASM Chartered Accountants
Ronan joined O’Hare Chartered Accountants in 1998 and qualified as an Accounting Technician in 2000. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2004 and a Chartered Tax Advisor in 2007. In 2008, Ronan was appointed a Director of O’Hare Finnegan which joined the ASM Group in 2009. Ronan is principally involved in providing tax compliance and tax planning services (with a strong emphasis on cross border issues) for clients in our Newry, Dundalk and Dublin offices. He also advises a number of Audit and Accounts clients.
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About ASM Chartered Accountants: ASM Chartered Accountants is a Chartered Accountant firm.
Nicola Niblock
Director of ASM Chartered Accountants
Nicola graduated from The Queen’s University of Belfast in 1986 with an Honours Degree in Accountancy and Economics. Nicola then completed the Post Graduate Diploma in Accounting at The Queen’s University of Belfast. In 1987, Nicola commenced her training contract with Price Waterhouse, Belfast and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1990. Nicola joined ASM in 1998. Since joining the firm, Nicola has been instrumental in developing the Forensic Accounting department.
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About ASM Chartered Accountants: ASM Chartered Accountants is a Chartered Accountant firm.
Mark McNeill
Director of ASM Chartered Accountants
Mark is a Director with ASM. He graduated from The Queen’s University of Belfast in 1991 with a BSc Honours degree in Accounting and completed the Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting at Queen’s University of Belfast in 1992. He trained with Fitch Chartered Accountants in Belfast and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1995, and as a Chartered Tax Adviser in 1997. Mark moved to PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in April 2007 before joining ASM in April 2009. Mark is principally involved in the provision of audit and tax compliance services to the Mid Ulster based clients, with a strong focus on the implementation of tax planning strategies for owner managed businesses.
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About ASM Chartered Accountants: ASM Chartered Accountants is a Chartered Accountant firm.
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.
Colin Christianson
Director & Chief Product Architect of Aqilla
His early career was spent working for Smiths Industries where he was responsible for the implementation of a variety of mainframe and mini-computer systems covering manufacturing, distribution, accounting, and payroll. After a spell as a senior consultant with Hoskyns, Colin joined Systems Union as a founding member and director of R&D, leading the development of SunSystems, the mid-market accounting systems leader, from its early inception in the early eighties. In 1999, Colin recognised that solutions based on emerging web technologies offered an exciting new opportunity and left to setup ncSoft to develop a set of web based applications covering time recording, expense management, and procurement. In 2004, Infor (Systems Union) purchased ncSoft and now offers these products as part of their SunSystems procurement and productivity portfolio of products.
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About Aqilla: Aqilla is the developer of web-based accounting solutions designed for medium-sized businesses and organisations.
Dean Weale
Business Services Director of Azets
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About Azets: Azets provides services such as tax, payroll, accounting, advisory, audit, business, and assurance.
Paul Staniforth
Techincal Director of CreditForce
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About CreditForce: CreditForce’s mission is to provide the finest credit and collections management systems and contract-to-cash solutions.
Caroline Lyons
Director of Client Services of CreditForce
Caroline has a wealth of international experience gained in Hong Kong, Australia and the UK, working with some of the world’s leading Branding Consultancies such as Inaria, Interbrand, and Round. She is helping the company bring its exciting story to the wider world.
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About CreditForce: CreditForce’s mission is to provide the finest credit and collections management systems and contract-to-cash solutions.
Paul Meacher
Client Director of Fiander Tovell
Paul has been a Client Director at Fiander Tovell since 1990 after initially training with the firm and gaining audit experience at one of the big four accountancy practices. Paul leads the audit services at Fiander Tovell. Paul’s background is with owner-managed businesses and assisting with the development of these businesses through profitable growth supported by regular and reliable business information. His experience in these areas is particularly helpful for businesses looking to expand through acquisitions and to carry out due diligence on prospective targets. Paul likes to develop a detailed understanding of his clients businesses to provide relevant and timely advise on taxation, accounting and strategic issues that assist in the owner-managers in their decision making process.
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About Fiander Tovell: Fiander Tovell specialise in providing proactive, value-for-money accountancy services to privately-owned businesses and individuals.
Andy Jay
Managing Director of Fiander Tovell
Andy joined Fiander Tovell in June 2010 becoming a Director in April 2012. He qualified with a local independent firm of Chartered Accountants in 2003 and then moved to a big four firm as audit manager, before arriving at Fiander Tovell. He has significant experience providing audit, accountancy and transaction related services to clients ranging from small, owner-managed businesses to large, multi-national groups.
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About Fiander Tovell: Fiander Tovell specialise in providing proactive, value-for-money accountancy services to privately-owned businesses and individuals.
Cathy Revis
Director & Head of Tax and Transaction Support of Fiander Tovell
Cathy joined Fiander Tovell in 1992. She has particular expertise in tax planning for businesses and individuals, structuring for growing businesses and succession, exit and retirement planning. She is also experienced in reorganisations, mergers and acquisitions and business sales and enjoys the constant variety and challenges involved in assisting business owners from all industry sectors. Cathy is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and the Chartered Institute of Taxation.
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About Fiander Tovell: Fiander Tovell specialise in providing proactive, value-for-money accountancy services to privately-owned businesses and individuals.
Philip Eagle
Tax Director of Hallidays
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About CapitalStackers, Hallidays: Hallidays is a business development and accounting service company.
Chris Towner
Director of Chatham Financial Corp
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About Chatham Financial Corp: Independent financial firm, bringing expert advisory and technology solutions to global debt and derivatives markets.
