Sue Almond

Sue has had a distinguished career in the audit and assurance profession, firmly focussed on the international arena.

Sue has worked both within the Grant Thornton network and externally, re-joining Grant Thornton UK as Head of Assurance in 2015. On 1 July 2018, she was appointed Global Head of Assurance at GTIL.

Sue led the ACCA’s external affairs programme and has worked with global standard-setters and major public affairs stakeholders. She acted as Technical Adviser to an IAASB board member for 4 years and has remained an active member of the IAASB working group on Data Analytics.

Martin Sanders

Martin Sanders is Chief Audit Executive for the European Region of Honda Motor Europe Ltd.

The role heads up the Corporate Audit function providing independent objective assurance of the adequacy of control and management of risk of the £5.2billion European Business

Joined Honda (UK) in 1994 and held senior positions of Head of Sales & Marketing for Honda (UK) Cars, General Manger Honda (UK) and Europe Power Products and for the past 3 years CFO/GM for Honda Motor Europe.

Prior to Honda, he worked for Volvo Cars (UK) as Managing Director of Volvo Finance and before that worked as a worldwide auditor for British Airways PLC.

A Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of England and Wales qualified with Deloitte in the UK. He graduated with a degree in Economics from the University College Cardiff.

Martin is a Trustee and Chairman of Governance of Wooden Spoon which is the national rugby charity for children who are disadvantaged physically, mentally or socially.

He is a proud Welshman, born in Cardiff and is married with three sons.

Philip Shohet

Philip Shohet, Senior Consultant, Foulger Underwood Kato Phil has a unique knowledge of the management and development issues faced by accountancy practices in the current and future marketplace. He gained this from many years as one of the leading practice consultants in the country providing strategic, management, marketing ,growth and merger solutions to firms throughout the UK.

Phil has authored many books and articles, spoken at national and international conferences and seminars, and is frequently asked to comment by the media on issues that affect the accountancy profession.

Steve Maslin

Steve is an audit partner specialising in listed and large private businesses operating in multiple countries and large not for profit entities.

He chaired the Partnership Oversight Board of Grant Thornton UK LLP from 2008 to 2016 and was Head of Assurance from 1999 to 2007.

Steve represents Grant Thornton globally on public policy. He chaired the Global Public Policy Committee (“GPPC”) for 3 years; this committee comprises senior partners of the world’s six largest global audit networks on public policy. As chair, Steve was accountable directly to the Global CEOs of those networks. Prior to his first national role, Steve was managing partner of Grant Thornton’s London satellite offices in West London and London Gatwick between 1992 and 1999.

Outside Grant Thornton, Steve is a member of the audit committee of the Ark Schools Trust, which operates 36 schools in England with 25,000 pupils, and chairs the audit committee of The Gurkha Museum Trust.

Mark Holland

Mark is the managing director of RSM UK’s online services division. The division provides Cloud based payroll and back office accounting services to a broad range of businesses, alongside time and billing and pay and bill services to the recruitment sector. In addition to his continued role in the division, Mark also works with clients in card payments sector and the recruitment sector.

On qualifying as a Chartered Accountant, Mark specialised in advising businesses on Management Information and Information Technology systems. Over the last 20 years he has advised a range of businesses and organisations on all aspects of their use of IT and management information systems. Mark founded RSM UK’s online services division in 2006. In 2008 the division acquired software house IP 4 Limited and in 2015 payroll services company employer services limited.

Mark is a regular judge for the British Accountancy Awards, previously the Accountancy Age Awards.

Martin Atkins

Martin is the lead partner for advisory services in the London office of Menzies. He advises businesses and their owners in the areas of strategic planning, profit improvement, success and exit planning, outsourced accounting, taxation, HR and accounting system reviews.

He also heads up the firm’s Business Services sector focusing on advertising & media, recruitment, legal and financial services clients.

Prior to Menzies, he was the managing partner of an independent accounting practice which gave him direct experience of the unparalleled dynamics and challenges involved in running your own business. As well as being a Chartered Accountant, he is also a Chartered Tax Adviser and licenced insolvency practitioner.

Mark Lee

John Morris

John is a Partner at Smith & Williamson, where he leads their Scale-Up programme: an integrated suite of solutions, expertise and support, designed to help businesses scale quickly.

John helps ambitious business founders, owner-managers and senior management teams achieve their personal financial goals, as well as the commercials objectives of the companies they run – adding value to private clients and their business interests. He has spent 15 years providing strategy and consulting advice to a variety of businesses in a diverse range of sectors, including management consulting, business process outsourcing, IT services and manufacturing.

Graham Lamont

Robert Stenhouse

Stuart Lisle

Erica Ingham

Glenn Collins

Glenn Collins is Head of Technical Advisory at ACCA. He is responsible for advice and support to ACCA members on a range of issues, including audit, financial reporting, business and credit advice, taxation, company and business law, ethics, export and access to finance.

A Fellow of ACCA, Glenn Collins spent 16 years in public practice, specialising in audit and business advice, before joining ACCA where he has worked for over 19 years.

Alongside providing advice to finance professionals, Glenn Collins also liaises closely with UK government departments, Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs, BEIS, Department for International trade and also agencies like the Charity Commission and Pensions Regulator. He also leads ACCA’s support for small and medium practitioners and is a member of numerous small business, tax and charity groups.

William Benson

Michael Kreeft

Michael Kreeft is Chief Financial Officer of BMW Group (UK) Limited which is BMW Group’s fourth-largest sales company in the world with a turnover of £5.6bn. He took up this position in 2016 and he is responsible for leading the competencies of finance, purchasing, human resources, strategy and compliance. He also represents the company on the CBI’s Economic Growth Board.

Michael joined BMW Group in 1986 and since then has held a number of international finance and financial services positions based in the Netherlands, Germany, the UK, and France.

Immediately prior to his current role, he spent four years as Chief Executive Officer of BMW Group’s French financial services subsidiary, BMW Finance SNC and before that as CEO for BMW Group financial services in the Netherlands, with responsibility for BMW, MINI and Alphera brands in both markets. While based in the Netherlands, he also gained further automotive experience as the supervisory board member for BMW’s wholly-owned dealer company and as the BMW representative in the Dutch motor trade and local business associations. In 2000, his career took him to the UK for the first time where he was Finance Director for BMW Services UK. During a six-year period at the BMW Group’s headquarters in Munich, he also held a variety of positions in the financial planning, capital markets and group accounting functions.

Michael is married with two children and his hobbies include long distance running, speed ice skating, skiing, cycling and golf.

David Stevens